Spider Bull Grosses over 500!!!

[backwoods_boy]

Yeah good point guys.....
but think about it from this perspective...
it is pretty cool to see the animal we all love to hunt get to be that size...
reguardless of where or how it was harvested.
am i wrong??

[Bobm]

I have to wonder how it got to be that size.  Are there other genetic monsters like it in the area?   I have my doubts.

[BC CHASER]

I have to wonder how it got to be that size.  Are there other genetic monsters like it in the area?   I have my doubts.

I did some research on him yesterday and the Utah fish and wildlife could not even find him.  I guess a couple of hunters found him either this year or last.  I guess he spent quite a bit of time on private land as well.  You think previous years sheds would have been found.  Goes to show you never know whats out there!

[bucklucky]

Just looked out the back window and there was a 550 bull standing in my back yard!

[backwoods_boy]

  HA HA HA HA
silly guy!!

[Bobm]

he spent quite a bit of time on private land as well

And that is what makes me wonder what he ate or what he was fed.

Outfitters are ruining our sport.

[BC CHASER]

Just looked out the back window and there was a 550 bull standing in my back yard!

Yeah, 550 lbs!

[bow4elk]

Sorry, but I’m SO FAR the other way on these "team hunts".  I’ll take raghorns with my recurve the rest of my life before I’d participate in something like this.  I don't call it hunting. Slipping an arrow in a coastal *censored* with my homemade bow would feed my soul like nothing else.  Having a literal team of monkeys out there with airplanes, radios, etc. keeping tabs on a bull is no different than a high fence hunt in my mind.  Really.  Does that bull really have a fair chance?  Is this really fair chase hunting?  In my mind, fair chase is more than just “free range” hunting…it’s doing if fairly putting the advantage in the animal’s favor.

The only good thing is the revenue it brings the game depts (governor tags), but on the flipside, if this is what the voting public see as “hunting”, then I’m not sure it helps at all.

Just my  , so fire away....

[Bobm]

I'm with ya bow4elk.

[NoBark]

I will celebrate a fantastic animal that not only grew so large, but also out witted a very large number of 'guides' for almost the entire hunting season.

As for those who tried to sit on him for the shooter, no comment.

hunting shows and even the internet all have a hand in changing hunting from what it used to be into a friggen compitition to see who can spend the most to shoot the biggest.


I hate that.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Incredible animal.

Those who think this is a cool way for a world class animal to die, probably don't understand the subtle differences between forcible rape and seduction either.  Neither one detracts from the target's qualities, but one should be a source of shame, not satisfaction.

I as a hunter am ashamed, embarassed and offended, that this is increasingly how nonhunters perceive hunters.  Team Mossback, the Blue Mts posse, and other teams of hired exterminators who take their filthy compensation to preclude any possible resemblance to fair chase, are a worse threat to our American hunting tradition than any antihunter groups.

And please don't tell me how much they contribute to conservation.  If I sell meth to school kids, but donate the proceeds to my favorite charity, that doesn't justify the means.  I'd far rather have these lazy, amoral, wealthy (your favorite expletive here) heroically killing trophy exotic livestock in high-fenced paddocks, than out assassinating the finest specimens of American big game under the guise of hunting.  

Auction tags turn wildlife departments into pimps, prostituting out our resources for a tiny fraction of their budgets.  This practice is an abomination.

[Bobm]

Auction tags turn wildlife departments into pimps, prostituting out our resources for a tiny fraction of their budgets.  This practice is an abomination.
   

Agreed 100% 

[backwoods_boy]

Incredible animal.

Those who think this is a cool way for a world class animal to die, probably don't understand the subtle differences between forcible rape and seduction either.  Neither one detracts from the target's qualities, but one should be a source of shame, not satisfaction.

I as a hunter am ashamed, embarassed and offended, that this is increasingly how nonhunters perceive hunters.  Team Mossback, the Blue Mts posse, and other teams of hired exterminators who take their filthy compensation to preclude any possible resemblance to fair chase, are a worse threat to our American hunting tradition than any antihunter groups.

And please don't tell me how much they contribute to conservation.  If I sell meth to school kids, but donate the proceeds to my favorite charity, that doesn't justify the means.  I'd far rather have these lazy, amoral, wealthy (your favorite expletive here) heroically killing trophy exotic livestock in high-fenced paddocks, than out assassinating the finest specimens of American big game under the guise of hunting.  

Auction tags turn wildlife departments into pimps, prostituting out our resources for a tiny fraction of their budgets.  This practice is an abomination.
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[provider]

Thank God.  Just when I had lost almost all hope...  I read these posts and see there are at least a few of us left who get it.

Nice job DOUBLELUNG!

[TheKid#10]

Amen DOUBLELUNG, Amen!   

KID