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[pips4bucks]

Anyone know if the story behind this one is valid.

Subject: Fw: Colorado new Pope and Young record bull.....

Shot in Colorado. Private land (no fence). 459 lb. gross weight. Will be the new Pope & Young record bull Elk. Who said there wasn't any "big" elk in Colorado!!!!!!!!! And he got it with an arrow.

It's a beauty of a bull!  Ya just never know for sure about the story behind it unless you know the guy who shot it....

[Bob33]

Check Boone & Crockett Trophy Watch for stuff like this.  They're usually pretty complete.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news#watch2C6564DD-B741-4823-9964-2C8AD7D1BC76

This great bull has been flying around the Internet for quite sometime under the heading, New P&Y World's Record, Idaho, and Colorado. Here's the real story.

This bull was entered into B&C records on a Colorado elk tag with an entry score of 405-1/8 and has been rejected.

The Boone and Crockett Club's records department, with cooperation from a B&C Official Measurer from Colorado and Colorado Division of Wildlife determined that this bull was taken on a game preserve in Idaho in 2010.

The same hunter attempted to enter another bull scoring 402-7/8 reported to having come from the same ranch in Colorado in 2009. This bull has also been rejected.

[agchawk]

I wonder if he was sighted for filing a false tag? Last I had heard, it was illegal to use a tag from one state on an animal taken in another.

I'd really like to know what kind of punishment this idiot received.

[agchawk]

Nevermind...just went and saw the rest of the post:

The Boone and Crockett Records Program, since its inception in 1906, does not accept or recognize trophies raised for the purpose of shooting on game farms, preserves, or within escape-proof enclosures.

No game laws were broken and no changes have been filed. It is not against the law to fraudulently attempt to enter trophies into the records book, just not smart.

  He's still an idiot though!

[wsucowboy]

  idiot. Nice bull but I'd rather take a cow on public land than a 400 inch bull on game farm 

[buck man]

idiot. Nice bull but I'd rather take a cow on public land than a 400 inch bull on game farm 

[Curly]

What a doofus!  

I was wondering how a guy with camo that bad could get within bow range of a bull that size...............game farm explains it.

[pips4bucks]

Check Boone & Crockett Trophy Watch for stuff like this.  They're usually pretty complete.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news#watch2C6564DD-B741-4823-9964-2C8AD7D1BC76

This great bull has been flying around the Internet for quite sometime under the heading, New P&Y World's Record, Idaho, and Colorado. Here's the real story.

This bull was entered into B&C records on a Colorado elk tag with an entry score of 405-1/8 and has been rejected.

The Boone and Crockett Club's records department, with cooperation from a B&C Official Measurer from Colorado and Colorado Division of Wildlife determined that this bull was taken on a game preserve in Idaho in 2010.

The same hunter attempted to enter another bull scoring 402-7/8 reported to having come from the same ranch in Colorado in 2009. This bull has also been rejected.

Thanks Bob33!

[funkster]

What a doofus! 

I was wondering how a guy with camo that bad could get within bow range of a bull that size...............game farm explains it.

That is sitka camo,some of the best stuff on the market 

[400out]

never the less great bull! I would take the opportunity to shot that bull! Wouldn't try and B&C it though!

[dirty24d]

What a doofus! 

I was wondering how a guy with camo that bad could get within bow range of a bull that size...............game farm explains it.

That is sitka camo,some of the best stuff on the market 

LOL.. Maybe if your hunting out of rockpiles, that guy stands out like a sore thumb in that area.. 

[sakoshooter]

Thanx for clarifying Bob.

[atfulldraw]

 

idiot. Nice bull but I'd rather take a cow on public land than a 400 inch bull on game farm 

[funkster]

What a doofus! 

I was wondering how a guy with camo that bad could get within bow range of a bull that size...............game farm explains it.

That is sitka camo,some of the best stuff on the market 

LOL.. Maybe if your hunting out of rockpiles, that guy stands out like a sore thumb in that area.. 

It is designed for ungulate eyes not humans. Thats what they say anyways!

[fair-chase]

Is it just me or does the guys head look abnormally small in the first pic and his arms abnormally long in the last pic? Is he a shape shifting freak of nature? No doubt that's a large bull, but photography has regressed over the last couple of years when it has to do with game animals. That's long arming at it's best there people.