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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 24, 2008 21:02:46 GMT -5
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Mar 25, 2008 5:53:03 GMT -5
What a beast!!!!!!!!
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Post by swilk on Mar 25, 2008 6:54:16 GMT -5
I sure would like to know the real story behind that ...........
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Post by Sleazy E on Mar 25, 2008 7:46:53 GMT -5
that is a hoss..... Would love to see something like that in my sights.
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Post by Sasquatch on Mar 25, 2008 9:19:47 GMT -5
Since Rompola's biggest critics had financial motivation to discredit him, there will always be room for debate on this one.
Personally, I think it would be pretty hard to kill a buck, cut it's real antlers off, somehow fix a new set of massive, fake antlers in their place, stitch up the head and make it look like anything less than a horror show, all before the deer swelled up like a balloon. All this before the deer was seen and examined by several experienced hunters. Quite a hoax.
That said, he coud have shut them all up and made 10,000 just by having the deer x-rayed.
A mystery for the ages.
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Post by swilk on Mar 25, 2008 9:37:37 GMT -5
I agree.
It would have been a task worthy of Houdini to pull it off ....... but the question will always remain "Why didnt he just do what was necessary to prove his critics wrong?"
I have my own theory: There are some men left who really dont give a dang what anyone else thinks and they dont feel the need to prove anything to anybody. Mitch is possibly one such man ........
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 25, 2008 9:41:22 GMT -5
I have to tell you the truth in this situation just doesn't matter to me.
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Post by swilk on Mar 25, 2008 10:11:43 GMT -5
I have to tell you the truth in this situation just doesn't matter to me. aaww come on .... not even a little bit? |
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 25, 2008 10:52:21 GMT -5
What would be the reason? I obviously have no involvement with any of the parties affected by any of this.
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Post by swilk on Mar 25, 2008 11:03:31 GMT -5
Curiosity.
I am simply curious as to whether this guy killed a deer larger than the world record or if it was a hoax.
If it were a story of something else I could also say "the truth in this situation just doesn't matter to me" ..... but because I loooooove to hunt deer I find myself curious.
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 25, 2008 11:11:29 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with that.
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Post by swilk on Mar 25, 2008 11:13:22 GMT -5
I guess its a good thing Im not a cat .........
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Post by indianahick on Mar 25, 2008 14:17:40 GMT -5
Like dbd I could really care less. I looked at it, Yeah it is a huge antlered deer, congrats if it was really fair chase, passed that I am done. Guess I just do not worship antlers enough to care about records or record books. To me success is meat in the freezer.
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Post by steiny on Mar 25, 2008 17:31:31 GMT -5
I have always felt Rompola was telling the truth.
When push came tp shove, he said heck with it and kept that trophy to himself.
He is one heck of a hunter and has killed a bunch of whoppers in northern Michigan.
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Post by Hunter369 on Mar 25, 2008 19:51:45 GMT -5
Correct me if I am wrong, but he has killed monsters in other states too. I think I heard he got a few in Missouri and maybe another state. It has been awile since I have reaad any articles about him.
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 27, 2008 1:32:16 GMT -5
Why should he have to prove it to anyone. He is not trying to get rich or famous from what I know. He knows the truth, why should he have to have his deer X-ray'd just to shut some people up.
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