The weight is more of a curiousity thing than "bragging rights." A cool story ... "Remember that horse of a deer that one guy arrowed ..."

One last comment. I don't know the whole story, nor do any of us, but it seems to me like the gentleman wasn't bragging it up and trying to do a media tour.

In fact, he took his sweet time stepping forward. So either he was perfecting his story - or didn't want to attract a lot of attention because of giving away his hunting grounds and because he figured he'd be criticized for not taking the proper steps to confirm his story.

I'm going with the latter and assuming like any hunter or fisherman, he embellished the story a little.

Congrats to him for the buck, no matter what the real story is.