SW Iowa Hunter - Theres two published stories to the Zaft hunt, with obviously contradicting details that were added and removed to sugar coat what happened. Big Buck Magazine ran a way different story than North American Whitetail did. The article you posted was out of the North American Whitetail article.

Your question was - would I have entered it ? Yes, I would have so I could try and make a bunch of money on it, just like Zaft did. I don't begrudge him that.

P&Y can accept entries from anyone and anything I suppose, but it was their job to decide if it was an ethical kill that will be the next World Record and an icon to the sport of archery. P&Y failied in that and I will never be a part of them (unless I shoot a monster) because of that.

Bottom line, Zaft took a rushed shot on a very fast moving deer and he got a bad hit. Poor shot, poor hit and he lost it. Happens to a lot of us. The only differnce is that a day later someone find a huge buck and Zaft says its the same one and claims it. Legally the guy who found it could have claimed it as a pickup, and no one could have proved it was there deer, and no one can prove it was the same that Zaft shot. Heck, no one can prove the arrow killed it - the coyotes very well might have.
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