RE: Spider bull has been killed
Wow, so the $200,000 estimate sounds low to me then. That's about what I was thinking, but I was thinking the governor's tag was only around $75k or so. I was thinking that keeping the mossback crew with you for a full month would be pushing close to $100k based on what it costs to hire 1 guide on a 1x1 week long hunt. Multiply that by 6 on the mossback crew and a full month and you get into some major bucks.
It is an unbelievable bull, and I have no doubt that it did take some serious effort to close the deal, but that was one expensive elk!! Imagine how it would have turned out if he hunted him for a month and he took off and ran in front of some no-name local guy who took the week off work to go out hunting on his own or with a friend and he shot him instead!