I must be missing something...I do not understand all the irritation people ahve over some guy paying a guide to get him a bull...

I have hunted DIY my whole life, never once had a guide...and take people out all the time...I scout for them, know most of the elk that are in the drainages I hunt...and if someone comes out to hunt with me, the first question asked is what size bull...most dont really know...some are VERY keen on certain things...(I generally wont hunt with folk who are ONLY concerned about size)

Reason I ask about size/quality of bull is to get a feel for what kind of hunt they want, and what they are looking for...the two guys I took out this year...just wanted a killer father/son thing...however we got into bulls within range 6 times in 4 days...one well over 380 most under 270...

this guy has a lot of money...that does not make him evil...this guy paid a guide service to get him a specific bull...that does not make him evil either...

there are a LOT of executive folk that spend a tremendous amount of time literrally flying from place to place in order to make things happen...their time is typically much more valuable than most of ours combined...Neither does that make them evil...just facts of life...

Do any of you even know the man? DO any of you even know how he got the money? And does ti really matter?

Incredible bull was taken on public land...took even the best hunters almost a month to locate him, after the bull sat in plain site along a road for months...

No one tagged him with GPS...
No one poached him...
No one, to my knowledge, did anything illegal to get him
No one got hurt
No one killed themselves getting him...

the above 5 points say more to me abotu how incredible this bull really was, since he supposedly didnt ahve a snowballs chance in !!@# of escaping with all the publicity he had created...to me, it makes elk even that much more special...which is why I continue to hunt...

but oh well...