ORIGINAL: MTdream
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...
You're right, you are missing something. First off, some rich guys time is not worth more than mine or anybody elses, just ask my kids. Secondly, this bulls picture was posted, and a mad dash insued to kill him. "Wow, look at that huge bull, lets kill him no matter how much it cost." How any self respecting hunter can support some guy paying of the game commission to hunt longer than Joe six pack is beyond me. This governor tag, special raffle crap is garbage. Suckers like you and others on this board go "wow, it is a boost to game management." Bull****, is is buying tags and expoliting the people b/c one can afford to do it and getting special privledges. So many people get on these boards and yap about the Antis. Who cares, it is the commercialization of hunting that will destroy it, bought and paid for by people like you supporting this crap. Everyone should by outraged that another hunter gets opportunities at public wildlife you don't because they can buy their way into a special tag, outrageous. [:@] This isn't about begruging somebody with money, it is about equal opportunity for game that the public owns.