Frankly, I' m getting tired of receiving e-mails about this thread. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE treat each other with respect and debate the issue and not each other. If you can' t come here and open this thread without all the disrespect then don' t open it.
IT' S THAT SIMPLE

Mdbohntr, I think they do that because they know if they do then there' s a good chance the moderators, such as yourself, will lock the topic and it will disappear. It' s happened before. That' s what they want. Don' t give in to them. People have a right to be informed, regardless of whether or not facts are being brought forth that some do not want to hear. Myself I find it interesting that both Consumers Bureau' s in Manitoba and Alberta have either already investigated this or are presently doing so. The company in Manitoba (Trophy Whitetail Reproductions) has already been forced to re-write their description of the Zaft replica. It will be interesting to see how Zaft is made to comply after all the facts have been examined by the Alberta Consumers Bureau, now that the BBB of Alberta has completed their initial inquiry and forwarded this off to the government agency responsible for such things.

5 or six more days and it should all be over with. Maybe a couple days of, I told you so. W R are you comeing to Madison by chance?

nub......Yes I' ll be there. And actually it won' t quite be over. It will be interesting to see how the Province of Alberta reacts to this. You see, the rack was scored by Dave Paplowski (representing P&Y ) and according to him it is a new Alberta record. Zaft is also claiming he is the Alberta record holder. Now if the " rumors" regarding the score are correct, it doesn' t seem to me like Zaft will be able to claim the Alberta record either. One would think that the panel scoring results would eclipse Dave' s. And you couldn' t use Zaft' s Buckmaster score, one would think, to esatablish the provincial record. It wouldn' t make sense to have deer scored under two entirely different scoring systems in one provincial record book, now would it?

Frankly, I think everyone should step back, SHUT UP, and let the process work itself out. There isn' t a single person here that actually KNOWS a single negative fact about the whole affair. If anything was truly known, there wouldn' t be an investigation. All that I' ve heard is rumor and inuendo, second hand garbage that is commonly known as gossip.

This kind of poison tongued rumor mongering, I feel, puts the image of bowhunting in a negative light and is bad for the sport. We' ve got enough image trash to contend with without this crap piled on top of it.

Just take a minute to think about something. Assume for a minute that Zaft' s story IS true and put yourself in his shoes. You shot the biggest deer you' ve ever seen in your life, lost the blood trail and the deer got away. Some days later, you hear through a guy on the street that Farmer Brown found a coyote gnawed deer on his propety near where you had been hunting. A real whopper! You go and ask to see the deer and, sure enough, it really IS the very one you shot and lost.

Everyone calls you a liar when you try to claim it.

I guarantee that if that happened to me, I' d cut the horns off the thing and take ' em home. NOBODY but my closest friends and family would know anything about it. I wouldn' t give people like W-R and that ilk the chance to stir up controversy at my expense. Even if it was a clean kill on a record deer with a homemade selfbow and no questions about it, I don' t think I' d make it common knowledge.

What is it that prompts so many people to go out of their way to try and discredit anyone who shoots a potential world class buck? Cynicism? Jealousy? Or just pure dam*ed meanness?

Anyone else gonna be there? You bringing your bows? I live about 20 minutes from there. I know a place in Madison has a pop-up 3d range. I give lessons!

i agree with big bulls !!!!!!!!![X(] and in case you didn' t see it on page one
who cares

I just noticed that this thread is also posted in the deerhunting forum. Huntingnet.com has a policy regarding posting the same thread in more than one forum (spamming). Because of this reason I am locking this thread. Anyone who wishes to continue to participate on this topic may do so in the deerhunting forum.