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Saw this posted on Craig's List this morning. Would you take 20 grand for it if you shot it??

http://buffalo.craigslist.org/spo/779594457.html

Some folks don't care. Personally I think it should be ILLEGAL to sell the game or parts of it... Problem there though, that would make it illegal to sell hair or feathers to fly tiers etc....

But to shoot something like that and try to make huge money....

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Funny thing about that buck, it was shot the first day of the archery season (Oct. 13) in '06 about 6 or 7 miles north of my house. WE had 2.5' feet of wet heavy snow that brought down trees, limbs and power lines. Millions of dollars in damages. Our power was out for 7 days around here. IIRC they had a dusting!

It was a hog of a buck.

For 20 grand, Sha-Yeah! That'd but a lot more hunts, rifles, college classes for the kids.

And I don't know the story behind the sale, there might be some financial problems we'll never know about. If I was selling stuff to pay medical bills or something, a deer mount would be one of the first to go.

I'd rather the government not get involved in such things. It's a slippery slope. What is this guy doing that has a tangible adverse effect on you or anyone else? If we're going to outlaw everything that offends someone's sensibilities, we're all going to be done hunting in short order. Where are you going to draw the line? Do we need to make hunting over bait illegal in Texas and any other state where it's legal? Wouldn't bother me. I don't hunt over bait and have no desire to. What's the moral difference between this and a millionaire paying an obscene amount of money to be ushered into an elevated tree stand over bait or a food plot where a magnificent buck has been patterned on a cuddeback? He pulls the trigger and writes the check. The guide delivers the head to the taxidermist, & he waits for it to come home. It isn't my idea of hunting. If one of my friends got a head in that fashion, I'd never let him hear the end of it, but I'd stop short of making it illegal if that's what the good folks in Texas want.

Taken in Bracken County, KY in November 2007. Biggest one I ever took.



Asking $20K. Will throw in rifle, 20 rounds of ammo, reloading dies, and knife used to gut him and truck used to haul it to the processor. Will assemble wife,children and dogs and retake the trophy photos with you in them. Act in the next hour, and I'll even give you the remaining venison from my freezer.

If you can fix up that neck we might have a deal....

I lost quite a bit of weight after that picture. My shirts are now a good half-inch thinner. Besides, we'd redo all the photos so that it was you in the pics and not me. . .

Oh you mean the mount's neck! Oh that was just a little roughed up from transit. It all combed out.

For 20 grand, one would at least expect Cindy Garrison or Courtney Hanson in the hero shots.

Agreed. We don't know WHY its being sold.

The pride and joy deer head is worth little compared to keeping a roof over the kids' heads.

BMT

For $20K, you can have KYHillChick in the picture with you, and I'll get her to wear a hunter orange cap and vest. For no extra she'll wear your choice of either Ed's Red, Tinks 69, or Hoppes #9 behind her ears.

Laws retricting sale of game parts are not because of someones sensibilities. The resoning behind such laws is to control poaching of game for profit. Bear gall bladders being an example.
For $20 000 many peoples ethics woukld take a beating.

For $20,000 my ethics wouldn't be the only thing taking a beating.
For that much money, I'd give a beating to most anyone you asked. LOL

But does stopping the sale of legally obtained trophies really curtail poaching? There's a demand for trophies. Most folks like to shoot their own, and I'm in that group myself, but some people, for whatever reason, prefer to buy them. As it stands, these people can be supplied by trophies taken legally, or illegally. If we make trade in all trophies illegal, we reduce the demand because not everyone who wants a trophy enough to pay for it wants one badly enough to break the law to obtain one, but the demand will still exist, and you've now given a monopoly to those who break the law.

The bear gall bladder thing has gotten me thinking. I watched a documentary on it some months back. Yes, I understand that this doesn't make me an expert. They started out with some footage of some poachers who were dumb enough to take video of themselves poaching a bear, and followed the process all the way to the Japanese black market, where the gall bladder fetched upwards of 20k. I couldn't help but think that if we managed to collect the gall bladders of a significant percentage of bears taken in Americal and Canada, we could dump enough legally taken gall bladders on the market to make the black market option less attractive.

Shaman, I looked in my pockets, and unfortunately only have $19,999. It was a pleasure almost doing business with you.

No accounting for what some folks will buy. Trophys I guess I am odd. I have some raggy heads that you couldn't buy because of what they mean to me alone. OTOH I wouldn't give you a dime for one of yours no matter what it was or how big just because it ain't mine.

BCR

I wonder what I could get for my baboon when it comes back from Zimbabwe...?

Will the tuxedo be included?

Actually, I would check the cost of a replica and then let it go. I don't understand antler collectors, but $20,000 to them might not be much. For us, it would be a great help for my kid's college or first house.

stumpy