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Put it in perspective. You run your basically worthless company and get 2 weeks to hunt. You go out and kill a dink of a deer with your bow and spend months on here flexing like you accomplished something. Now take a guy that runs a giant company that employs god knows how many employees. If you have ever been around a truly successful business man they have no clue how to turn it off. All day every day they think about their business and how to make it bigger and better. He gets a few opportunities a year to truly turn off the noise and do something he loves. He buys a tag or two that to most of us think is unreal but to him is a tax write off and a small chunk of change for his yearly income. How can you fault a man that has spent his life growing an empire and buys a few moments a year to truly enjoy what he loves? Again, if you have never been around businessmen with this kind of money you will never understand. I was lucky enough to spend a chunk of my life around guys like this and here is a lot to be learned.

Who even cares about these blood money animals anymore?

I have the honor of getting to see one of these hero’s every weekend. My Dad is 94 and landed in Normandy in August of 44. Got wounded twice and almost froze to death in the Battle of the Bulge. I’ve heard the funny stories but he almost never tells the other stories. I am truly blessed to still have him around.

I can’t speak for this particular hunt but I have been on or associated with a large number of both the raffle and auction hunts since their inception. A large number of the hunters are in the field a great deal especially the raffle tag hunters. I personally have seen a few of the auction tag hunters spend several weeks in the field enjoying the hunt just like any other guided hunt. Regardless of how you feel about the auction tags keep in mind every penny raised stays here in the state and has funded 1000’s of projects that otherwise would not have been done. And contrary to what has been posted in the past it absolutely stays in the field. It does not pay salaries or buy new trucks or pay for fishing related projects

Velvet animals are on their summer patterns and easy to track. As soon as they shed their velvet they go on a walkabout

I'm definitely jealous! If I had the money I would buy those tags every year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would piss off all the outfitters, because I wouldn't use a guide:)

Nobody is faulting this man for building a successful business, empire, etc. It's calling a spade a spade, saying he didn't truly earn the trophy. He didn't scout and find it, or even luckily stumble upon it. He was led to it like a dog on a leash because enough people were paid to find it and babysit it. If he made a great shot, congrats, thats the final .01% of the sum. Of course these are assumptions maybe he did do all the work. Obviously, to a degree, money can afford you better tools and opportunities (ability to take more time off, own private land, etc.) to hunt. But to see such a blatant example of public wildlife being purchased like a commodity is upsetting to most. Might as well put a stack of Benjamin's or a gold bar up on a plaque on the wall.

And who cares if it is a hunt or not. To that guy he thinks he hunted his butt off and will always remember it that way. I truly think if you don’t backpack in you are pretty much a pussy. Get off your quad and live in the country like a man for a minute. Does that make it true. Everybody has there own definition of a hunt. To a billionaire a day spent in the woods away from reality may just mean the same as me living on my back for a few days in the woods. Quit worrying about what the next guy is doing and only hunt coues deer because Muleys are ridiculous!!!

Come on now. It’s more than buying a head. i guess if you have never been around truly successful and wealthy business you will never understand.

still going strong. helped publish a book about himself in april and started playing show low senior softball in june at 97 years old. Eugene Metcalfe. Thank You Sir for your service!

Well I had the opportunity to shake the hand of one of our last remaining WWII veterans this morning. I thanked him for his service and noticed he had a POW license plate. He was an airborne soldier captured by the nazis in Sept 1944 during operation Market-Garden(A Bridge Too Far) and spent 6 months in a stalag. God Bless him. lee

I could be mistaken but if this gentleman is who I think he is he has spent over 1 million dollars on auction tags in the past several yrs in Az alone....

Not faulting him, just saying he bought the head. 6t6

I just wish one of these gov tags guys would kill one of these things in carharts and blue jeans.

If greyghost is right could you still say that? I'm sorry but that dude didn't do any hunting whatsoever. The only part of me that can justify it is the amount of money that can go to conservation. Past that, that guy bought a head.

I'm headed up there this weekend, it will be fun finding out

Don't understand why auction/raffle tag hunters seem to consistently take antlered animals in velvet. I understand strip archers would have a chance at the best deer prior to velvet stripping but the bulls are usually stripped by the 1st week of August. Why not wait?

He did that buck a favor. It must have been a heck of a chore just holding those things up.

Let's do this bitches.. Was there a topic?

It blows my mind that there are actually deer like that out there

Here is one WW ll vet, that I was glad to meet. Clarence (Bud) Ollum. The 82ND Airborne Division had 4 combat jumps in WW ll, Bud made all 4. One of his buddy's is in Brokaws book, Gagne, who didn't make it back, Bud is mentioned in Brokaws second book. Passed away in 2009. He also had an interview in Military History Magazine, and there is a couple of YouTube videos of him.

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I personally would love to learn how to work on my own animals! My taxidermist of 20 years has moved away. I haven't found anyone I like so it would be a great time to learn how to do it myself. If anyone is local and willing to teach I would be VERY interested!!!!

Great tents!

I'm also parting with Ruger MKlll Competition Target with Custom Grips hard to find and Original grips, box and wooden range box with scope that holds 4 pistols. $575, Ruger 22 45 , 4 mags and box $350, . Looking for Swarovski 12x50s