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I was sitting in my favorite reading chair last night(The Bathroom)and came across my 1998 North American Whitetail magazine issue that had the initial story about this deer. I got to wondering what evet happened to this deer. I was doing a little surfing last night and came to the conclusion that everyone thinks it's a fake. I guess I would have to agree. Some of the articles were really good about pointing out flaws in the rack and possibly the cape. Has anyone heard much about this deer? Have I missed something?
Pupster
 
Mitch Rompola lives a couple hours north of me,and no I dont know the man.What I know about Mitch has come to me 2 hand or Ive read somewhere.
Mitchs first bowkill was a Missouri state record and he broke his own record within a couple of years.Iam sure he also held Michigan state record at one time also.
Mitch is well know in M.I.and was very active in Commemorative Bucks of M.I., and had a falling out with them a few years back and has not put any of his deer in the books since.
Mitch had told some close friends about this deer two years before he tag it.
Mitch took the buck to a friend of mine ex-brother in law to be mounted.He held on to the horns and cape,but the cape had spoiled and he could not mount it.(he rode around with it in his trunk to long)
I dont understand why he dont go public with this deer,but its his deer .
There are many people that dont enter their animals in to the books.
I think its real.
and I know Iam going out on a limb to say that,but some people think ufo are real too.
randy
 
I will give Mitch Rompola $10,000 cash if he lets me see the rack and hold it in my hands.
 
I knew better than to respond to this one, and I did anyway.(way to go randy)
 
I believe the Rompola buck is genuine. Then again, I also believe I saw Elis eating at a Burger King in Kalamazoo a few years ago!
 
Mitch Rompola was threatened with a law suit if he claimed his buck to be the World Record over Milo Hanson's. Milo is backed by a seed company and the owner was loosing revenue by folks not wanting to book his head at shows as they thought Mitch's was the new record. He told Mitch that if he wouldn't enter in into B&C then it couldn't be a new world record and he would sue him if he referred to it as such. I will agree that Mitch Rompola is somewhat socially maladjusted but that in no way takes anything away from his abiblty to consistently hunt and take Trophy Whitetail. You may get lucky once in a while, as 8 year old boys shoot B&C bucks occasionally, but to do it on a regular basis is nothing short of amazing. I'm not sure but I think he has taken the Missouri State Record, "Twice", the Michigan State Record and I think another 15+P&Y and 3-4 that will make B&C,with his bow. He came to us 2 years before he killed his buck and told us he was onto a record. He asked if we'd build him a short bow, which we did. Unfortunately there is way too much scandel in the whitetail woods....Now folks are more interested in you "proving" your accomplishment than admiring your Trophy. I do not know 100% what the truth is because I was not in the swamp with him, but I have talked with enough old timers in the industry and most have come to the same conclusion ....Why would he try to pass a fake when he has already accompolished more with a bow than 99.9999% of the serious hunters out there. How many bowhunters do you know who have taken several whitetails which qualify for B&C? In addition,if your accusing Mitch of being a cheat then you have to accuse the scorers too. The gentlemen he had scoring the head, all of them, were long time accompolished scorers for their respective clubs, well respected in their fields for many,many years. Why would they risk their personal reputation to try and pass a fake for Mitch Rompola, it makes no sense. I don't know for sure, as I said earlier....but my money says that you'll see the rack again, in B&C, not too far down the road. By the way, the $10,000 offer made earlier is way short of the 1.5 Million I understand he was offered for the rack. I think it's already sold.......
 
You see, the reason Rompola is such a good deer hunter and kills so many bucks: He is a deer. You were mistaken when you saw a picture of the Rompola buck, and it's actually the buck that's rompola. I'm not sure who the guy is holding his head up in that photo.

Seriously, I have heard that his other records were called into question, and at least one of them in Missouri was found to be false. Can't remember where I read this. And why won't Rompola come clean with the people who supposedly scored the rack? Where are they now?

More problems for Rompola that call his credibility into question, he was fired from the post office because he was stealing food stamps from the mail. He has a very bad reputation for being less than honest so it's no wonder people questioned the buck. If it was a replica, who made it and why haven't they come forward? Where is the mold?

Here's another monkey wrench that'll make you wonder. I have seen photos of the buck ALIVE. Don't know if they were doctored or not, but I saw them. They were sent to me by a guy who lives in Michigan but hunts in Iowa quite a bit. (Dean if you visit this forum, help us out on the validity of the photos). I can't believe the major magazines are letting this one go. There's got to be some big money circulating that helped to cover some stuff up or something. It's wierd. Hmmmmm........
 
I never heard about the Missouri Bucks being in question but who know for sure. I do know he was fired from the post office for taking food stamps and giving them to another needy family. He didn't take them for himself. He was arrested for peeking up skirts at the mall however. This makes him a social misfit but takes nothing from his ability to consistently take Trophy Whitetail. I too saw pictures of the buck as did several others. I have not yet heard of one of the scorers, or Michigan DNR make the statement that it is fake. I still say it is way too much to cover up and there are way too many folks you'd have to involve. If there were facts proving the deer a fake, we'd alrady have read about it for sure as the "I told you so crowd" could not let it rest.. I heard all the "Floppy ears", Droopy eyes, etc. on the mount but to date I have yet to hear anyone come forward and say they can prove it's not real. I sure hope it is real for the sake of Deer hunting in general. There is no place for jealousy in the whitetail woods....we are all after the same thing. Why can't people just be happy for someone a little more fortunate than themselves. Again.Time will tell.
 
Most people would fight tooth and toe nail to clear their name of scandel if they felt they've been wronged and can prove it....Rompola's silence speaks volumns. It's not only odd but unusual behavior on his part. If his name is tarnished, it's by his own doing....he has been given ample opportunities to disprove the allegations and make some money besides. It's not only the $10,000 he was offered to have the mount examined, but the untold "lost revenues" should the head turn out to be a new world record. If he was so intent on helping needy families, perhaps he should have taken the 10K and given that to those in need. For me this story has nothing to do with being jealeous of another guys big deer, rather it's disgust for a story that has escalated to taint deer hunting because one man claimed to have a world record, but won't allow the head to be officially examined. My guess is he's scared to death of X-Ray machines and what they might show.

Lot's of rumors and speculation concerning this deer have been mentioned. One story dealt with the possibility of his extrodinary good luck with B&C's being pen raised at a secluded farm he has in Michigan...fact or fiction?...don't know, but Mr Rompola's problems have been of his own making....sadly enough he has tainted deer hunting with this controversy and is an embarrassment to hunters....whether his deer is real or not.
 
Do you know how much this deer would be worth alive?way to much to kill and not to profit from it.Also I dont think Mitch cares much about what the rest of us think.He will let us bicker about this deer and not care.
 
Here's a link to the Traverse City paper with some articles about Rompola. Mitch Rompola BuckHe does look a bit "Mansonish!"
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It is an easy bet, since others have offered Rompola $10,000 to see the deer. This may determine if the rack is a replica, but the request was denied by Rompola. Gee, wonder why?
 
After reading Larry's article that Hawkeye68 offered us, I took a look at all of my deer photos and one thing is true, of the photos I have of deer that I or friends have harvested not one had blood in their ears! I probably looked at 30 pictures.
Pupster
 
Let's not forget that it was Mitch himself who proclaimed to have killed a new world record whitetail. He then went into seclusion refusing to show it to anyone for verification other than a few of his hand-picked cronies. Takes more than a suspicious looking photograph to proclaim you killed the new world record. And the same guy who shuns publicity and refuses to have the rack verified in public lets several manufacturers use his photo in advertisements. Hmmm, the whole thing stinks!
 
I think the guy is just an odd character. Whether that buck is real or not in no way affects my life so I don't really care, but this scandal does keep a lot of us interested though doesn't it?
 
Mitch is a joke.The fact he got any of his deer in mi.is a joke.Hes got famly that raises penned deer in mo.and mi.You get 1 b/c deer your lucky get 2 your one hell of a hunter get three your a poacher and that is what he is.I hunted mi.for 35 years in southern mi.and seen one that may have scored b/c and he gets his deer in northern mi.where the deer dont get that big and gets p/y or b/c every year and hes the only one in that whole county that does this.Hes a joke and this is discusting
 
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