Re: YIKES!!! I can't believe I am posting this pi
I just wanna make a little comparison here.Bear with me for a minute.When Tony Louvesten shot his deer, then turned around and sold it to Bass Proshops a lotta people though that was just terrible.Not so much on this site but on most others it was whined about they only killed the deer for the money, etc..
Now Rompola does just the opposite, he makes no money off the rack, doesnt try to enter it anywhere, and just basically wants to be left alone.And people dont like that either.Now instead of shooting the deer for money theres something wrong with it because he wont profit from it.
I brought up a perfectly valid point about something being illegaly done during the transporting of the Louvesten buck.I get told the DNR used thier discretion.Rompolas never been charged with or admitted to any wrong doing yet hes been accused and its commonly believed that his deer is fake even though every scorer or DNR official that was interviewed that has seen the rack said it looks very much real.
Im not trying to restart that argument, just using it as an example.Now Milos touring with his buck, producing products with his deers likeness on them, getting his lawyers involved at the thought someone might claim to have shot a bigger buck than him, and just generally using his deer as a businuess enterprise and thats whats commonly accepted as the way record holders should act.As in my two examples above any thing besides this will surely get fingers pointed at you.Deer hunters are actually a pretty fickle group of people and it dont take much to get public opinion against you in that circle.Your damned if you do and damned if you dont.
I dont know if his deers real, all I know is by all accounts Ive read hes a top notch deer hunter and a pretty private person.And hes got one of the most talked about deer of all times as is obvious by it showing up so frequently this many years after it was shot, or staged, or whatever.
