Anyone else see this?

[INMT]

Maybe the droopy ear deniers don’t have much to go off of. Only hunt talk forkie.

 

[cgasner1]

The droopy ears are a dead giveaway, definitely cut skull plates. We were doing that 20 years ago to make these bucks look like booners. People didn't smile in kill photos years ago, that is modern shit. I could go on and on with shitty droopy eared grip and grins. Some smiling, some not. All potential booners.View attachment 355651
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That top photo is old school cool with the glasses

 

[MTTW]

That top photo is old school cool with the glasses

I wore those glasses so long they came back into style.

 

[rogerthat]

I have spent way too much time down the rompola rabbit hole. Initially my first reaction and what I believed for many years was that he was the world’s greatest fraudster. He is definitely a wierd dude. But over the years as I dug deeper the facts don’t support the fraud. Only anecdotal speculation like what you see in this thread.

The man unquestionably knows whitetail deer. You can watch interviews and listen to people who personally know him including his son. He had killed multiple verified and entered state records prior to this buck. The buck was handled and scored by three scorers, a butcher and seen by others. They have given interviews. Watch the recovery video on YouTube if you like.(may sow more doubts as not the greatest) 2 field photos of the buck and read the story as told by Mitch.

I think when the dust settles(and I do think we will someday know likely when Mitch has died) we will find out that buck was real and Mitch is likely one of the greatest whitetail hunters that has ever lived. Either way, and if I am wrong and took the bait hook line and sinker(very possible) we are still talking about that buck with little to no mention of Milo Hansen and his spindly 3.5 yr old he gunned (including once through the horn I believe).

 

[44hunter45]

The website says it went for $213k, so I' not sure how to figure out where the $520k came from. But the guy has a huge set of stones to end up killing it on the last day, because either way that would have been a good chunk of change to lose. In the ElkShape podcast he was asked what he farmed, which was my first question. The answer was hay. So maybe the IRS might be interested in checking out the farm, because something doesn't add up.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/1994-2024-auction-proceeds-1.pdf

I stand corrected. That is the number Google AI threw out. I should have known it was hallucinating. It is actually from Arizona when you go to the website and drill down. There is no elk tag listed for Washington on HF.

Change the number in my post and I still stand by it.

 

[Shed God]

Supposedly the rompola buck burned up in a house fire. Alot of info on it on the net. Seems like it was a BS deal.

 

[rogerthat]

Supposedly the rompola buck burned up in a house fire. Alot of info on it on the net. Seems like it was a BS deal.

That’s misinformation to my knowledge. His son Kevin confirmed this. But who knows as I had heard that at one time also

 

[grizzly63]

Here are a few much smaller ones. That light is my neighbors. My house is behind the cam.
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Sorry about all the new people headed your way.

 

[thomas89]

How do you cut the skull plate to make them look bigger?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Post your dead yard bucks, critics of the internet, you wont

 

[rogerthat]

My hope is that now that Casey “the condo killer” Brooks has his elk wr that he will turn his focus to the wr typical whitetail. I would love to see that broken in my lifetime. There’s a solid chance those suburban HOA hunting skills will come in handy for this exact task.

 

[Arcola]

How do you cut the skull plate to make them look bigger?

Asking for a friend.

I’m curious about this too. I just let my dinks be dinks.

 

[Forkyfinder]

My hope is that now that Casey “the condo killer” Brooks has his elk wr that he will turn his focus to the wr typical whitetail. I would love to see that broken in my lifetime. There’s a solid chance those suburban HOA hunting skills will come in handy for this exact task.

you live in a subdivision out of town.

Do you kill that bull in your yard with a tag? Just curious.

 

[Shed God]

Rogerthat could be misinformation. There is alot of BS on the rompola buck

 

[rogerthat]

you live in a subdivision out of town.

Do you kill that bull in your yard with a tag? Just curious.

I would need more context. Have my wife and kids named him? And are they home?

 

[Forkyfinder]

I would need more context. Have my wife and kids named him? And are they home?

Wouldnt slow me down. But sure. yes to both.

 

[rogerthat]

Wouldnt slow me down. But sure. yes to both.

Haha. Yeah I would smoke that joker. Don’t need big aggressive male animals near my wife and kids. However here is one key difference in how things would go for me, that bull is getting stuffed in a closet never to be seen by the internet or really anyone since I have no friends and my family could care less.

 

[Ought Six]

If you guys like the Mitch Rompola conspiracy, and big whitetail stories, this is a pretty crazy 2 part series:

 

[INMT]

Rogerthat could be misinformation. There is alot of BS on the rompola buck

Is that misinformation pre or post internet? Maybe britannica

 

[TheTone]

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