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From: 70lbDraw
11-Oct-22
Potential new record shot in Idaho last week.
From: 70lbDraw
11-Oct-22
70lbDraw's Link
From: 70lbDraw
11-Oct-22
70lbDraw's Link
From: 70lbDraw
11-Oct-22
I know, I only need to post it once!!!
From: Orion
11-Oct-22
The broadmouth ranch is high fence
From: No Mercy
11-Oct-22
Yup-high fence kill.
From: Vaquero 45
11-Oct-22
If it is high fence it should be in a different category . No bueno Senior , me no shoot fish in a barrel .
From: nmwapiti
11-Oct-22
That might be the ugliest big bull elk I've ever seen. Lot of protein and growth hormone I'm betting.
From: Corax_latrans
11-Oct-22
And to top it off, either that bull has a 5-foot scapula, or there’s just a weeee bit of long-arming going on there….
Well, not “long-arming”, I guess, because he’s sitting too far away from it to even touch the rack…..
At least Jimmy John got a pony ride outta the deal.
From: 70lbDraw
11-Oct-22
I thought it looked a little odd as far as big elk go.
From: JohnMC
11-Oct-22
I'll just say this if I went over to that guys house and his wife didn't have a huge set of fake jugs I'd be surprised and disappointed.
From: LBshooter
11-Oct-22
Wow!!
From: Supernaut
11-Oct-22
JohnMC X2
LMAO!
From: MPN
11-Oct-22
Rulon Jones owned , former Broncos all-pro defensive end, operation.
From: Grey Ghost
11-Oct-22
Has it been confirmed this bull was killed at the Broadmouth Ranch?
Matt
From: Griz
11-Oct-22
I thought Broadmouth offered both high fence and free range? I know two guys who went to BM and hunted the fence. Both came home with raghorns.
From: PECO2
11-Oct-22
"At least Jimmy John got a pony ride outta the deal."
LOL
From: M.Pauls
11-Oct-22
LOL John! Yeah with the lack of appreciation for authenticity by the “hunter,” you would think so!
From: Thornton
11-Oct-22
Garbage. All high fence operations should be shut down. I hunted pronghorn with a guy that used to "guide" on a high fence whitetail operation and he told me a the obscene things they did to the deer to get a "hunter" on them. It involved darting, sedating, and moving the deer to different confinements.
From: TREESTANDWOLF
13-Oct-22
Great post on another forum.
“ So there I was..... 500 acre of fenced in wilderness.
I walked to the 4th fence post like I was instructed.
My heart raced as I heard the metal gate being opened.... I knew my hunt had started!”
:^)
From: DanaC
13-Oct-22
Game farms have long known how to produce huge freaky antlers. It isn't natural and it damn sure isn't hunting. It's perversion.
From: W
13-Oct-22
High fence and elk is just sad.
From: Inshart
13-Oct-22
Gotta feel sorry for the elk!!!!!!!!
From: Duke
13-Oct-22
The shooter has a look in his face like he is wondering if his cc is maxed out now… Exciting stuff?!
I wonder if this was the same place where Rancid Crabtree, aka Ron Kulas, popped his elk a few years back?
From: TreeWalker
13-Oct-22
I must note that he was taking a risk wearing so much cotton on the hunt. Nor sure how deep he hiked in from the trailhead but could have turned out badly if temperatures dropped and that cotton was Evan a bit damp. The Lord is good!
From: Jim McNamara
13-Oct-22
Funny how we are ready to go to war with someone who hunts or shoots an animal in high fence. Archery hunting in the wild produces plenty of problems of its own that could be used to cause its demise. Maybe we should be more concerned about that then " high fence" .
From: sitO
14-Oct-22
Who cares.
Did anyone else scroll down, past the pics, and read the stats/rankings on hunting license sales/revenue per state? Interesting.
From: Corax_latrans
14-Oct-22
WTH does Rulon Jones have to do with it?
From: Brun
14-Oct-22
sito, I glanced at the hunting license stats and while interesting, like many statistics, parts of the data are very misleading. Their percentage of residents holding a hunting license includes the entire population, many of whom are under age and not eligible. In 2020 there were over 40,000,000 children in the US 11 years of age or under. That's about 13% of the total population. Some states allow 10 year old kids to get a license, some start a little later, but either way the percentage of residents eligible to hunt that hold a license is at least 10% higher than listed across the board.
From: arlone
15-Oct-22
Looks like a muscle bound steroid eater to me, but what the heck do I know? Horns look weathered like they have been shed a couple years ago?
From: Grey Ghost
15-Oct-22
It looks similar to the 50-point genetic/steroid freak buck that the kid killed on a free-ranging farm in Kansas a few years ago. There was lots of speculation that it was the new non-typical world record. Turns out the buck escaped from a high fence operation about 10 miles away a month before the season started, so it didn't qualify for the record books.
I asked this before, but has anyone confirmed this was actually a high fence kill? I'm sure it was, but I haven't seen actual confirmation.
Matt
From: HDE
16-Oct-22
"That might be the ugliest big bull elk I've ever seen"
Spider Bull is freakishly ugly as well.
From: JSW
17-Oct-22
This not an elk, it is livestock from a ranch. No different than shooting a 5000# angus bull and claiming to have a world record. Hunters must stop feeding this addiction which is devastating for both hunting and the wild herds.
Just stop! Don't pay for these things, don't post pictures and work at making this socially unacceptable. Calling this a hunt does more damage to fair chase hunting than anything else we can do. JUST STOP!!!
From: Vaquero 45
17-Oct-22
Keep preaching it Jim , well said ! thumbs up , God bless ! .........
From: Iowa booner hunter
17-Oct-22
I got a buddy that keeps on contact with some high fence operations. They all tell him that they can’t buy enough deer to satisfy the list of “hunters” that they have lined up to shoot them
From: JL
17-Oct-22
I think GG's question above is a good one and still stands.....has it been confirmed a high fence kill?
From: JohnMC
17-Oct-22
I guess I'll look at it a little different. I'd much prefer the guy that has a ridiculous amount of money and willing to spend it on hunting, go buy a big farmed deer or elk then spending the same money leasing or buying a whole bunch of land no one else can access. They aren't fooling anyone that knows the difference between a 300" elk and 400" elk. If someone wants to raise giant genetically altered deer and elk and take someone's money to shoot it in their pasture it's not hurting me any, nor fooling many.
From: bigeasygator
17-Oct-22
I think GG's question above is a good one and still stands.....has it been confirmed a high fence kill?
Haven’t seen anything that confirmed it was a high fence kill (the original article doesn’t make it clear, but I saw it was edited to say that it was likely from a high fence operation)…but sure looks like one.
From: DanaC
17-Oct-22
DanaC's Link
John, unfortunately some 'hunting organization' ** will 'recognize' it as a 'hunting trophy'. Makes us look like clients at a whorehouse. So yeah, it is hurting guys who hunt for real.
** Apparently SCI is ready to recognize it.
From: Dale06
17-Oct-22
Not my cup of tea, but could not care less if others want to do shoot tame animals. Aside from the “possible disease transmission” it’s a non issue for me. Sort of related, I called coyotes next to a high fence elk operation in eastern Colo. The place held a lot of big bulls. I heard that recently the waster supply for there elk dried up or became disabled, and a number of those bulls died. That’s really sad.
From: bigswivle
17-Oct-22
“I got a buddy that keeps on contact with some high fence operations. They all tell him that they can’t buy enough deer to satisfy the list of “hunters” that they have lined up to shoot them”
There’s a couple famous Iowa TV hunters that turned a few of those high fence does loose on there farms
From: wytex
19-Oct-22
Says here they brought it into the 10,000A pasture where iot lived for 4 years before he shot it. Sounds like high fence to me. https://www.chronline.com/stories/possible-record-bull-elk-bagged-by-grays-harbor-county-man,301979
From: P&Y400
29-Nov-22
I’m with Jim and hopefully the ol’ boy that killed it won’t find an OM who agrees to measure it, if it’s not too late.
From: LUNG$HOT
29-Nov-22
Woah! I missed this thread. That thing is crazy. Looks like a clump of tree roots on his head.
From: Glunker
29-Nov-22
Spare me the details.
From: Mule Power
30-Nov-22
This thread doesn’t even deserve a place on Bowsite. That is NOT hunting. IMO high fence operations give fair chase hunting a bad name. Horn porn at it’s finest. I’d rather shoot a 300 incher in a general license area.
From: 70lbDraw
30-Nov-22
“This thread doesn’t even deserve a place on Bowsite.”
“Just stop! Don't pay for these things, don't post pictures and work at making this socially unacceptable.”
Hmmm… looks like I’m guilty of spreading misinformation! Y’all aren’t going to tell Pat and try to get me banned are you?!
From: Mule Power
01-Dec-22
Lol nope. An honest mistake. As long as you didn’t hunt there.
From: bowonly
01-Dec-22
I'm thinking a DNA test would show a lot of Red Deer genes
From: Adventurewriter
23-Dec-22
I know some people that own a High fence elk operation.. great people not my cup of tea but they told me the "Spider Bull" was 100 percent a raised elk and released. I asked how they knew and they said of its easy we know the genetics
From: Tracker
23-Dec-22
I'll vote for a pretty ugly elk.
From: DConcrete
23-Dec-22
Who raised the elk and released it, adventure writer ?
From: Quinn @work
24-Dec-22
I think the Spider Bull was beat to death by everyone (skeptics) to the point if it was a high fence elk it would have been proven by now?
It was amazing that team Mossback was able to sit on this bull for so long throughout the fall until the shooter could get there and legally harvest it?
From: WhattheFOC
24-Dec-22
If I were going to take a high fence elk, I’d shoot a 400” bull that could pass for natural. Impressive, but not an obvious and ridiculous fake.
Exact same thought process for fake boobs.
From: RK
24-Dec-22
I think it would be great to have an Official Measurer, like Charlie Measure it. Not only would we get to see how big it is but it would be a challenge for the scorer.
It obviously can't make Boone and Crockett or PY But still interesting if you care about things like that
From: Bou'bound
25-Dec-22
Most don’t
From: Zbone
25-Dec-22
I'm like DConcrete, if the Spider Bull was pen raised, who raised it... Gotta be DNR regulations on game farms and as long as it has been now, surely somebody from that facility would have blabbed...
