Kaibab Buck

elkholla · Jan 31, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Jan-31-08 AT 09:12AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Jan-31-08 AT 08:39?AM (MST)

I am not sure if this is the correct story regarding this buck or not. This is how I received it via email. Here is the story:

Shot on the north rim in the Kaibab. �This guy will be famous now but
he was too lazy to even find the thing.
This is a friend of a friend. After he shot this deer, 200 yards from the truck, he stopped looking for it because it was too much effort. He proceeded to go home and only after telling my buddy how big the deer was, they went back and looked again. After a short time they found the buck and now he is a hero.
Can you detect a small amount of jealousy in my script. We will see what kind of BS story Monster Muleys writes up, since he drove the buck up to their headquarters after checking it in to the game and fish. Turns out the last three holders of the governors tag all tried to find and kill this buck. That is close to $400,000 spent to shoot this buck that the Pillsbury boy whacked from his truck.

Happy hunting.

Jim

240" total measurement with 42" outside spread

(I sure hope this didn't go down exactly as discribed...but if it did my hats off the the friend who made him go back and find this buck.)

"Luck is often nothing more than preparation running into opportunity.?
-Some Smart Guy

huntindude · Jan 31, 2008

I was hunting 12AW when this guy shot this buck, the story going around there at the time was that he walked a few hundred yards and glassed until about 10AM opening morning, then got cold and walked back to his pickup where he shot the buck 50 yards away from it. the fellow I talked to said he helped the guy load it and he didn't even know what he had, he knew it was a nice buck but didn't seem real exited. who knows the truth but it is a fact the buck was killed right off the road, ( it was way north of the rim ) and it's a heck of a buck. in 10 days of hunting my butt off I didn't see anything that would even come close.

lchcguide · Jan 31, 2008

One Big Fella with One Big Buck!

timberline_shedfreak24 · Jan 31, 2008

WOW!

Timberline

"Live for somethin' or die for nothin'"

manny15 · Jan 31, 2008

Hunt' you pushed it to him...LOL

RACKMASTER · Jan 31, 2008

lighting up........feelings get hurt by woman and big bucks....
at lease he was out of the truck and off the road.....and glassing to me that a good hunter..... some get pissed because they think they were suppose to be "the one"..because they are fit or there miles from the road.....
what if that photo was a 70yrs old man?...a woman? a Jr hunter crippled half blind and holding a leash of a 3 lagged dog?
BUT A GUY ...(who likes to eat more than his body burns and does not feel the need to walk for miles and who does get cold)who is a bit large and harvest a buck of a life time 50 yrds from his truck... he knew what he got ...he was in shock!
bigger bucks are shot off quads and by bows at night!!
rackmaster
rackmaster

Boskee · Jan 31, 2008

Nice to see an average guy get a trophy like that! That's what hunting is all about for all of us, the chance to go in the field and take a quality animal. This guy will never top that one most likely but he sure got a wall hanger to enjoy for years. That's what quality public land hunting is all about!

WillPower · Jan 31, 2008

Sometimes being big and non-mobile pays off. My wife's cousin while hunting in Wyoming got tired on the way in and decided he could not go any further with his guide and buddy, so he decided he would drop down the mountain a bit, take a seat and wait for them to come back. They bumped a big buck that circled back to my wife's really really big cousin, who killed it after several shots - 193 the buck scored.

Nice Kaibab buck, no matter who took it!

BuzzH · Jan 31, 2008

That is close to $400,000 spent to shoot this buck that the Pillsbury boy whacked from his truck.

So, it would somehow be better if some rich dude that didnt scout, didnt put in any effort other than flopping down some cash at the feet of some outfitter and his posse of guides, killed that buck?

Hmmmmm???????

Congrats to the average guy (pillsbury boy) for taking a nice buck on his own.

Personally, I'd rather see someone like that kill it than a "client".

High_Wide_n_Heavy · Jan 31, 2008

"We will see what kind of BS story MONSTER MULEYS writes up, since he drove the buck up to their headquarters after checking it in to the game and fish."

Anybody written up any BS lately???

AZbowhntr · Feb 1, 2008

I personally know the guy that shot this buck. Yes it was shot not far off the road. And yes they did have a hard time finding the buck. And yes it was within a few hundred yards of a road. But no they didn't leave. And he was up there a few weeks earlier scouting. I'm not saying that he had any great plan but he was at least putting in the effort. He shot the buck on the west side and it was still up high. I had gone over maps with them just a few days earlier and showed them areas that I had hunted the year before. So I was real surprised when he told me where they were. And there were only a few people hunting as high as they were. Most everyone was further west out in the flats. I was lucky enough to get to go up there the next weekend and help the other guy that was with this guy take a pretty nice buck. Nothing like this buck though. That's what is so great about the Kaibab. You never know what your going to see.

burnloungekid · Feb 3, 2008

I dont know the story on this buck at all but as soon as I saw this rack I knew I have seen the sheds off him. I pulled up mu pictures and boom they are point for point. The St. George guys had these sheds at antlerfest last summer. What do you think same buck?

High_Wide_n_Heavy · Feb 3, 2008

I think you might be on to something burnloungekid

4x4elk · Feb 3, 2008

GOOD FOR THIS GUY

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As for calling him "pillsbury" he may be fat but your an a$$ hole and he can do something about his problem! You could but I haven't seen it yet.

7wby · Feb 3, 2008

Rackmaster & BuzzH have it right! Congrats to this hunter as long as he did it legally! Maybe the guy put his best effort into this hunt! It could end up being a motivator for him to get in better shape for next season!Who knows, congrats to him on a buck of a lifetime.

257Tony · Feb 3, 2008

Those sheds are definitely the same Buck! Hell of a Deer and I am sure that it didn't go down quite like the story said....

sageman · Feb 4, 2008

I second what 4x4 elk said!

fldrw22 · Feb 5, 2008

I honestly cant beleive how ignorant some people can actually be .The hunter goes out and harvests a buck of a lifetime and gets slammed by some jealous dipshit. Bigtime congrats to the hunter on a fantastic buck .Way to go .

Triple_BB · Feb 5, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Feb-05-08 AT 04:04PM (MST)[p]Rather see some Joe Schmoe holding a rack like that and hear how he shot it next to a road than see some rich dumb azz with a posse of dik-smacks sitting around the animal in a group photo...

CAelknuts · Feb 5, 2008

I'll 3rd what 4x4 said.

As for your comment tripleB, I hate to disappoint you, but most rich people aren't "dumb azzes", to use your description. Chances are, most of them are a heck of a lot more intelligent than people who make comments such as yours, and likely much harder workers too. If you're gonna be biased, at least be intelligently so.

Reaper · Feb 6, 2008

Relax people, dam. I once knew a big ol boy that shot a three legged buck. It was bedded down by a water hole, he shot it at 30 yards because it just wouldn't get up. We teased him for years for shooting a 3 legged lazy deer haha. He was so big he couldn't get out there and really hunt but he was successful and some of us were not. I say congrats to him, but we made him drag it back himself hahahahahaha.

elkholla · Feb 10, 2008

I'll have to echo what has been said a few times. It is too bad that people have to even mention his weight. (I actually deleted some of the additional comments made as it was pretty harsh.) I would hate to be the friend of said "Pilsbury" and sit here next to him reading this post. Reactions like this could push that guy away from the sport...and sometimes worse things. He kills a bruiser, and people are distracted by his weight. What kind of society are we? We are a hunting society not a weight watchers society!

I say kudo's to the man who pulled the trigger, and retrieved the animal. Nice work. I hope he sticks with it and returns to hunt again next year. And in the event that he does one day read this post, I hope that he knows this "Jim" character who wrote up this email and he has an opportunity to confront him. People are always so much stronger behind a keyboard than face to face.

To the point of him being near the road; I say he found some luck. There is a little luck in every big game animal that is killed in my opinion, and he will learn if he continues to pursue big game that his luck will run out quickly and he will have to do something to increase that chance of luck. That is all part maturing in the sport. But I sure hope that this lit a fire under him and will encourage him to return to the sport.

Just my .02 cents.

"Luck is often nothing more than preparation running into opportunity.?
-Some Smart Guy