#1690049 - 12/25/09 08:21 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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This deer appears to be real to me. I can understand if someone doesn't want the headache of putting up with all of the hype shooting a world record deer would bring a person. I also understand that money is not everything or every persons biggest desire. But, if this deer is truly real and a world record, the deer deserves to be given it's due. It would be a shame if this deer and it's story never got to be brought to light.
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#1690084 - 12/25/09 08:47 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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In world where all the "pro" hunters are trying to get everything on camera and get sponsored for every little fart they toot....this man deserves a medal.
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#1690315 - 12/25/09 11:19 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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I'm not sure how much of that is fact and how much is product hype. I do know Mitch used the synthetic scrape stuff. I know he thought it worked. I don't know about the rest of it. I also know he hunted that deer for three years and that he often wore chest waders and rainsuit top when scouting.
I also know one of his biggest enemies is an outdoor writer for a Detroit paper who hated Mitch because he wouldn't give him an interview.
But the bulk of the posted story seems to me to be product promotion invented by the writer. I tried some of the synthetic scrape starter and it almost worked as well as my own urine. The inventer and his wife spent two hours with me one night trying to convince me to use it. The bow Mitch was using was made by a custom bowyer. He made me a bow. The minute I saw it, I told him to keep the deposit and the bow.
Now the hunting tactics and scouting information, I believe are about right. I know he spent hundreds of days backtracking in the snow and I know he missed the deer once before killing it. I also know he played his cards very close to his vest and probably passed up a dozen bucks over 160.
You'll notice, not once did Mitch claim it was world record. When the lawyers for Hanson offered him $25,000 not to make that claim or exhibit the buck, he jumped at because he had no intention of doing so. When an antler collector, now dead, offered him $25,000 to have the skull x-rayed, he told him basically perform and impossible act.
Then he retreated to his cabin and went to bed.
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#1690372 - 12/26/09 07:54 AM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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Wasn't the deal with Milo's people that he couldn't show or claim his buck as the world's record until the Hanson buck gets beat. But after that, he can then start promoting, showing, or claiming what he wants too? Which he might not do anyway, probably why he took the offer. I remember reading some kind of contract like that.
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#1690386 - 12/26/09 08:38 AM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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I have no idea. I haven't seen the agreement and I haven't talked to him.
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#1690451 - 12/26/09 10:15 AM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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Hey Bowriter
Its good to hear this story about Mr. Rompola. Knowing that someone could mentally and physically put that type of effort into a deer is, well out of this world. If the scouting reports for his time are correct, Mr Rompola scouts more in 1 yr than the rest of us deer hunters do in a lifetime. I hope in time the truth, the entire truth comes out just for no other reason than pure enjoyment for us as hunters to enjoy.
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#1690587 - 12/26/09 12:22 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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He scouts all year. I would just be guessing but I would guess he has killed more deer over 160 than any bowhunter alive. He just quit talking about them. I'm pretty sure his son is running that web site.
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#1690590 - 12/26/09 12:25 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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Let me add one more thing. He is hunting big woods in one of the most difficult areas to hunt. If you have ever hunted big woods-like 50,000 acres, you can imagine how tough it is. Year after year he keeps killing these big bucks.
When he withdrew from P&Y and BC and CBM, he stopped saying anything about what he killed.
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#1690596 - 12/26/09 12:34 PM
Re: Rompola Buck (for you bowriter)
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This may have already been answered and asked earlier in the thread, but does he hunt private or public land?
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