548" Record Rack Ranch

[JW]

548" Record Rack Ranch

How much do you think that buck cost?

I bet it was many years of our salaries.

[OleTomTalker]

I’m not sure how much truth there is to it but I heard way back in the day in New Zealand they use to shoot the red stags antlers in velvet with buckshot. Their reasoning was that every spot that a pellet would hit, a tine would grow due to the damage and with antler memory it would continue to grow back every season. Again I don’t know how much truth there is to it but it makes sense.

I've heard stories along same lines about clipping a notch in bottom of main beams early in velvet. Then drops would grow from that point. Never actually heard if any validity to this?!?

[M16]

I bet it was many years of our salaries.

I doubt it.

[cantexduck]

Just curious and wanting to learn. How?? That's interesting.

Supposedly , needle and hooks. The big bulbs are not natural so it makes sense to me. I will ask a breeder buddy more about it. He isn't the one who told me though.

[txwhitetail]

I thought a supplier or vendor bought that deer for him???

Wasnt that what was said on the delete posts?

$35k range

[Mailman]

good for him, his finances, his bullet

he's not isis, an anti, or my ex wife so my plate is currently way too full with people i don't like

Sean wins the internet, for me, today!!!

Can a 548" deer be a good American?

Marko was a very close second!!!



These type of deer just aren't my cup of tea, even if I had this guy's resources. I would book hunt every year with Marko on his ranch, or some place of that caliber. I just prefer native genetics...

That is my preference, if this cat wants to drop untold thousands on a 548" deer, by all means. I am not going to judge him for it, heck I don't even care what it cost. That's the beautiful thing about supply and demand, that ranch had a deer that this guy wanted to kill, he can obviously afford it, so everybody is a winner. Congrats to All!!!

[JW]

I doubt it.

So under a few hundred thousand?

[..Ambush..]

I think that Bucks been breaking the substance abuse policy.. 100% fair chase seems to be dying these days, shame.

[JW]

548" Record Rack Ranch

I think that Bucks been breaking the substance abuse policy.. 100% fair chase seems to be dying these days, shame.

Sadly jealousy and or judging is not.

[Pullersboy]

I'm not a HF hater, just not my thing....even if I could afford it. At the same time, deer like this, while impressive, just don't do it for me. I'd rather see a beast of a free range deer.

[Bazo]

Supposedly , needle and hooks. The big bulbs are not natural so it makes sense to me. I will ask a breeder buddy more about it. He isn't the one who told me though.

I read some where that those big bulbs are cause from blood pooling in the bottom of the antler after an injury. I wonder if they use the needle to open the blood flow and the hook make it pool?

[cantexduck]

I read some where that those big bulbs are cause from blood pooling in the bottom of the antler after an injury. I wonder if they use the needle to open the blood flow and the hook make it pool?

The race for bigger then your neighbor deer have made man come up with new techniques.

[..Ambush..]

Sadly jealousy and or judging is not.

Jealousy? I think not sir.. not trying to start an argument here just my .02

Id be far more proud of a 140 harvested on public land, than something like this. You dont BUY deer you HUNT deer, but i guess that concept is lost on most folks these days..

[JW]

Jealousy? I think not sir.. not trying to start an argument here just my .02

Id be far more proud of a 140 harvested on public land, than something like this. You dont BUY deer you HUNT deer, but i guess that concept is lost on most folks these days..

Well I wasn't meaning you. But ok.

[BIGTERRY75]

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