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The Rompola Buck
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"It's suspected that Anthony, who is a highly regarded taxidermist, removed the skull cap from a dead buck and replaced it with the presumably larger Kansas rack for photos. And fame."
NAW TV: Marc Anthony Talks About Buck He Allegedly Faked - North American Whitetail
The quest for fame and fortune may have claimed another victim from the hunting world.This time,
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Just a thought. If all deer ears droop with a cut behind them would it make sense that all taxidermist know this and if they were going to fake one that they would somehow fix the droopy ears before they took picture of it or is there not a way to fix droopy ears.
Forget the ears, look at all this crazy stuff:
This Strange Buck Had Five Legs - NDA
Just like people and other animals, whitetails are subject to birth defects and genetic deformities of many kinds. The buck shown above carried one of the stranger deformities we’ve ever seen. QDMA founder Joe Hamilton has this photo of a five-legged deer in his collection that comes from his...
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I kinda thought the same thing...if their ears are always hitting their own antler wouldn't they naturally over time hang thier ear lower and lower... And hitting over time building up scare tissue may add mass that the muscle can't support as well, like u said...
the area my parents live has lots of deer. They aren't scared and it is normal to see 20 if u go on a walk in the neighborhood. There used to be just a handful that had very black legs. It's not mud, the hair is dark brown to black....now years later u don't seem very many regular color leg deer. If the gene is there in the "herd" then it's not surprising to me to see bucks with similar characteristics all killed around the same area
My father has killed most of his bucks in the same piece of woods over 50 years of hunting and you can distinctly pick out the 2 gene pools amongst all the racks over 5 decades. It's crazy and such a cool thing to see!
So your assumption is that he copied a rack that really existed and was circulating in the free market?
Vice:
"Illinois hunter and taxidermist Marc Anthony is suspected of mounting antlers from a 190-inch Boone & Crockett buck found dead in Kansas on a deer he claimed to have killed in Illinois."
One things for certain..... If I'm ever lucky enough to shoot a deer like that, I'm gonna pin its damn ears up for all my photo ops. It won't be tinkering with the antlers, just the ears. no P&Y or B&C rules on ears are there?
I make a Y incision on all my bucks so the ears droop in the photos. That way folks see the pictures and say, buck must be bigger than it looks if he's going to get it mounted.
I think it's time to lock this thread. We're going in circles and throwing insults now. I thank the OP for bringing it up, I learned a ton about the situation and think I had my opinion changed. Although my first opinion was admittedly uninformed.
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