The Trophy Room: January 2007

January 14, 2007

A Heavyweight

This deer was shot in Nebraska and is one of the heaviest deer ever killed. It weighed 412 lbs. The heaviest whitetail ever killed was in Minnesota in 1926 and weighed 406lbs field dressed and an estimated weight of 511 on-the-hoof.

Christmas Decoration

Nathan Myers of Memphis, TN shot Rudolph and hung him in his back yard for Chistmas this year. He wil be on the naughty list now and will not be getting anything for Christmas next year.

Nathan Myers Tennessee Buck

Here is a big 8 point frame with some stickers Nathan shot last year in TN. The buck gross scored 140".

January 12, 2007

Dan's Elk

This is Dan Evans with his 348" Arizona Bull.

Indiana Bucks

Here are a couple of deer I've shot in Indiana a few years back. One nets 133" and the other one nets 120".

January 10, 2007

Gator vs. Snake

This 13' Burmese Python was found dead after bursting open from swallowing a 6' alligator. This isn't the first time these non-native snakes have attacked gators in the Florida Everglades.

January 8, 2007

Deer Hunting- Gator Style!

The two arial pictures were taken by a helicopter flying over Sothern Florida. The other alligator pictured was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas just north of Houston, near a house. Game Wardens were foced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate.
Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations. "I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. They later realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.
Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.

Alaskan Man-Eater

This Alaskan US Forest Service worker was out deer hunting last year when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear and dropped it a few feet from him. The bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.
The bear was just over 1,600 lbs. and stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.
Of course, the Alaskan Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear was stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airpirt to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild.
Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the F&W Commission established that the bear had killed at least 2 humans in the past 72 hours including a missing hiker.
The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found.
Although the hiker fired 6 shots and managed to hit the grizzly with 4 shots (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's body), it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely.
The bear killed the hiker an estimated 2 days prior to its own death.
Think about this: If you are an average size man; you would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. The bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.