Wowza! That was a long time ago. Haven't heard anything about that in many years. Why the interest in digging up an old issue like that?

 

There is really nothing questionable about it.

It is not real......

 

Gold3499

Your question of why the interest in digging up an old issue like that?. Because it was a hotly debated topic when the story generated and my purpose/intent in asking for any new updated info on the matter concerning the issue was to see if any new info may sway my opinion on the matter.

In my mind, the incident was a complete hoax from all the info I had read. Just asking if any new material has come forth with....thanks.

 

Many years ago I spoke with Craig Calderone (from the whitetail hall of fame near Jackson, mI) about his opinion of the validity of this deer. He told me that he offered a couple thousand $$ to Mitch to have the head x-rayed but Mitch wouldn't do it. So Craig concluded that it was a hoax but no one has x-rayed it yet, I think.

 

HOAX. is mitch still stealing food stamps?

 

Last I remember was Rompola was offered $10,000 for an X-ray and for a closer inspection of the mount....he refused to do it and withdrew his claim as "World Record". Either he didn't need the money or had something to hide.

Here's the entire story.....

http://whitetail.com/rompolagate.html

 

If the skull had been split.Wouldn't the brow tines be pointing in a differ direction.Say away fro the head.

 

The antlers being too far apart isn't an issue of splitting the skull....it's an issue of being completely fake.

 

I do believe in Mitch. I do believe in Mitch. I do. I do. I do.

 

I Heard The Obama Administration offered Him free welfare checks so he wouldnt have to steal them and also Citizenship so he couldn't be deported and will live free on everyone else's dime so he had went into seclusion .

He gave Up Deer Hunting for Identity Theft .

 

i heard the obama administration offered him free welfare checks so he wouldnt have to steal them and also citizenship so he couldn't be deported and will live free on everyone else's dime so he had went into seclusion .

He gave up deer hunting for identity theft .

now thats funny !!!!

 

The biggest debates came from the fact that it was thought Mitch had had the deer brought here from a Missouri Game farm and the reason that he would let anybody touch it was due to the fact of his controversy with the Mich DNR and Commemorative Bucks of Michigan. I also heard that he had issues with the Pope and Young and Boone and Crockett clubs.

I also heard that he was offered a huge lump sum from Myles Keller not to pursue the World record issue.

But those were all speculation and rumors.

If I had shot it, I would have been parading that thing all over town. But thats just me. LOL

 

I am pretty sure that Myles Keller does not care about Rompola`s fake buck.

Milo Hanson had a problem with Rompola claiming to have the new WR but refusing to offer proof.......just like every other WR entry is required to do.

Yes, Rompola has/had issues with both P&Y and B&C.........and that has nothing to do with the fact that he made his sponsors look really bad with the way he handled the situation. Rompola was offered by at LEAST 2 different people to have the x-ray cost covered, yet he refused to accept the offers. Rompola did at one point state that he did indeed have the rack x-ray`d, but only to prove to himself it was legit? He refused to show those alleged x-ray results to anyone.

It has been so long ago that I cannot remember the exact details, and it is not worth the time to research Rompola`s old stories, but one of his Michigan records was admittedly killed with a field point tipped arrow, and he claimed to have used a certain broadhead on another one of his record book deer.......but the first prototype of that broadhead was not made until 2 years AFTER the deer was killed.

Rompola has issues.........

 

Yeah I remember this pretty well. Heard a lot about it when it came out and the next couple years then died off. I haven't even thought about that one until now.

 

I'll see Chuck Neese in a couple week's ,I think Mitch was shooting a CSS at the time ,I think that was the bow in the pic .I'll see what Chuck say's if he will even talk about it .

 

Yes the CSS Swapmaster.

 

Rompola signed a binding contract and legal papers issued from Milo Hansens lawyers to never again up this rack or even mention it as long as the Hansen Buck is the Worlds #1. They pretty much made the man put up or shut up and in the agreement, if Rompola tries to profit or advertise his deer in ANY way..... he must submit the antlers for official scoring and x-rays.

 

The buck may be real or fake I don't know,what I do know is that Rompola has shot a ton of huge bucks before and since the buck in question. I find it amusing that Milo Hansen is so sue happy of anyone threating his record buck that was run down with a pickup.

 

At least it was a real deer. He just wanted the guy to prove it since his record was in question because of Rompola's claims. It's pretty simple. If it really is the record, just let someone x-ray it. If not, then shut your mouth.

 

To brimg it so public and not let it be scored doesn't go together. I know I have read of people shooting HUGE bucks had them scored and recorded and had problems with robbery issues at their residents or where ever the buck may have been. If that is the case of not being harassed he should have just shut up??

 

As to that buck being from a game farm. I peronally know guys who saw it hanging, and they say the deer was real. However that doesnt mean it was a real michigan deer. if you look at his web page you will see deer shot on that farm in missouri with the same type antlers.

 

anyone ever see this video before?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tELce5YnI2M

 

Personally I have not made up my mind on this deer yet, I would LIKe to beleive it is real just to get the record away from those damn Canadian (kidding.....kinda) but if you look at the video and stop it at 0:52 the way the antlers come off the skull looks completely different (to me) than they do in the pictures

 

I think mitch photoshoped his face on my pic..here is a pic of me several years ago

 

I dont know that hat looks pretty fake!! I think you photo shopped that one in. The nerve of some people cant even afford to get their own hat!!!:set1_rolf2:

 

38" spread hmm thats suspiscious right thare
plus all the details about after it was found just dont make sense
i would guess its a fake

 

Some of you need to get your facts straight and read the following article....



http://whitetail.com/rompolagate.html

 

That article is stupid.I couldnt even finish it.The guy is out to get him no doubt.He said it had to be fake because the arrow was sticking out of the deer and should have shot through it at 58lbs.Thats just crazy.guess all the deer that guys didn't shoot through were fake too.

He also said it was fake because the deer didn't kick the leaves where it was laying so it was fake.Another stupid comment.I have found a lot of deer that didn't kick up leaves where they fell.

I don't know if the deer is fake or not but this guy is not the expert he thinks he is.Some of his article is total bull sh..

 

:deadhorseMust be that slow time of the year.

 

It is at least it is hunting oriented. LOL

 

I have always been puzzled that when so many people were calling him a liar, he didn't do anything to prove them wrong. I don't understand. I wouldn't do that, I wasn't raised that way.

 

The people I've talked to that actually know Mitch Rompola all say that he is different and thinks different than the rest of us. They claim that the entire situation became very overwhelming for him very fast and he just wanted to back out of it and be forgotten about. Some people cannot handle the spotlight and he is one of them, so they say.

 

This is the real truth, my step dad is from the same area as mitch, and remembers him when they were younger, and he has anti social tendecies, he gets REALLY nervous in groups or just around people in general. I believe that the deer is real, no one has came up with a compelling argument as to it being fake other than playing on the fact that a guy with a clinically bad anti social disorder wont jump through everyones hoops, all the other reasons come from people who have a lot to LOSE is mitch isnt discredited (milo hanson, and the guy who wrote that article). Not everyone is wired the same way, mitch is a reserved nervous individual, many of us are not. Just my .02

 

There is an updated article to the earlier one....this one goes into more detail.

http://whitetail.com/rompolagate2.html

From the very beginning Craig Calderone offered $10,000.00 if Rompola would have the antlers x-rayed. The June 1999 issue of Michigan's Woods-N-Water News reported that the Michigan Big Game Hunter's Association has offered an additional $10,000.00 if Rompola will submit to a polygraph test and permit the antlers to be x-rayed and allow DNA testing. That's $20,000.00 on the table if Rompola will take these steps to prove that the antlers are authentic.

 

All I know is if I ever shoot a world record I am going to pull the same BS as Mitch did. When someone finally offers me enough money to have it x-rayed, I will gladly do it I think the deer is fake, it just doesn't make sense.........