Motrapper: I wish you luck in your elk hunt. Here in washington you have to be drawn in order to hunt big bulls (at least where I hunt) and I wasn't this year, sooooo I get to hunt a spike. Oh well, I still wouldn't miss it for the world.
I read on another forum that they were kicked off some private land so they crossed on to the public land in order to not get the cops called on them, and that is when they spotted the bull.
Now, I do not know how true these comments are, but talk about luck.
The thing that really makes me sick about a thread like this is the doyle moss factor (the proliferation of trophy game collectors that are not true sportsmen or hunters, just a bunch of rich people trying to out do a bunch of other rich people for bragging rite's and paying doyle and his henchmen to keep true hunter's and sportsmen at bay until the trophy is collected).
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I take it that mossback is not very well liked around here???? First i have heard of them. Tell the story i would like to here what they are doing to make every one not like them.
Oh where to start? The list is so long. If you look at most Mossback trophy photos they will have ten or eleven guides in the pic along with the guy that actually did the shooting. The guides should just be called herders, because that's what they do. With the Spidey bull, Doyle Moss had guides surrounding and trying to keep it in a canyon before they even had a client to shoot it. They were there everyday watching it. He did get a trespassing ticket for the private property issue that someone else stated.
Othere guys have had him blocking public roads with there vehicles so no one else would scare away "his" bull.
The guy is just in it for the $$$$ and he gets lots of it anyway he can.
It's always a hot topic on local Utah forums when his name pops up.