#200: The Rompola Buck
DEER HUNTER
Kevin Vistisen
4.7 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this weeks episode of the podcast I am joined by the legendary host of Michigan's Outdoor Radio Mike Avery.
In the first chapter of The Rompola Buck series Mike and I dive deep into the outline surrounding the most controversial deer hunting story of all times.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the deer hunter podcast, a platform created to entertain, educate, and evolve the modern day deer hunter. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. Yeah. Anybody who is in the deer hunting world or maybe even a casual deer hunter |
| 1:07.2 | knows the name Mitch Rompola. |
| 1:11.0 | Mitch is a Michigan deer hunter who several years ago shot what would have been a world |
| 1:16.7 | record white tail. |
| 1:18.3 | But there was some controversy around the animal, some controversy around the way Mitch |
| 1:24.2 | handled the whole situation. |
| 1:26.4 | Long story short, the animal is not in the books, and in many people's minds, Mitch has |
| 1:32.4 | been disgraced. |
| 1:35.4 | Okay, this one is the first white-tail buck I ever shot. |
| 1:39.1 | I shot back in 1958, Missouri. |
| 1:42.8 | That's where I'm originally from, and I was one month shy of being 10 years old. |
| 1:49.1 | And further down the road, it ended up being a state record for Missouri. |
| 1:55.3 | And this one here, I shot in 1967, and I also shot him in Missouri, |
| 2:02.6 | and this one ended up breaking the typical record of my other one. |
| 2:06.6 | This buck here I shot in 1962 in Missouri, |
| 2:10.6 | and it ended up being the state record, |
| 2:13.6 | and it was one of the biggest ones ever taken in the world with a bow and arrow at that time. I was only 14 years old when I shot this deer. |
| 2:20.0 | This one here is a Michigan buck. |
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