#236 - Is the Rompola Buck Real? The Inside Scoop From The Deer Hunter Podcast
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
-What he found out about the buck from his own research
-The history of who Mitch Rompola was/is
-What made Troy Pottenger say that Rompola was one of the best deer hunters he had ever known
-Was the skull actually cracked or was it a set of antlers on a doe
-The settlement between Mitch Rompola and Milo Hansen
-Some of the weird, crazy and wild stories that came out of his research on the buck
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? This is Jay Khofer and welcome to the Exodus podcast. Hope you guys |
| 0:03.8 | liked the new art for the podcast and still found it just fine. This episode is very interesting, |
| 0:10.8 | very different than what we've done here recently is with Kevin from the Deerhunter podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | And this past summer, he went and basically interviewed a lot of different people that had done a lot of research or had very |
| 0:23.7 | strong opinions on arguably the most captivating and polarizing story in the world of White |
| 0:30.3 | Tales and it's about the Rumpull the Buck. |
| 0:31.7 | And if you don't know anything at all, long and short of it is that there was an alleged |
| 0:35.8 | new world record shot out of Traverse |
| 0:38.7 | County, Michigan in 1998 on November 13th. And just a really interesting story, everything around it. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm waiting for the day for someone to make a actual documentary and compile all these things |
| 0:50.5 | because I think it would be really cool. But for now, the next best thing is having Kevin recount this because he did a lot of |
| 0:58.2 | research on this this past year. |
| 1:00.1 | And I think you guys really enjoy it and just kind of get his inside perspective and |
| 1:03.8 | spin on this. |
| 1:04.4 | And also, after we got done recording this, I was a little bit down the rabbit hole. |
| 1:09.5 | And so on the Hunting Beast Forum, there's a |
| 1:12.3 | really interesting thread on this deer, and it's going to be linked in the description below. |
| 1:17.1 | And then also I mentioned Gordon Winnington as well. And so on an article that was referenced |
| 1:22.2 | in the Hunting Beast forum that I clicked and everything else in there, he had a really |
| 1:26.6 | interesting, I guess, perspective on how |
| 1:30.4 | everything went down to his memory and how it just all unfolded. So I think that would be another |
| 1:36.7 | really great resource if you found this podcast interesting to kind of go down that and read both |
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