Really Big Buck

[olgriz]

This picture was sent to me in an email, along with the following information.

"A white-tail buck deer named Goliath stands in the field of Rodney and Diane Miller's farm in Knox, Pa., Aug. 5, 2003. Goliath, a massive buck with a huge rack and worth perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars, died, Dec. 6, 2004".

I see an ear tag, so I'm guessing that this is some sort or deer farm????????????? Anyhow it's really an impressive critter. I saw something kind of like this in the wild years ago. I was packing mules out of Reds Meadows, California, packing some hunters in the day before season opened. They took their horses and headed out while I packed the mules, so I was a hour or so behind them. I came to the crossing of Cold Creek, which flows through some really thick crushed down small quaking aspens that are really thick and tangled. The trail winds through there, and you can't see off in the brush. I came around a bend and there was this little bodied buck in the trail not more than 50 feet away. It didn't look like he was much bigger than a German Shepperad dog, but he had the biggest rack of horns I have ever seen. I didn't get to look at him for long, but I counted 11 points on one side before he got into the brush, and I didn't get them all on that side, let alone the other side. I never saw him again, but I was sure looking.

 

[RMillet]

Ya know I don't normally suffer from buck fever but I think if I saw something like that walking through the woods I'd be too flabbergasted to shoot. I once saw a whitetail with a huge rack, forked like a mulie, with tines that must have been 18 inches long. Never even lifted my gun up, I was so busy looking at the oddball rack.

If they know that deer died on December 6th, somebody must have quite a wallhanger right about now.

Dick

 

[musketman]

"A white-tail buck deer named Goliath stands in the field of Rodney and Diane Miller's farm in Knox, Pa.,

Just 93 miles from Three Mile Island... :hmm:

There's more velvet there than on 100 Elvis paintings...

 

[shmrck1]

cowhand,
i don't even like to wear a hat! i just can't imagine walking around with that on my head!!!!
snake-eyes eace:

 

[Slowpoke]

I think.... This is the same deer that was stolen a couple years ago, then found. Deer farms are big in PA. I visited one run by some Amish and they had some really big deer. Most of there deer went between 4k-5K a piece.

SP

 

i have that deer as my background on my pc what a sham i hope that big boy spread his geans theres a deer farm about three miles from me and the cheapest deer is a small doe for 1,000 but they have some very big buck i mean i would love for the fince to get o hole i go there and vidio tape the deer year round and practice my calling the biggest i seen had to be around 45 points

 

[doverdog]

This deer was raised on a deer farm about 20 miles from where I live. The farm is located in Clarion Co. in NW PA. He was not a Three Mile Island deer, as the deer there have 5 legs and 3 tails. :: The owners estimated his value at $1 million. He was used to breed bucks that were sold to other deer farms to use as stud breeder bucks. He was indeed stolen and recovered this past year. There is a rather large lawsuit and criminal investigation ongoing. The last rack was supposed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 410 Boone & Crockett points. I may shoot one like this later on in the season but would probably pass on it the first day, waiting for a bigger one. :blah:

 

you know the owners could probly blam the death of the deer on stress from it being stolen how old was the deer i would love too just have a set of his sheds well i hope the theves get the chair a** holes

 

[xtremhntr]

i have very sad news.... buck dies

 

[silverfox]

Backwoodshunter your right until they fine the real reason they blame the death on stress from being stolen. He was about 7 1/2 years old. He was found by DNA testing on another deer farm less than 100 miles from home. Goliath was going by the name of Hercules when found. They hope to have a few genes passed on this spring when the fawns start showing up.
Fox

 

I have a very close friend who raises deer in Pa .I am originaly from PA and still have a home there too.
Any ways This friend told me there use to be big $$$$$$$'s in deer but since cronic wasteing disease there isn't any money in it other than deer pee now.
The law prohibits the import or export of live deer in or out of the state at the present time.
Woody

 

[IronCrickett]

He*@, we call deer like that "button bucks" around my parts... :bull:
Later
I.C.

 

[Smoke Rookie]

Anybody here ever been able to find a pic of Goliath when he's not in velvet? I've looked a little bit, but that's all I can find, and I would LOVE to see him all spiffied up. Though, that would have to be quiete a tree to clean that bad boy up. RIP Goliath.

Brandon

 

[Smoke Rookie]

Ooops! Just looked at the pics of him again, and noticed that he probably IS all shed off of his velvet. Those points are so thick, I can't even tell!