Just Wondering??????

[predatorhunter21]

I know this is a dumb question, but I dont know the answer so Im asking you guys. What makes a bull a "Spider Bull"? thanks

 

[ltdann]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (predatorhunter21 @ Jan 13 2009, 07:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I know this is a dumb question, but I dont know the answer so Im asking you guys. What makes a bull a "Spider Bull"? thanks[/b]

This particular animal had been seen before. He was named " the spider bull" because of the distinctive shape of his antlers. The rack sorta looks like a spider. Its not a type of elk name, it was this bulls name.

Impressive rack, none the less.

 

[wmidbrook]

I'm not sure if it was Mike Eastman or others who popularized the idea that if you find a trophy animal on the hoof, give it a name. I think the "popeye" buck he filmed went a long ways in popularizing that notion.

The "spider bull" was just a non-typical bull that broke the antler measurement records.

Mike Eastman took old guiding practices and popularized them....in recent times, in the rocky mountains you get lots and lots of people scouring the mountains with their spotting scopes and even other means--both "professionals" and "amateurs". I have heard of people scouring the moutains with helicopters and such in late July and early August in their quests to find "trophy" animals. It even goes so far as paying finder fees etc if you can film a big animal and feed the info up the trophy information chain.

What was once not a big thing, is now a really, really big deal in terms of $$$ and popularity...all the efforts and techniques that go into trophy hunting have evolved a lot in recent years and, imo, has changed the nature of our sport to some extent...not all of it in a good way imo.

 

[spectr17]

I wouldn't credit Eastman for naming big deer or elk. I can remember the old timers on our camp naming big bucks they had spotted for whatever made them unique. Lobster Claw, Brutus, Clownface come to mind.

 

[hank4elk]

Right on Jeese, I think the Indians and first mountain men did it before the make a buck off it folk's were around.

 

[wmidbrook]

I think it's how the cavemen domesticated dogs, sheep, cattle, and horses...

 

[AZ Jim]

Maybe it is a strange practice, but when I think about it, I have named most of the big game animals (and few small game also ) that I have taken. Names that come to mind are "Nick", "Magnum", "Uno", "Deliverance", "Forkie", "Tuffy" "Bessie" and "Snapper". I think it is fun to name them usually based on some characteristic of the animal or the hunt it self.

"Nick", was a Mule Deer I shot in the Kaibab. He had a nick in his ear from a broadhead during the archery hunt before the rifle hunt were on (at least that is what we figured). Jesse might remember this one, he helped me load it onto my Jeep the year I met him.


AZ Jim

 

[DEERSLAM]

The first person that I know of that started naming big bucks (on TV, magazines or Videos) was Mike's brother Rod Eastman. Morty was the first big buck that became popular before Popeye.

I've only had a name for one of the animals I've shot before I shot him. It was an antelope I hunted in AZ in '04. I named him Gimpy because he walked with a noticeable limb.

 

[weekender21]

It makes it easier to keep tabs on certain deer/elk in your hunting area too.

 

[trapperbr549]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AZ Jim @ Jan 13 2009, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Maybe it is a strange practice, but when I think about it, I have named most of the big game animals (and few small game also ) that I have taken. Names that come to mind are "Nick", "Magnum", "Uno", "Deliverance", "Forkie", "Tuffy" "Bessie" and "Snapper". I think it is fun to name them usually based on some characteristic of the animal or the hunt it self.

"Nick", was a Mule Deer I shot in the Kaibab. He had a nick in his ear from a broadhead during the archery hunt before the rifle hunt were on (at least that is what we figured). Jesse might remember this one, he helped me load it onto my Jeep the year I met him.


AZ Jim[/b]

Well it wasn't "Nick" I was wondering about. how about the story on "Deliverance." Was he a pig or did you have to kill him in self defense?

 

[AZ Jim]

Well, don't laugh now, but "Deliverance" was actually a name that was directed at me by they guys in my hunting party when I took my first archery buck. They said the polaroid picture of me and the buck with my bushy dark beard and wild eyed smile reminded them of the hillbillies in the Deliverance movie. Boy that really dates me huh (polaroid pictures and a dark beard).

Anyway,

By the end of the hunt they directed the name towards the deer and it stuck.

Snapper was the name I gave to the javelina I shot 4 times with my .357 before it died. I just snapped its teeth at me between each shot as I approached before it finally keeled over.


AZ Jim

 

[trapperbr549]

I can't laugh, I have polaroid pics of me with a bushy beard as well. Kind of funny, we live in Missouri and float the Ozark streams quite a bit and this year my wife and kids got me a t-shirt for Christmas that says, "Paddle faster, I hear banjo music."