Good lord you have surely been blessed with success sir!!! I remember Joe commenting on a podcast about how good of a hunter you were and now all I can say is WOW!!
This is the most impressive individuals trophy room I believe in existence. When you take into account the method of tracking bucks being far from the midwest's food plot and blind style harvesting, it's all the more impressive. I'm from northern New York, and while there are locally deer harvested that break 200lb relatively frequently, it would be a tremendous achievement for an entire hunting party worth of men to have harvest as many deer that go LIVE WEIGHT over 200lb as you alone have harvested that DRESSED over 200lb. I'll likely never shoot in pounds of live weight in all the whitetail I'll ever harvest in just net inches of antler of your mounts. Truly tremendous accumulated lifetime accomplishments on display.
Man it’s hard to believe you accomplished this magnificent collection this looks like a life time achievement ,and you got along way to go you are definitely one for the books great Hunting .
What a Beautiful collection. Such a Unbelievable accomplishment and memories. It Definitely helps having a wife that hunts and understands the joy of hunting. Thanks for sharing Rick ! 👍🏻
Very very impressive! Beautiful home, unbelievable all those trophies! What do you do for work? Lol , couldn’t imagine your taxidermy bills over the years! You are the man! Awesome collection
Hi Rick, one of the best game rooms I've ever seen. I actually saw a couple of those up close, I hunted with you and your Dad up at Ron's in SK. I killed the big NT from his camp back in 98. Glad to see you're doing well and again very impressive trophy room!
Loved seeing your beautiful home and trophies, thank you. I wanted to say but never knew really what we had. I tracked a big buck ended up weighing 197 dressed as close to the 200 lb club as I ever gotten. But on my way out I kept coming across a huge track and told my buddies that night. My friend asked me to take his 20 year old son in after him so I ofcourse agreed. So we finally got in where this buck crossed a few times and planned on picking him up when I seen the rear end of a animal about 80 yds , which I first thought was a moose but then I realized it was a whitetail. I told the boy to get ready and I grunted at him a few times and he came on a B line. When he got to 40 yards I told him to kill him, now this boy only ever shot a couple of deer and he had trouble getting him into the scope. I was getting nervous like the buck then the buck turned broadside took about 5 steps and the gun roared. So we snuck over and picked up a blood trail went 40 yds to where he laided dead. My friends helped and we poled him out and got him to a certified scale at Kadkadjo . He certified completely cleaned out @ 297 lbs !!! Now looking at the length of your career hunting Maine I can see he was a true bruiser .
Dam, Very impressive love to watch a video of tracking tips of some of the lessons you have learned bet there's a wealth of knowledge and tips. Would be a excellent video....
Really interesting and of course most impressive. I'm up here in Alberta and we've been debating whether these dakotensis whitetails get as big bodied as the northeast ones, but there's no real established tradition here it seems of weighing field dressed bucks to know - it's all about the rack. 318 and 287 pounds dressed is mind-boggling, and it seems we have our answer! Thanks.
Those are some awesome trophies you’re quite the Deer Hunter you should try to add a public land trophy Blacktail to your collection They will test your skills
You wouldn't believe what the yuppies in the city would pay for that chair. I love it very smart very awesome very well built. What about a set of horse for a robo, I think if you used hardock as the long pole part and notched it out so you can slide one of those big old moose horn in as the paddle part it'd be awesome I think it's just for your canoe or something you know
I'm in no way shape or form trying to knock any of this down but one has to wonder about his out of state deer if they were outfitter hunts, cage hunts, public land hard work living and breathing deer. Rick doesn't strick me as the type of hunter who needs to be inside a fence.
Definitely no fenced deer but I believe Rick will work with outfitters for some of the more exotic hunts like the Canadian bucks. Last season he went to Nebraska and shot two mulies on back to back days on public land by himself. He can get it done anywhere on his own so he’s not above connecting with the local guides here and there ! The man just lives and breaths hunting.
