Aram Von Benedikt

[Brent]

Best one I've seen yet!

 

[Stalker69]

You’re not thinking about the likes! The clicks!! The shares!! The social media clout!!

Come on man!

I could give two" sheets" about that ! Wonder if he'd done same if it had been a doe, or fork horn ? If not, shouldn't have done it that time either.

 

[JMF]

Hands down the funniest thing I have read on RS. Probably because I could see every bit of that as I was reading it. Took me 3 times to get thru it, couldn't stop laughing.

Let me guess. That appaloosa was leading the charge. We had one and his nickname was "britches" because when you got on him you better have them on tight.

The "run like the ghost of satan was on their asses" line still has me laughing, and I read it yesterday.

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

I don't know how either party could be proud of that deer.

 

[CMP70306]

Pennsylvania can be pretty bad during the first day of deer season but this one is pretty impressive even for our standards.

Life long PA hunter here, every year we get at least one deer that runs in front multiple hunters. With putting on drives and stands being only a couple hundred yards apart at most it’s bound to happen. Since we split the meat evenly it is generally irrelevant who killed it unless it was a big buck.

Of the handful of cases I can think of where big bucks passed multiple people most were settled in the woods, a few during butchering, and one where the guy straight up claimed a deer he missed but the hunter who killed it didn’t feel like arguing with the guy. I personally have been a part of three of them, all of them only had one bullet hole so it was just a matter of determining who made the shot.

I'd imagine game wardens will get involved and root out the truth after all this. I hope he loses that buck. What a jack ass. I enjoy listening to joseph's podcast and he seems like a stand up guy but it makes you wonder if it's a family trait? So many of these famous hunter people turn out to be douche bags.

Can’t really blame Joseph for the sins of his brother. My brother and I spend a lot of time together but we have very different personalities and have differing views on many things. I know for a fact we both have situations where we greatly disapprove of how each other handled it.

This would probably be one of those times for them.

 

[KenLee]

But the Von Benedikts shoot leupold
How tf could they kill anything ???

I figure he put the barrel to immobile deer's vitals and didn't need a scope.

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

It is straight up hogschidt to believe that someone can see a trophy rack on a deer, then aim for the vitals and not notice a collar in the process. You don't not notice a collar on deer or elk.

 

[KenLee]

I just took a bow hunters safety course (it is required for a hunt I’m about to go on) one of the sections talked about wait times before perusing. One of the scenarios said push the deer to make it bleed.

Maybe if you have big dogs to catch it

 

[WalterH]

For me the pivotal moment was when the two hunting parties came together and what Aram knew and did in that moment.

He knew the other party had shot at and wounded a collared deer. He knew that the party knew the direction of travel of the deer they shot and that they were setting out to finish/recover it.

By his own admission, he did not think the deer he shot was previously injured or collared.

Based on these facts alone, it is hard for me to come up with any ethical justification for him getting into a footrace with the other party to beat them to the wounded deer.

Total dick move. Illegal? No. Just a sh*itty thing to do. Never mind the rest of the BS that unfolded before and after that...

 

[Spoonbill]

It is straight up hogschidt to believe that someone can see a trophy rack on a deer, then aim for the vitals and not notice a collar in the process. You don't not notice a collar on deer or elk.

I don’t know about you but I tend to not notice alot of things when I see a big rack.

 

[Dirtbag]

I'd imagine game wardens will get involved and root out the truth after all this.

I'd actually find it really interesting to see how @mtwarden would go about handling this.

 

[Musky]

For me the pivotal moment was when the two hunting parties came together and what Aram knew and did in that moment.

He knew the other party had shot at and wounded a collared deer. He knew that the party knew the direction of travel of the deer they shot and that they were setting out to finish/recover it.

By his own admission, he did not think the deer he shot was previously injured or collared.

Based on these facts alone, it is hard for me to come up with any ethical justification for him getting into a footrace with the other party to beat them to the wounded deer.

Total dick move. Illegal? No. Just a sh*itty thing to do. Never mind the rest of the BS that unfolded before and after that...

Obviously, no one really knows what happened except the people up on the mountain that day. Having said that, legality wise, by his own admission he wasn't wearing the proper/amount of orange required. He also posted a photo of filling or supposedly filling out his tag AFTER the deer was gutted and skinned. Lastly, built on pure speculation, however, based on his own article, the other party supposedly did some questionable tactics and if that is the reason that he took this deer home as "hush money" then is that not as bad as the supposed questionable tactics from the other party?

Either way, this could've actually been a positive spin for the hunting community instead of the massive derailment had both parties acted accordingly.

Lots of ways to spin this, I say continue with the memes because there are some REALLY good ones.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Hopefully AVB never makes another dime off of the hunting industry.

 

[Rich M]

What could the lady have done that was illegal while tracking the deer and trying to stay in front of dingbat?

 

[CorbLand]

What could the lady have done that was illegal while tracking the deer and trying to stay in front of dingbat?

I would bet 100 bucks that the only reason he brought it up was the same reason he brought up the religion portion and questioned if they had the GPS data from the collar...distraction.

 

[Shō[t]gun]

Having said that, legality wise, by his own admission he wasn't wearing the proper/amount of orange required. He also posted a photo of filling or supposedly filling out his tag AFTER the deer was gutted and skinned.

He said he had just lost the orange band that normally goes on the hat, which still doesn't qualify. He posted pictures with rifle-shot bucks in Nebraska and Missouri last year with zero orange on the same hat too (both states require an orange hat). He seems like a bit of a habitual liar when caught.

 

[TaperPin]

I don’t know about you but I tend to not notice alot of things when I see a big rack.

I agree. Somewhere in this picture is a deer - I haven’t found it yet, but they have assured me it’s there.

 

[Fartrell Cluggins]

I'd actually find it really interesting to see how @mtwarden would go about handling this.

I don't think there's anything to handle unless AVB was in violation of law by being without the hunter orange that he admitted he didn't have.

 

[wmr89]

He also posted a photo of filling or supposedly filling out his tag AFTER the deer was gutted and skinned.

I believe Utah regulations say the tag needs to be punched before the buck is "transported", so I don't think he technically did anything wrong there. Obviously, punching the tag before skinning ang gutting is still good practice.

Edit: it states "After you’ve taken a big game animal, you must tag the animal before moving the carcass or leaving the site of the kill."

 

[Dirtbag]

I don't think there's anything to handle unless AVB was in violation of law by being without the hunter orange that he admitted he didn't have.

probably so, but I'd like to see what he'd do if on the scene and how he'd investigate something like this circus. My guess is Utah DWR will get involved at some point.