this stuff isn't all that uncommon and it makes me sad , I had 2 different monsters living in my area and one in particular was a home boy that I saw with my wife in a bachelor herd and he had a rack so wide it was beyond imagination .the following year a young guy about the age of the fellow in the above article who lived a few miles away somehow harvested him under VERY suspicious circumstances that mirror those in the article. Seems he was in the coffee shop right at first light with a "fresh" killed monster buck talking it up and my ranch manager saw him in his truck at about 3 30 am out in my area of the woods . this mans dad farmed the field across from me and this buck was known by myself and a few others to visit that field late at night . . . . . I do know this , they charge by the inch for illegally taken bucks over 100 B an C as restitution after they burn your wallet up with fines and other costs and confiscations ...makes me happy to see the above schmuck get his desreves ...and I am sorry if that sounds not nice but it is what it is !