You may have seen this image floating around the Web for the past five years. The accompanying story fluctuates from telling to telling, with details being altered as time goes on. Like the legends told around a campfire, this tale of the mammoth buck that was taken down is one that many know, but few can verify.
According to the popular retellings, the buck weighed from 400 to 500 pounds. It is said to have been taken in various states in the U.S., as well as in Canada. What’s the real story?
Leave it to the folks at urban-legend resource Snopes.com to sort out the fiction from the facts. Find out what they’ve discovered.
Over the years, rumors have placed the animal in both Maine and Ontario, while the current rumor claims the buck was killed in Hartford, Michigan.
The truth is the buck shown above was killed at a high-fence game farm in Wisconsin called Wilderness Whitetails in September 2009, and the photo seen here can be found in that game farm’s trophy gallery. While no official weight was listed for the kill, wilderness preserve owner Shorty Flees told Field and Stream Magazine in 2010…
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