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NRA convention no longer a crime-free zone
70,000 gunnies, many allowed to carry concealed, converge on a city. The gutters don't run with blood, but somebody did get caught trying to swipe some elk antlers.
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"Can someone explain how a pair of elk antlers can be worth more than $500k?"
The big game hunters market is a rabbit hole that you do not want to disappear down. It is madness, but with money.
"many allowed to carry concealed"
I saw more than a few open carrying. I was going to open carry at the law seminar but it was cold in the banquet room so I left my pull over on.
Actually, according to the story it was two sets of elk antlers. But SB is right. The big time guided big game hunting market is for big money players only. We don't have many details about these two sets, but if they were record book antlers, it is possible that with endorsements and all the appearances and folderol that can accompany a record book kill, they just might be worth that much to the owner. In most states, they can't be legally sold, but you get the picture. Do a google on the Spider Bull Elk that was killed in Utah. That hunt was practically a military operation and the number of people involved was staggering. You can probably go to Africa and hunt plains game a couple of times for the price of a B&C or P&Y elk or mule deer guided hunt. Or B&C or P&Y Texas white-tail. Big big money.
I can understand how a documented set of record-breaking antlers would be worth a lot of money to someone in the biz - but once they were stolen, you would think they wouldn't be worth much, unless there is an "underground market" for antlers like there supposedly is for fine art. Makes you wonder if those two were going to ransom them, or just hang 'em up to keep their ball caps on?
Can someone explain how a pair of elk antlers can be worth more than $500k? I must be missing something.