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This article was in the Casper Star Tribune this morning.
By JOHN MORGAN
A massive, record-book sized bull elk met its match late last month when it was hit by a vehicle at night.
Marge and Mark Zupan of Powell struck the 700- to 800-pound animal Nov. 29 about a mile north of Meeteetse on Wyoming Highway 120, according to a story in the Powell Tribune.
"All of a sudden I see this big, black animal," said Marge Zupan, who was driving. "Then all I could see was horns everywhere."
The crash crumpled the front of the 3,200-pound Toyota Camry, folding in the right headlight corner and smashing the windshield on the passenger side. The elk was killed instantly, according to Game Warden Jerry Longobardi.
"Mark, I think we hit a moose," Zupan told her husband, who had been asleep. Mark Zupan was bleeding from the nose, mouth and chin from glass cuts, Marge said. Both the Zupans were wearing their seat belts and were not seriously injured.
Longobardi loaded the carcass into the back of his Game and Fish Department pickup with the help of a deputy sheriff and four Meeteetse firemen. Longobardi called the kill "a shame" for the magnificent bull to perish in such an unfortunate and undignified manner.
"It's pushin' the record book probably," he said.
Because state law does not allow him to award the trophy head to the Zupans, Longobardi gave the prize to the local firemen.
This article was in the Casper Star Tribune this morning.
By JOHN MORGAN
A massive, record-book sized bull elk met its match late last month when it was hit by a vehicle at night.
Marge and Mark Zupan of Powell struck the 700- to 800-pound animal Nov. 29 about a mile north of Meeteetse on Wyoming Highway 120, according to a story in the Powell Tribune.
"All of a sudden I see this big, black animal," said Marge Zupan, who was driving. "Then all I could see was horns everywhere."
The crash crumpled the front of the 3,200-pound Toyota Camry, folding in the right headlight corner and smashing the windshield on the passenger side. The elk was killed instantly, according to Game Warden Jerry Longobardi.
"Mark, I think we hit a moose," Zupan told her husband, who had been asleep. Mark Zupan was bleeding from the nose, mouth and chin from glass cuts, Marge said. Both the Zupans were wearing their seat belts and were not seriously injured.
Longobardi loaded the carcass into the back of his Game and Fish Department pickup with the help of a deputy sheriff and four Meeteetse firemen. Longobardi called the kill "a shame" for the magnificent bull to perish in such an unfortunate and undignified manner.
"It's pushin' the record book probably," he said.
Because state law does not allow him to award the trophy head to the Zupans, Longobardi gave the prize to the local firemen.