The problem with the way that the spider bull was taken down was that it was during a muzzle loader season and the shooter used a high power rifle. However he was hunting on a auction tag and like it or not it put over $400,000 into the G&F bank account. It's been long enough that I don't remember the actual bid. But that hunter has picked up 4 or 5 tags in Utah by being the highest bidder. I believe that the spider bull was his only elk tag but he has a Henry Mountain, and a couple of Antelope Island deer tags under his belt also with all of them going for over $300,000.
A neat thing on the spider bull is that I saw him around 3 years before he was shot and he was interesting at that time, and the location where they shot him at was within a 1/2 mile of where we saw him crossing a road.