Subscriber Roger Gregg says he was overcharged $1,000 for a red stag trophy because his operator intentionally over-scored it and later refused to acknowledge the erroneous score. Gregg hunted red deer in
Argentina in April 2011 with Luis Bertone at La Colorada ranch in La Pampa. On the score sheet provided to Gregg, Bertone scored the animal at 361 SCI. "I truly doubted the stag was that good," he says. So, he had the antlers re-scored by an SCI measurer in the US when he received the trophy. The score was 316 SCI, which was about what Gregg says he had expected of the trophy.
"To make absolutely certain of the score, I made a 200-mile trip to have a Master Measurer with 35 years of experience also measure the stag. The Master Measurer got a score of 322. Luis' reaction to the 316 score was that the US SCI measurers do not know how to measure stags......
