my name is roger sellner i produce the eastman's hunting journal world record elk tour more than
a million people have the opportunity to see the great elk there is nobody that has ever found and
documented more american trophy animals than roger sellner him and i go way back probably 35 years
and i could remember i was in california to mule deer california mule deer banquet and he was there
and i was lecturing there he had this mule deer display and he had a couple 300 inch mule deer and
it was pretty good hit everybody went by and looked at all these big mule deer people have
taken them and he come up to me one morning before the show and he was telling me how he had this
idea he was going to do this elk tour i saw the vision i said oh man this is this is good you know
he could sell subscriptions to the eastman's hunting journal and we i was just starting
out this is i probably had the magazine for three years maybe and i said man this is good so i told
him i said well i might be interested in that and he said yeah yeah but i'll get a hold of ya and so
i had i didn't hear from him for three or four or six months i don't know something like that i get
a call from him he says are you still interested in this i'm looking for a major sponsor and i go
well how much is that going to be and he said ah about 15,000 dollars well back then 15 000 dollars was a
lot of money for a guy that's just struggling with a little two-bit magazine at that time
and i said okay can you sell subscriptions he said yeah i'll sell subscriptions and you get
all the money for the subscriptions and that probably will help you pay for for me well it
didn't help me pay the full amount but it really branded me this is one of the great heads that we
have on the world record elk tour we've had 40 different heads over the last five years
and there was one or two years that he went and ventured one year with the elk foundation another
year with another hunting magazine other than that all these 30 years he's been going around
with the eastman magazine to all these shows they call him the trophy whisperer because he
he would find all these heads and he was a booner crockett scorer and he scored a lot of heads
thousands of heads heads that have been sitting in garages or in somebody's house that never never
was scored and he found a lot of great trophies and then he'd put them in the tour and go around
the former world record from Hoback canyon Wyoming taken in the early 1900s for meat
it's number three in the world and it's the state record it nets 217 has a 225 typical
frame and look at the mass it's just absolutely incredible roger probably put on a million miles
on that truck of his pulling that trailer and of course he'd wear out a truck every
two years and get a new one they're all they all were dodges except one year he got
ford he'd go to those shows i'll tell you right now roger never missed a show and this is
all in the winter time traveling all these western roads that are just terrible he was always on time
everything went like clockwork there was no accidents he even went back east to congress
and roger was a nice guy hundreds and thousands of people had come up to him at these shows
built up rapports with people and hunters like you wouldn't believe every show
somebody come in and look at one of those big mule deer and go my dad got one of those hanging
in his house and bingo and he would travel all over to to score them and and pick them up and
take them and have them remounted i can remember one time we we did a show here in powell wyoming
this 12 year old came in with a little four point about like this and he looks up to roger and i'm
standing there and he says sir can you measure my deer roger says oh yeah i'll measure it it didn't
matter how big the deer or elk or antelope or sheep was or moose or any north american animal
he would sit down and legitimately score just like it was a wolves record and tell him as a great
trophy that's how he got his heads it was kind of going around to these shows and people coming in
the guy up in idaho that killed the 294 296 that had that on tour and then he had that 300 that was
taken down there by in colorado those were very impressive and i was surprised you know because
these people always get other people wanting to take their heads around and stuff but he had such
a rapport and such a first-class operation and he never got tired of doing this he did it up until
he just physically couldn't do it anymore in his 70s i'm roger sellner come see us at the shows
he loved to hunt and fish he went on several hunts with us i filmed him up montana
when we were hunting mule deer he took several mule deer on film and a whitetail for the tv show
he was just a wonderful guy god blessed me when i bumped into him there down california and my two
sons who do the magazine now they grew up with him and they always call him uncle rog he was
really part of the family he's going to be really missed not just by my family but a lot of people
the legendary deer treasure hunter roger sellner is now with his ancestors gone but never forgotten