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Hunting has changed.

The poster child for the asterisk approach is the so-called “Spider Bull” that the Boone and Crockett Club accepted as the new world elk record last year. That bull, shot in Utah by an Idaho hunter, was the result of a team approach to hunting, marketing and technology with the shooter playing the smallest of roles in taking the trophy.

As the story played out, videos of the big bull were taken the previous summer, teams of scouts and spotters went out to find the bull and follow it and, in the end, the hunter got a phone call at home to drive to Utah and shoot the bull.

Nothing was illegal about the taking of the Spider Bull. And, pretty much based on that, the bull was accepted as the world record.