Well this is the first in a series of dead Kansas buck pictures and stories I’ll bring you. It’s also the least interesting… CA-Chucky was in town for the several days last week to chase deer around with his Black Widow recurve. We’d been seeing deer at nearly every stand but the corn is still standing and that is affecting everything we do. It’s hard to get around, some stands are completely inaccessible, and the deer are not traveling the usual tree lines because they feel more secure in the corn. CA was seeing small bucks and does but no shooters anywhere I put him. So I took a flyer one afternoon and found a high vantage to glass over a giant pasture with a handful of washes running through the middle. I’d eyed this spot occasionally during turkey season but I’d never set foot there. During my scouting I found a bunch of deer feeding downhill towards the cut corn fields across the road as the afternoon went on. The next night CA headed in to scout on foot, and hopefully find a place to ambush a big buck as he worked towards the corn. It almost worked. He found a likely crossing and a great buck, but the buck didn’t follow the does in front of him and ended up passing by out of range. CA ultimately left empty handed again, but a no-doubt stud was seen there a few days later. We put the Arkansas guys over there a couple of times too, but the buck outsmarted us again.
The picture I promised?
That’s my boot just for reference. Unfortunately I found this buck during my scouting evening along the road in between the pasture mentioned above and another pasture I’ve never walked. It had a compound fracture of a back leg and no sign of poaching so I feel comfortable saying it was an accidental road kill. Great mass, decent length, average genetics. In Kansas you must get permission to remove a found deer’s head from the local game warden. I didn’t think it was worth the work for a deer I didn’t kill, but apparently someone else did. The head was removed at night a few days later, despite being relatively hard to see from the road. I’m sure they didn’t call the warden and I know they had to trespass to get it. Classless.
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