My first Kansas buck
 

Spent last week in Kansas hunting public ground that consisted of reclaimed strip mines. I stayed with my new friend whom I met through this wonderful hunting site and he was a terrific host. I hunted hard for six days, hunting almost all day each day. I finally found a hot spot(which was a road crossing: I was hiding 40 yards off the road) and set up in there at first light and saw deer on and off most of the morning, when I heard some move through down wind of me at about 80 yards. Then a little later I heard some grunts and heard brush hitting antlers. This went on for about 45 minutes before I ever caught sight of either deer. Then I finally saw the doe's ear twitch about 15 yards away in the thick brush. Then I saw the buck a few seconds later, he came in and was broad side at about 12 yards with his head behind a tree, but the brush was to thick to shoot through, so I waited. The doe then moved on to where another doe was laying(she had been bedded there for about 2 hours ~40 yards from me) and the buck followed her but i still couldn't shoot. The does then split up and one went right to me and was about 15 feet away looking right at me(Did I mention I was standing on the ground?) And the other doe moved through going down wind of me and the buck followed her. I was at full draw just begging for an opening to appear. Finally there it was, a hole about big enough to put your fist through: he was about 17 yards trotting through the brush and I released the arrow and made a perfect heart shot, he went 30 yards and was down! This all went down on 11-11 at 11 in the morning. He's an 8 pointer that scores just shy of 130 and field dressed at 205 #'s, which is really big for the area I was in. We figured he was at least 4 or 5 yrs old. I can't wait to go back to Kansas next year!

RE: My first Kansas buck
 

Congrats, nice buck!

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Good job, where at in Kansas were you hunting?
Brandon

RE: My first Kansas buck
 

that is awesome, congrats!

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Congratulations - nice buck!!!

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Congrats, beautiful buck.

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congrats!:D

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Great deer, especially for public ground.

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great buck for you area? No matter where you hunt in KS you will see Mature bucks, a few less in spots but they're there. Great buck

RE: My first Kansas buck
 

Very nice. Congrats.

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Great public land Buck, Congrats!

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Sweet. Good story too!

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Fantastic story and buck. You had a plan that worked to perfection.

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Hey you stay the heck out of my hunting territory!!:DSerisouly, where abouts in kansas were you hunting. I hunt a lot of public ground strip mined ground. My grandpa and some friends from church worked for the coal mineing company, P & M. Congrats on a good buck.

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Thats just a great story and great buck. Off the ground public land buck after 6 days of all day hunting. Awesome!

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Nice buck, congrats

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Very nice congrats

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nice buck

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The land was the public mined land area in Cherokee county in south eastern Kansas

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Thats where I'm from man. Cool! Congrats on a great buck to.

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pj, you and your wife have had a great year!!

Be sure and stop at the Illinois Deer Expo and say hi again if we've got a booth set up next year.

RE: My first Kansas buck
 

great buck!! Congratulations.

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biggest buck you saw ?

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congrats...great deer.

RE: My first Kansas buck
 

nice deer! Looks just like the 8pnt that came within 15 yds of my stand in western Ks this weekend.