9 Days at our place in Kansas

[Crappie Rage]

Well, we headed down to our place in Kansas on Nov 7th. Pulled into the mobile around 6pm. There would be 5 of us for a couple days then 4 the remainder. Unpacked and got everything ready for the morning.

It didn’t take long and deer were being seen. Of the 8 mornings I sat on stand, I bet 6 of them I had seen a deer before the sun came over the horizon.

We would shoot out a text any time we seen something. A lot of texts went out. Don’t think I sat a stand, morning or evening without seeing a deer. Maybe once.

Quite a few bucks passed on up to about 130 inches. Bucks chasing does, cruising, coming in to check out the decoy. November in Kansas, can’t wait for next year.

Well, on the afternoon of 11-11 my 75 year old uncle got the ball rolling. You have seen his picture before, but he shot the biggest buck on our property. A 5.5 year old 9 point that would score 160 and be the biggest of the trip. We have pictures of him for the last 4 years. He came from behind the stand and a quick brrrp made him stop. The double lung shot put him down in 50 yards.

[Crappie Rage]

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The next evening the brother

takes a decoy out to our recently cut corn field. A 10 pointer is out following a doe with another little buck. He doesn’t even give the decoy much of a look and heads 150 yards to the other end of the field, then decides he is going to check out the decoy a little closer. Mistake. He made it just inside the woods. We had a picture of this buck from a couple days before he was shot, but he was not on our property til then.

[Crappie Rage]

On the evening of the 14th, I had the decoy out in the same tree as McLovin. A fawn and a fork came to investigate and then a heavy 8 with stickers came out too. It was getting dark and I said if he makes it to 20 I am going to shoot. Well he made it to about 25 yard and I had brush in the way so I opted not to shoot. The Brother

drove the truck all the way to the base of my tree as there were deer in the field til dark and I didn’t want them to know I was there. Including a 10 pointer on the far side chasing a doe.

The next morning I took a stand on a different field edge and saw two forks and a racked buck early then it slowed down. So at 7:50 I left and headed to a stand in the woods about 300 yards north of the stand I saw the heavy 8. At 8:10 I was in the tree. At 8:12 my bow almost went crashing down 20 feet but I caught it in time. At about 8:50 I look to the south and see a deer feeding. Putting up the binoculars, I can see it is the same heavy 8. He takes his time but he finally ends up 5 yards away from the tree. We did not have any photos of my buck all year.

3 for 5 over 9 days, we are not in Minnesota anymore.

[Bear55]

Looks like a good time, congrats on the deer.

[Rick]

Nice deer and pics.

[NoWiser]

Congrats! Looks like a great hunt! I've got a few buddies that absolutely live to hunt deer in Kansas. I can see why!

[hockeybc69]

Pretty amazing with your results year after year.

Are u done down there or more to go yet?

Congrats doubleliver!

[Crappie Rage]

Pretty much done. Might be able to take the boy back down for a couple days of rifle season if by some miracle there is no hockey for 3 days.

[DonBo]

Awesome bucks, congrats! You guys are so fortunate to have a place like that to hunt. Thanks for taking us along.

[walleye18]

Outstanding!!! Really like that your uncle got a big boy too...making memories. Thats what its all about.

[mrklean]

Great pics nice job

[paceman]

Oustanding! Thanks for sharing!

[sticknstring]

3 for 5 over 9 days, we are not in Minnesota anymore.

Ya got that right! Congrats on another successful season in KS - bruisers!

[eyeguy 54]

yowzer!!

[hugonian1]

All studs.

Congrats on another great hunt with lots of memories to boot.

[slimngrizzly]

Just awesome! Love that uncle got the big guy! Lots of memories there! Way to go CR!

[hockeybc69]

3 for 5 over 9 days, we are not in Minnesota anymore.

Are you saying our 1 for 5 over 9 years in MN doesnt fall into the successful category?