This buck was taken in the Overland Park/Stanley Kansas area just South of Kansas City. The guy in the background wounded this animal last year and has several Trail Cam shots of the deer over the past two years. He (Background) has been hunting this Buck for the past two years and has actually lost a friendship over this animal. Both are employed at a very popular Outdoor Store located in Olathe Kansas and had been hunting together for a few years. An argument over who would take first crack at this animal was the cause of the seperation in the friendship (What a shame). He was not allowed to hunt the property any longer however the young man that ended up shooting the Buck had some adjacent property that the Buck also Roamed. This deer has been bait fed for two years and they had him patterned down to the minute. Great animal, but at the cost of a friendship, I don't know if that is worth it!

I hunted acorns this past weekend.. and I mean it literally! I hunt National Forest land without a farm around for miles... So find a specific buck is really hard... So early season I hunt the acrons, and this year there doenst seam to be many... The area surrounding my cabin is almost totally oaks with some pines mixed in, besides the cedar swawps, but this year they just arent producing... the area i am in is also a dry, acidy soil... but about a mile away an area that has a lower elevation and better soil had some HUGE OLD white oaks that were producing... (the oaks byt the cabin are mostly reds)... I sat on this white oak flat on saturday night and sunday morning... on saturday I had a spike with the smallest antlers ever come within 5 yards.... this deer was atleast 2 1/2 years old, but his one antler was only 3 inches and the other about 1 inch... we had 2 bad winters in a row, so maybe he just made it through winter and couldnt devote energy to antler growth... that or he injured himself..

Anyway, on Sunday morning there were 11 does all feeding around me at one time... in a few weeks if the acrons last hopefully some bucks will join them... but the area also gets hunted apparently since i found some treestands... so once too many guys hunt it the deer will aviod it in daylight... oh well... the rut will be here sooner than we know it...

And buckhunter1 if you know these kids so well and know they do everything by the book why dont you ask the kid in the back ground where he got all his neck collars and bands from geese, i can tell you that involves a bag of doritos.

What a monster! That buck blows away the thurty pointer and the rest of the Wisconsin bucks and Bestul's buck too!! Damn kids have all the luck.

Thats a knee-shaking,jawdroppin,body trembling buck. Makes me lose my breath and drop beads of sweat just looking at the pic. congrats!!!

What do you say to that but WOW!

Wow what a deer! If I had it my way I would be in the woods every day scouting and prepareing. Work and other things prevent it. So I plant my food plots and hunt the locations that have produced in the past and hope.Other than trail cameras wich I use sparringly because I am afraid they will be stolen I use travel corridors and food plots. Wow what a buck!

I don’t know, I’ve heard some pretty questionable things about this deer I don’t know much about the guy who shot it but the guy in the background has pretty poor hunting ethics so it wouldn’t surprise me if bucknut is on to something.

doesnt matter if there is controversy or not any deer this big should be looked at by the conservation department thats the only way rumors wont be started, if you shoot a deer this big i really recomend calling the conservation department your self just so there wont be any questions. does anyone know if this deer has been checked out by the conservarion department yet?

StilwellBuckNut has spotted the smoke and where there is smoke there is probably fire. For those who now the rest of the story ... please blog your insight. It is time more of us to step up and put an end to the out of season hunts, lease jumping, trespassing and poaching. The rumors have spread across the state like wildfire. Other than blind luck the story doesn't seem to fit the deer. Perhaps both young men should be questioned to the validity of a potentially record bow kill in Kansas.

Impressive! Congrtatulations!

Another thing, its a disgrace that a friendship could be lost over a deer.

There is a lot of controversy surrounding this deer, I have talked to several people who think it was shot early. At first I didn’t really think much of it then it was pointed out to me that the kid’s boots are dry and so is the ground around his feet. The deer was shot over corn in the kid’s backyard just south of 159th and mission. I hunt very close and it stormed all day opening day so it doesn’t make much sense to me that his boots are dry. It’s also obvious the deer came out of velvet within a couple days of being shot. It is possible the deer came out of velvet that late but I can’t remember ever seeing a buck in velvet much after the first week of September in this area. I’m surprised the conservation department is not investigating this deer.

It really is a shame whenever someone shoots a monster buck it is always thought to be poached or shot before season I know both of these young men and know that they are true hunters and do everything by the book. I have no doubt in my mind that this buck was taken the right way. I wouldnt be surprised if these posts about it being shot illegaly are from the young man that was such a weisel to even loose a friendship over it are posting these rediculous comments haha it makes me laugh! Congrats Parker hell of a deer.

Ok- So for everyone yellin poacher! poacher! I believe that is incorrect maybe I am old fashioned but I stand by our constitution in saying everyone is innocent till proven guilty. If the buck is legit then have it investigated to have the nasayers proven wrong, why not nothing to hide from right? I don't know the circumstances folks but I will tell you I live maybe 5 miles from where this was takin and it was pooring opening night thats why I didn't go hunting (if thats the night it was takin). But awsome deer baited or not!! Huntin is huntin and all hunters should watch out for each other!! The animal rights folks don't fight within each other if we do you just make them stronger- GOOD HUNTIN TO ALL

Great deer and he got with the bow (the real way to hunt). Unfortunately, the circumstances the deer was taken are iffy. Even if it was legal I have a problem with excesive baiting (if they baited). Real hunters use a bow and don't bait. The best are the guys that have machines on a timer that spit food out all year then come hunting season they just sit in a blind with a high powered rifle and shoot one of the many (tame) deer that have come to rely on being feed.