KANSAS!!! What else is there to say, I love this place. This trip was really meant for Samantha and her dad, Joe. After Samantha moved to North Carolina she hasn’t had a chance to hunt with him as much as they would like so we set up a trip to Kansas. Brandon Brown, Samantha and I arrived a couple days early to scout and hang stands on some public land that we would be hunting for the next few days.
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I would like to thank the person who called the outfitter we were supposed to hunt with and asked him not to let us hunt the lease. Those daily phone calls kept us from hunting the lease but put us on “public” land and made this trip even more exciting! We actually found some good deer sign so we hung a couple of sets and Samantha started hunting right away. I was running the camera for her and Brandon Brown was running the camera for Joe. The first evening in the stand we got a text message that Joe had smacked a monster. Joe is from PA and has never even shot at a buck over 130. In one day in Kansas he throws down a 154” eleven point on film. Well Samantha went on that same day to miss a beautiful buck at 50 yards. In all her excitement she used her 60 yard mark and went right over its back. After a couple tears we headed to take a look at Joe’s deer.
The next day Joe decided to try his hand at running a camera. This meant one thing for me… finally I get to pick up my bow instead of the camera and go after a Kansas whitetail one more time. Joe’s filming Samantha and I’ve got Brandon with me as we set out. We were going in to a new piece of public that Brandon had scouted a couple days earlier. There were no trees so we brushed in a ground blind on the edge of a standing corn field where there were a ton of rubs and scrapes. We had been there a total of about 30 minutes and I decided to do a little rattling. I hit the horns together, snort-wheezed and sit back to relax. Well I couldn’t relax just yet, cause all I could see was a tall set of tines coming through the corn stalks. The buck was definitely a shooter and he was fixing to step in an opening at 56 yards. I went to draw my bow and my arm hit the back of the blind. He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately for him he stopped with his front half already in the open. It was now or never, he was gonna bolt. I made sure Brandon was on him and I released. The hunt is definitely a quick one and it was really quick footage but that’s exactly how it happened. As for what happened on the shot just watch it next fall on Mathew’s Life on the Road. We’re headed to Ohio next so keep us in your prayers and we’ll keep you posted. Levi
