After drawing a Kansas muzzleloader tag, Jake spent time scouting and slept in his truck while trying to locate the buck of his dreams. ( Photo courtesy of Jake Clark.)
October 02, 2026
By Clifford Neames
“After I drew my permit for the Kansas Muzzleloader season, I used OnX to look for public lands that might hold good bucks”, Jake Clark says. “Then I borrowed a CVA .50-caliber muzzleloader from a friend and drove down from Michigan on a solo hunt.”
Jake spent the five days before the season opened scouting and sleeping in his truck.
“On Thursday, right before it got dark, I spotted a huge buck with a drop tine and plenty of trash on his rack.” “He was stepping out of low spot headed to a soybean patch”, he recalls.
Over the next three days Jake checked out fifteen more places, returning each afternoon to glass for the big...
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