The allure of giant whitetails draws hunters to Kansas from all over the country every fall. Many realize very quickly that encounters can be fleeting. (Shutterstock)
November 29, 2024
By John Taranto
It was opening morning of the Kansas firearm deer season, and there was a very real chance that a whitetail buck larger than any I’d seen in my life stood less than 200 yards away. I had just entered a box blind set on the ground atop a sandy knoll, and if I had spooked any deer at the nearby feeder on my walk in, I hadn’t heard them run off. So far so good, I figured.
By headlamp light, I carefully extracted from my pack anything I might need to have close at hand for the...
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