got my "once in a lifetime" buck back

vic

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May 6, 2015
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I shot this buck on Kansas public land last year while scouting for a friend. I was sitting on top of the flint hills, the buck was chasing a doe in the bottom. The buck lost sight of his doe and saw me sitting in my brown coat on top of the hill. thinking I was his doe, the buck walked 400 yards up the hill and gave me a 54 yard shot in the wide open, he stopped at 72 where I shot him a second time and he again stopped at 112 yards which I guessed the shot and ran a 3rd arrow up him again. I will likely never see or shoot a buck of this caliber on public land again. Although he is the smallest looking 200+ whitetail I have ever seen, he officially gross scored 201 3/8".

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HeartElk1

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That is a beauty - love all the extras around the brow tines and I bet other bucks hated to fight him...
 

vic

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May 6, 2015
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North West Colorado
That is a beauty - love all the extras around the brow tines and I bet other bucks hated to fight him...
I agree. To go a little off topic here, there is a strain of 3rd separate horn (unicorn spike from the center of their forehead) bucks that are multiplying in area. Those would be the real bad ones to fight and since each year we see more of them, I would bet that 3rd spike works to jab eyeballs etc. and win fights.