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Entries for September 2021
Derailing the Deer Train
By Ed Waite
Whenever a deer is ‘daytiming,’ it’s time to take a walk in your underwear. Cody Cutler’s family owns 1,100 acres near Fort Scott, Kansas. Some of the acreage is devoted to row crops, and some is set aside for beef cattle. Two unfarmed parcels – of 110 and 160 acres – are off-limits to cattle, though, and are tee... READ MORE
Year-old Load Has Plenty of Oomph
By John E. Phillips
Rocky Top has a new No. 3 in the BTR’s blackpowder category. Chris Fowler apparently knows how to keep his powder dry. Using a muzzleloader stoked from the previous season, the deer hunter from Indian Mound, Tennessee, shot a buck in 2015 that shuffled Rocky Top’s records. The deer wasn’t the one he’d nicknamed Bullwinkle, w... READ MORE
Always Look Down
By Bill Sansom
Maybe they should make cloven boots for hunters, since hooves turn deer into ninjas. On the upside, being surrounded by tens of thousands of acres of public hunting ground teeming with deer, elk, bear, game birds and predators that you can hunt almost year-around is a great place for a hunter to live. On the downside, if you can call it that, decid... READ MORE
Best Halloween Ever
By Chad Carney
Looking for the deeriest zip code in Kansas? If there are trees and a river runs through it, sign the lease. When I received word in November 2014 that my company would be moving me from Cary, North Carolina, to Olathe, Kansas, I immediately starting daydreaming of hunting giant Sunflower State bucks. A colleague had recently purchased some hunting... READ MORE
Treating Himself
By Ed Waite
Yet one more reason Ohio deer hunters should forsake trick-or-treatery for a sit in a deer stand. While tilling a 5-acre cornfield in the spring of 2015, Brian Moore spotted his young neighbor approaching. As the boy drew closer, Brian realized he was carrying a deer antler. Brian stopped the tractor to admire the shed antler, which his neighbor ha... READ MORE