14-year-old Bryson Allen found a massive 238-inch Kansas deadhead on May 18 while fishing Clarks Creek with friends. Although the young man hasn’t harvested a buck with his bow yet, he’s happy to know big ones like this one exist in the area.
Buckmasters scorer Brad Forbus measured the Morris County Monster at 238 5/8 inches for BTR. The 20-pointer sports a 16 4/8 inch inside spread and is the 12th-largest deadhead from Kansas to be scored by Buckmasters.
Bryson wanted to tell the story in his own words, gifting me with the week off from writing your blog (thank you, brother), but I think we can all learn from his first-hand account. Here’s how Bryson found one of the biggest deer entered into Buckmasters Trophy Records this year.
Finder’s Keepers
By Bryson Allen
I shot my first deer at 8 years old and have loved the outdoors ever since. I found my first shed four years ago, and that’s when I really started getting into shed hunting. I’ve walked hundreds of miles shed hunting this year, and the majority of it was on public land. Everything I walked until the end of the year was public land, and then I started hitting some private land.
A friend and I went to a nearby farmer and asked if we could work for shed-hunting rights. Thankfully the farmer was kind enough to say yes, and we headed out the next day and found 10 sheds.
As shed hunting began to slow down and temperatures warmed up, I started fishing and hanging out with other friends. On May 18, we decided to fish the creek that went through the farmer’s land. A buddy and I went to the creek but weren’t having much luck fishing.
I walked by a rock and told my friend that when it floods there’s usually big flatheads there. He looked over and saw a deadhead, and I saw what I thought he was looking at. He went and picked it up, and I realized that he and I were looking at different deer.
I told him to turn around because there was a bigger one behind him. At the time I thought it was around 170 inches because all I could see was its P2. I went over to pick it up and realized I had a much bigger deer in my hands. At the time, we were too excited to keep fishing, so we went home. I showed my dad, and he was just as surprised as I was.
It sucks to find them this way, but when it comes down to it, I’m glad I found it instead of it sitting in the creek and nobody knowing about it. Right now, my goal is to kill a deer with my bow, but one day I hope to harvest a deer of this size.
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