I watched a good buck step out catty-corner from me on the edge of the field, 100 yards away. I ground the antlers together, and he white-flagged it back into the brush, evidently not a fighter.

2. Mule Deer vs Whitetail: Antlers This comparison clearly shows how a mule deer’s rack, left, forks, and forks again, whereas a whitetail tines grow up from the main beam. John Hafner Photography ...

There are different types of scrapes, but generally, what we see and call a scrape is a “pawed up” area in the woods or fields that a whitetail buck clears of leaves and grasses.

Approx. time: Evening hunt Location: Franklin County —— No. 2 Denny Finger of Cedar Vale, Kansas holds his state #1 record buck mount, a typical whitetail he shot in 1974 north of Topeka.

It connected and the deer went down. After the hunt, he got some help from his wife, son, and close friends to get the deer out of the field. Back at home, Stuart green scored the buck at 192 inches. ...

Within 15-20 minutes, two bucks, a small spike and one he “couldn’t even describe at that time,” showed up in the conservation reserve program (CRP) field to his east.

The Albia Buck sheds were grown by the Tony Lovstuen Buck, which was eventually harvested in Iowa. The rack was picked up in 2002, and the buck was harvested in 2003. The sheds scored 291 7/8 inches.

On November 30, 2002, then-26-year-old Maryland native Kevin C. Miller harvested his 194-0/8-scoring typical buck while hunting in Kent County from “the hotel,” the name he gave his hunting ...

"I had a bunch of does in the field and some young bucks, and there was one decent buck -- a 130-inch 8-point -- that I was trying to shoot, but he kept running around chasing the does," Keen said.

The 2024-25 white-tailed deer season opened statewide on Nov. 2. Experts are saying it’s going to be a good one with plenty of mature bucks in the field. Antler quality is expected to be average to ...