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Congrats Scott!
Maybe he wasn't the biggest you saw, but he darn sure has a cool looking rack! Love the brows and mass.
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Well done Scott. Maps and aerial views were fun to speculate where you would connect on a Kansas buck.
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Nice! Good work and congrats!
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Holy browtines!
Beautiful buck. Well done and you have reason to be proud of that one.
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Wow can you say mass? Awesome deer and cool thread.
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Ooof... that's a toad. Nice one Scott.
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Damn Scott, another gagger! Great deer, proud of you! The big question (other than the obvious of why I wasn't there regardless of what Tanner says...) is why not the KS .280? Resting from the Idaho trip  Good on you!
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Stud! But I'm not surprised... As it's been said before, where Scott goes big deer die..congratulations!
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Damn Scott, another gagger! Great deer, proud of you! The big question (other than the obvious of why I wasn't there regardless of what Tanner says...) is why not the KS .280? Resting from the Idaho trip Good on you! Oh, I brought the .280 along too - it just didn't get to see duty. I marked the locale where the buck was taken below. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z345/joan4321/ranch_mark_zpsa9e87075.jpg) Back to work today. 
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Great buck Scott. Didn't understand what you said about the cuts to the SW. Did you see some good ones down there or were they hanging where you got yours? Just curious and love the brow tines.
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Great Buck Scott. Well done.
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Great buck Scott. Didn't understand what you said about the cuts to the SW. Did you see some good ones down there or were they hanging where you got yours? Just curious and love the brow tines. Kurt, What I should have said is I didn't see a lot of activity there but one of my regrets is not spending enough time with those cuts. There are wheat fields further away from both the north and south ends of those cuts and it's logical a mature deer would take up residence there. I glassed the neighbors fields where those draws come up to - that wasn't the way to do that. I needed watch further back into those things. There is another across the road (to the east) that I never even got to check out. Probably where I should have started though. The amazing thing to me was how far some of these deer would travel to feed when they've got essentially the same feed a couple hundred yards from their bedding areas! Like I said earlier, I got a real education last week. And I really enjoy that part of the experience.
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Man that's a great buck Scott. It's really cool when something turns out even better than you expected, huh? Enjoyed your photos and the excellent story. Congrats on a well earned, and very, very nice buck.
Boy did you say a mouthful here, and it happens to me all the time as well:
"And, truth be told, as much I think I know about whitetails, I got a real education on this place."
Great stuff!
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I have noticed the same thing regarding bedding areas. I have deer that come 2 miles to bed in a canyon like those when there is great thick cover between alfalfa and corn fields. I think in my spot at least, they get bird hunter pressure in those areas and tend to avoid them after getting jumped a number of times.
So I found a shed last week that had 19.75 inches of mass measurements. It looks close to yours and curious what the mass adds up to on yours if you get a chance. Very solid buck there. Those are special areas to hunt in for sure.
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way to go bud , I knew you wouldn't let us down.
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Awesome bud!
Studly deer!!
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Nice Buck. Gotta like a buck with a lot of mass.
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Pretty cool thread, nice buck
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Hi Scott
You did get you a pretty nice buck there. Heavy set of head gear.
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