It's a great week so far. Rain Sunday brought much cooler temps and really got the chasing going heavy!
Had a 145" eight I passed on Monday, and then got bumped out of my chair by a deer running a doe yesterday midday when he banged into the back of the blind trying to cut her off!
Saw a gimpy 130 inch eight pointer that was broken up and had to weigh 240-250 lbs breed, then lay down together 35 yards from the blind.
One of our group watched a potential booner run 20 or so does crazy for an hour then the whole party got busted up by coyotes. Kansas is a hunters paradise!
Oh and shot a gobbler I called in as well! Two days to go!
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He is tagged. It's just up on the hidden thigh!
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Get em Ray!! sounds like a week to remember ahead and already made...i would quit on the gobbler:) deer are nasty and smell
This place is a circus. Every thirty minutes something new coming in- I love it!
Keep us posted....i am looking at somewhere to go next year
Ray - here is a camtracker pic of a buck a few weeks back where I hunt in KS .... they're out there
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Good luck Ray!
Go get em Ray!
Keep after them Ray! Keep us posted if you can.
Chris
Stay with em Ray!! Good luck!!
Good luck to you Ray! Way to go on the turkey!
I love Kansas!
Shoot a GOOD One RAY !!!
Raynman, did you brush in the blind or are you naked?
Ray, there is no way anyone could have fun out there :readit:
Congrats on the Turk, good luck with the deer.
Best of luck Ray! I can only imagine what that place is like this time of year. I really hope I can make it back again next year!
Tell Mike I said hello. :campfire:
Tell him yourself !!! Hey Jared !
Hey Brother Ray, shoot something BIG would ya !
Oh, and hurry up , we got a trail we need to go look at !
Good luck Ray!
Have fun with that group. And send me some texts from the stand. Always fun to "hunt along". And try to keep mike under control! You known he gets a bit excited sometimes!!
That's a trophy! I love turkey huntin.
Nice bird Ray.... Flying west to KS this morning!
Got knocked off your chair?!!
So this is a contact sport now?
It sure does sound like fun. Not hard to get out there in those conditions.
Turkey and deer, what a spot!
Sorry, double post.
Matty
We miss you this year!
Completely different than last year. Timing is everything - mike is no different this year. I warned the group first week NOT to ride with him but they did anyway! Yikes!!
Good luck Tim !
Will do Mike. Thanks for the well wishes everyone!
Biggie it's a deception camo blind and I stuck it in a group of low cedar-looking trees and the deer look but don't really seem to mind
Shhhh!... get ready Ray... I think I hear some leaves crunching off to your right...
Ron
Congrats on the Turkey....stay after those Deer.!
there are no deer in Kansas... :rolleyes:
Way to go Ray!
Alright Ray! Glad it's working out well. Congrats on the turkey! Good luck!
Ray gotta be a nice change of scenery from guiding hog hunts,congrats on your bird. :thumbsup:
Ray?... Ray??...Raaaaaaaay???
did you fall asleep in the blind? :biglaugh:
Ron
Good luck Ray, congrats on the turkey.
Ron, I quess he did, I haven't heard from him either. That's probably what happened when the so called deer ran into his blind ! He fell asleep and fell out of the chair !!!
i bet he went to dress that turkey out and fry it!
LOL,that might be it Mike.
Well Jim shanks has a deer story to tell.
I passed and passed and passed waiting for a 150" to come in range but no luck.
It was a blast though. Learned a lot and next year we'll put that to work and get it done
Well sounds like you had an awesome time, and that is what matters. 150?, well maybe on a Kansas hunt,LOL. Don't know if I have it in me. Hard to watch a 120 walk by for me. But I guess thats how you guys get those monsters.
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images of passed bucks...waiting on Mr Majestic
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I think this is the one that knocked me out of my stool banging into the back of the blind while chasing a hot doe!
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We just got bck from ks, north central, locked down all the big ones have rat holed does in the small patches of cover away from the other deer.
Find one of those patches mr big will be in there.
Lesson learned from our trip, if you find one with a doe in there go for broke, kill him or run him out of the county, we played it to safe thinking he would be in there the next am, wrong.
Let a 170 slip thru our hands, never agian.