Kansas Hunting Again.

by Mike Hames
(Norman, OK)

Kansas hunting again... Drove up after work on Thursday night. The next morning we get up, have coffee and load the truck for the 20 min ride to where we hunt.

We, my two buddies and I got started hunting with stickbows. My friend in KS has stands in a patch of woods we have hunted for several years. We walked in to a point and all split up, wishing each other good luck and made it to our stands.

I hunted a stand in a patch of Black Locust along a field of CRP grass and plum thickets where I have always seen deer and lots of sign.

After watching 4 doe and a couple of small bucks mill around me I spotted a nice buck running with two smaller bucks. I grunted twice and here they came into the locust grove. I stood, and made ready for a shot if it happened.

The buck I wanted split from the other two and made his way to my left, walking in and around a bunch of small cedars.

When he reached 12 yards and moved behind a cedar I drew. He walked out and I shot. Hitting him right of center in the left shoulder and the arrow came out behind the off shoulder.

He bucked, ran around my stand, and fell head first about 20 yds from the spot of the shot. The buck was a 8 point, field dressed 162 lbs.

The bow was again my 60", 55# @ 28" Longriver Elk longbow, with Beman Classic Carbon arrows, feather fletched, with Magnus 135grn 2-blade broadheads file sharpened.

These arrows have the weighted insert in the point end for extra horsepower on the large whitetails and hogs I hunt.


Mike Hames
Norman, OK