Bassmaster Elite Series angler Brent Chapman passed along this photo of a whitetail buck he took in late December, just 2 days before the close of the Kansas season.
He shot the deer at about 4:30 p.m. on some land his family owns about an hour's drive from Kansas City. He'd stopped for a cheeseburger on the way out and was suffering from food poisoning when he got to his stand at about 2:30.
"If I'd had the energy to get out of the stand, I would've left (before the deer showed up)," he said. "It's funny, we go through all these measures to be so scent-conscious, and I'd thrown up three or four times right off the stand. These deer walked right by it and didn't even care."
No official measurements were taken, but he said the buck's Boone & Crockett score would have been in the 140 range.
"It was a big deer, but it was even bigger the year before – one of my buddies almost shot it then. It was an older animal and it was on its way down.
"I was sick and miserable, and the season was just about over. It just goes to show that things happen when you least expect them."
