Whitetail

"The 2 Footer" (Inside Spread)

A big buck from Rusk County WI has made the record book without ever meeting a hunter's carcass tag.
The wide-antlered deer known by several names, including Jim, Two-footer and Wide Boy, has scored the widest inside antler spread in Wisconsin and fourth highest in the United States, said Mike Evenson, who pulled the deer's skull and rack from a creek bed in November.
Evenson, who lives in Rice Lake but hunts in Rusk County, found no deer body or bones at the site.
Evenson knew the deer's inside spread, at 30 and 5/8 inches between the antler beams was something special. He also knew about the deer long before he found the skull and antlers.

It seems everyone in the area a few miles southwest of Weyerhaeuser knew about the wide-antlered buck.
"It was crazy out there," said Evenson, who ghost wrote a letter for the buck, basically saying that some folks' ruthless pursuits of the deer were, in the end, fruitless.
"It's a trophy deer that died of old age," said Evenson, who last week received official scoring from the Boone and Crockett Club.
Evenson said that Boone and Crockett came up with the same inside spread measurement of 30 and 5/8 inches. That's the widest whitetail deer spread in Wisconsin, said Evenson, and puts the deer at fourth place nationally, behind whitetail bucks from Kansas (two) and Maine.
Evenson found the skull and antlers Nov. 29, the second Saturday of last fall's deer gun season.
"I was just starting a deer drive, making a big circle. I saw one side of the antlers sticking straight up from a puddle in a dry creek. The other end was stuck in the frozen mud," said Evenson, who hasn't revealed the exact location of the find.
The deer had been seen, hunted, chased, photographed and video-taped for years, said Evenson. For 9 years the same deer reportedly showed up on trail cameras and-in winter- at feeders at residences along Hwy. W.
"It was almost like a pet. It was an interesting and smart deer" said local resident Ron Zahorski, who said the deer came to his back yard over several winters.
As the list of hunters who missed the buck with guns, bows and muzzleloaders grew, so did the stories of Two-footer's cunning and ability to survive. The deer once had an arrow in it and was grazed by a bullet.
Because the lower jaw was missing when the skull was found, the deer can't be aged through traditional deer aging methods.

According to Evenson's report on the deer, the buck's ability to avoid hunters was aided by its use of an 800-acre hiding spot at a former Boy Scout camp where hunting is not allowed.
However, the deer trailed outside of that sanctuary and several hunters took their shots. One hunter who lived in the area said he knocked the deer down with a gun shot, and photographs confirmed that the buck had been hit in the shoulder blade, said Evenson.
Injury-caused duress probably led to the deer growing a drop tine the following year, Evenson speculates.
The chase to bag the trophy buck reached a frenzy at times, said Evenson, including a search by someone in a helicopter. There was increased deer shining at night. Some of the attention was advanced by the posting of videos of the buck on the Internet.
"Jim (the buck) even had the intelligence to hide in long grass with a bow hunter 70 to 80 yards away on a fence line. [Jim] didn't take off until the hunter was on his way home," said Evenson.
Jeffrey Senske signed the Boone and Crockett Club scoring papers for what will be known as the Kadlec Buck, named after Evenson's son Aimsley Kadlec. The deer scored 166 and 5/8 net.
But it's the spread that is record length and made Two-footer's nickname actually an underestimation, not an exaggeration.
Of course, antlers of Two-footer's size have monetary value. Evenson has had the rack at various sport shows and has been in contact with Bass Pro Shops.
When the 2009 deer seasons begin in September, Two-footer will no longer be chased. But his legend will surely live on.

by Dave Greschner
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Whitetail Videos

Trail Cam From Waupaca County, WI

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Wayne Schumacher of Fond du Lac is shown with the 30-point buck he shot while bow hunting in Fond du Lac County. This photo was taken Monday at Dutch’s Trading Post |on North Main Street, where |he registered the deer. (THE REPORTER PHOTO BY PATRICK FLOOD)

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New Berlin, WI - Summer Buck
from a trail cam at a condo!

Iowa Muzzleloader Buck


These are controversial pictures as to whether or not the pictures are real, however most hunters agree that it is. Here are a couple reports...then you tell us what you think

"I know for a fact it is real. That is a friend of mine that got that - Scores at 212" 28" beams and 23" inside spread. First saw the buck in July and got several trail cam pictures of it. His partner that was hunting that property actually hit the deer a couple weeks earlier while bowhunting, obviously to no ill effect. He shot that buck while hunting over a 2 acre food plot of buck forage oats in a driving rainstorm."

"Iowa has a resident only season. I do not remember the exact day of that week that he shot it. The farm is located just outside Albia near where the world record non-typical was shot so there are obvious genetics going on there. I have hunted with another friend in that area and have personally seen several B & C class bucks and even a couple that would go 200+ so believe it they are out there and actually exist. Not intending to throw anything else into controversy but I am betting you will be able to see that deer in February at the Harrisburg outdoor show as he is an outfitter that participates in the show. Botth has been in the archery pavillion in past years."

Do you think it's real?

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Bucks Are Tough


Typical Whitetail Record in Alberta Canada ( Killed 2007 )
He shot this near Two Hills fall/winter of 2007. Biggest typical
whitetail take in Alberta EVER! He was on the cover of Buck magazine.
He has was offered $200,000.00 for it right away.


Shed Hunting Tips
Best places to look for sheds:

1. Winter Feeding Areas
With so much up-and-down head movements to feed and watch for danger, antlers are especially susceptible to falling off here. Plus, deer numbers are often more concentrated near food sources during the prime "shedding" months of January and February.

2. Bedding Areas
Next to feeding areas, deer spend more time in their bedrooms than anywhere else.

3. Creek/Ditch Crossings
Look for terrain features where a buck is likely to "rattle" his antlers lose, such as jumping to cross a creek, ditch or fence.

4. Major Funnels
Ravines often force deer to funnel through one area, concentrating the places you have to look. The more deer using a given path, the more likely one of those deer was a buck that recently lost his headgear.

-North American Hunting Club

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Buck Attacks Hunter

SEDALIA, Mo. — A Sedalia hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain.
Forty-nine-year-old Randy Goodman said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.
The buck rose up, knocked Goodman down and attacked him with his antlers in what the veteran hunter called "15 seconds of hell." The deer ran a short distance and went down, and died after Goodman fired two more shots.
Soon Goodman started feeling dizzy and noticed his vest was soaked in blood.
So he reached his truck and drove to a hospital, where he received seven staples in his scalp and was treated for a slight concussion and bruises.