“We believe this is the heaviest whitetail ever shot anywhere,” Elliot wrote me. Reliable weight records of big deer are not too common, partly because all scoring is now done according to antlers. In ...

Big deer demand a lot of things from hunters ... mess that couldn’t hit a chest freezer at 10 steps? Have a 5-year old whitetail wearing a candelabra on his head saunter into range.

A son’s multi-year effort just got his father’s 1995 buck in the Kansas record book. The son still has another goal.