Hey guys Scott from KS here:  this was a highly anticipated hunt the buck we had scouted all summer long and had on trail camera was now going to be hunted by Jacob, Bud’s grandson just a few days after the youth season opened.  Taylor and I hunted this buck on the opener but when his 20 inch buck walked out we couldn’t pass him up.  By the way Taylor made an incredible quartering away shot at 250 yards to harvest his best buck to date. 

Now it was Jacobs turn, set up in the same stand that Taylor shot his buck from they watched in awe as the droptine buck walked out into the bean field only to disappear in a matter of minutes, the buck just bedded down out in the waist high beans.  After about 30 searching minutes the buck stood up and started feeding, at 225 yards. Jacob made a heck of a shot and dropped the deer in his tracks.   We searched for over an hour in the dark but those beans were just impossibly tall so we decided to come back when it was light, I started out of the field and walked right on top of him, we were only 15 yards from him the whole time.

The buck we had got on camera numerous times was actually bigger than first thought; he scored 159 inches, and weighed right at 300 lbs.  What a buck for Jacob to take as a young hunter, congrats and good luck ever topping that whopper!
 
 
Story told by Scott Engstrom

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