After years of online detective work by a 23-year-old Kansas bowhunter, the Sunflower State appears to have a new record typical whitetail buck for the first time in 50 years. But the story behind ...

on Christmas Eve with a replica of his whitetail he shot in 1995 in Franklin County. It is now officially the Kansas record for largest typical buck. Courtesy photo Matthew Daniels A 23-year-old ...

Had I shot the heaviest whitetail ever recorded in North America as well as the heaviest in my home ... and length from hind toe to tip of horns 9½ feet. I still hadn’t had a chance to skin the buck, ...