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21 1/2 inch inside spread, 6 1/2 inch circumference at the base. The significant difference between our ground in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa is the habitat type. This deer came from the heavier wooded region where the underbrush is a significant factor.
The common belief is that north Missouri produces the big bucks. This belief is pervasive amongst many hunters resulting in several of our southern properties going un-hunted every year. Experienced deer hunters that do hunt these properties have the potential to tag deer such as this one. 180 Class
North Carolina resident and first year hunter Robert Johnston harvested this trophy off a property recommended to him by the Association staff. The rack's green score was 180 and Robert tagged it the first morning of his first hunting day never making it to his deer stand. Robert came all the way from North Carolina for a one hour hunt. Lifelong experienced hunters/staff select our habitat. They have tagged enough deer to prove to anyone they know deer hunting. The benefit to the hunter is getting to hunt land others had to do the work to acquire.
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Whitetail hunting when given the choice from Kansas, Missouri
and Iowa most will not select Missouri. With Missouri whitetail tags available
for over the counter purchase it seems to prejudice hunters against that state.
This perplexes us as Missouri sits in the center of Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, three
very well respected whitetail states. Logic would seem to dictate that
whitetails do not know what state lines are and that Missouri would have an
equal share of trophy whitetails as the surrounding states. Local hunters agree.
