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 ...

He badly wanted a chance at a buck, though — after four years of bowhunting, he had yet to kill one. And as he looked just beyond the group of does, he saw a set of antlers. “I watched the ...