Give it up for Aaron Austin a fellow THF brother, who owns "Animmal Artistry of Texas" taxidermy in keller TX. I just picked up my 188" 6/8" Kansas Monster from him. He did a knock out job!! what a work of art.

Nice deer!

thanks I hope I can top this one this year. it's going to be hard but their out there.

Nice work but pic is doing nothing for the rack if it is 188 take some better pics when you get it home Congrats

Very well done indeed.

Nice buck!!!

Deer of a lifetime

X2

how this one!

What are measurements? Nice deer but I can't see 188

I got 175 on paper but those tines are probably bigger then what your thinking.

Those red coats are hard to judge on a wall...hell of a deer...hell of deer

High 70's as well like to know measurements to see where the other inches we are missing are coming from.

Hey, if it were my deer, I would have been generous with the measurements! Nothing wrong with rounding up

And, I am not saying that this is the case here, that is a nice buck!

Heck of a deer.

I have him at 185 on paper. Don't think his measurements are that far off...this one scored 189 and some change. Pretty sure I can come up with the official score sheet if you don't believe me

Leaving room for a waffle there BOBO?

I get mid 180's on him with over 85" of tine length. His tine length and beam length is hidden in all the arc or bow in the tines/beams. His 2's, 3's and 4's all will be much longer than they appear. I would say he has 11" or more total on browtines.

Those big bodied Kansas deer will have you scratchin your head trying to score them on the hoof. Whatever he scored he is a stud of a buck and I am only slightly green with envy.

Congrats!!!

You could if a Texas deer was right next to it!!!
Those Ks deer will blow a Tx deer away!!!

The first time I saw KS deer, I was in awe of how big the bodies on them were. I had seen them in pics, but it was different when I actually saw them in person.

You are so right. First Ks deer I ever shot weighed around 225lbs and the locals called it a "small deer"!!!

Maybe if you hunt in the hill country, I am very well aware of body size of a Kansas deer, but that deer is on 24" form and we have plenty of panhandle deer on same size form just doesnt appear to have the mass, so obviously the time length is not showing in the pics.

Great buck and don't doubt it, don't really doubt the other the pics are just not good I guess it looks little thin horned in pics and times must be longer than BOBO and I discussed.

I view it as more of a difference between the average frame size of the horns than actual body size. I would wager that the mb and mass on those Kansas deer are greater, on average, than the panhandle bucks.

What is the average weight of a mature deer in the panhandle, field dressed?