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Mike Evenson The Kadlec Buck # 4 B&C all time inside spread

This is your host of Whitetail Rendezvous, Bruce Hutcheon. And I’m sitting up in North Central, Wisconsin with Mike Evenson. Mike Evenson the Kadlec Buck # 4 B&C all time inside spread. Mike brought over a rack that you’ll be able to see on our website coming up just in a couple of days but this is a spectacular white-tailed deer. It’s the fourth largest inside spread at thirty and five-eighths that has been recorded with the Boone and Crockett Club. Mike, welcome to the show.

Mike: Thank you.

Bruce: So Mike, let’s just go back and talk about how many years you actually hunted this deer until you found it, unfortunately or fortunately for the deer, it died of natural causes. Let’s talk about when your odyssey began for the Kadlec Buck.

Mike: Well, it began in about, oh, it had to have been 2004 the first time I was going to put some stands in the woods. I didn’t have any weapons with me because it was preseason and he was standing broad sided in the logging road probably around I would say 50 yards or so and ever since that point, it was a mission to go after this thing.

Bruce: And what year was that again?

Mike: That was 2004.

Bruce: Two thousand four, you laid eyes on him. Was he this big at that point in time?

Mike: He had quite a spread, so he was large.

Bruce: And do you think he’s a two-and-a-half, three-and-a-half year old deer at that time?

Mike: I’m thinking it looked like four.

Bruce: Wow. And you found him. In what year did you find him?

Mike: I found him in 2008.

Bruce: Okay, so four years. So he had a pretty good long life if it’s four-and-a-half years old then he was eight-and-a-half years old?

Mike: Yeah, right in there seven-and-a-half, eight-and-a-half. He wasn’t a young deer the first time I’ve seen him.

Bruce: Yeah. So let’s talk about when you put eyes on him the first time, what did you think?

I really wasn’t thinking much because I was so amazed. I had no idea he was in there

Mike: I really wasn’t thinking much because I was so amazed. I had no idea he was in there. He was running with another one that the neighborhood called Handlebars. Yeah, that’s same inside spread. Yeah, so the genetics were there and I was amazed. I couldn’t believe it. I had an opportunity with something like that.

Bruce: Now how many years had you been hunting this track of land?

Mike: I had been in there since 1992. So I had a lot of time on the properties out there.

Bruce: And how large a track is it?

Mike: Well, my friend owns about 1,600 acres of continuous acreage, all woods and swamps and he’s…manages forest.

Bruce: Okay.

Mike: And there’s also 800 acres to the south, that was an old Boy Scout Camp that became a development, and the protective covenants on that property are also no hunting since the ’60s.

Oh, wow. So there’s a sanctuary there.

Bruce: Oh, wow. So there’s a sanctuary there.

Mike: Oh hey, yes. This deer had frequently been seen in there as well by other people.

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