You don't have to read this to get the story behind one of the biggest bucks that hit the dirt in Kansas last season. Just click HERE.

The 14-minute Youtube video opens with a couple of high-schoolers sitting in a den and setting the stage for a short deer hunt. They're a bit like the characters Wayne and Garth from the mid-1980s SNL skit "Wayne's World," although these teenagers were born long after Dana Carvey and Mike Myers left "Saturday Night Live."

There's footage of one of the guys, Shane King, rattling, followed by glimpses of one of the biggest free-roaming bucks ever filmed as it freshens several scrapes before presenting a shot.

What begins as a self-filmed, public-access-type broadcast from a homemade studio ends with the recovery of an enormous whitetail that might well launch Shane's career in the outdoors industry.

The senior at Salina South High School knew this buck was roaming the property he hunts. He'd seen it twice, both times well beyond bow range. The 18-year-old bowhunter was so obsessed with it that he passed up numerous deer afterward, including some chip-shots at animals that would've made the rest of us drool.

Shane and his buddy went to the 80-yard-wide strip of woods on Friday evening, Nov. 2.  Shane's stand was facing north, very near the field's edge to his right. Baxter, who had already tagged out for the year, was armed with a video camera and 40 yards deeper into the creek bottom in a climbing stand.

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Tony Yoder might prefer not to dwell on the day he white-knuckled his bow and torqued the shot at the biggest whitetail he's ever encountered. But every time he visits his brother, Winston, the memories come flooding back ... of seeing the monstrous buck, shooting at it, spending an entire day looking for it, and then seeing his arrow protruding from the dead animal's back two days later.

That arrow, however, was sort of a scarlet letter. Unlike his brother's, which was responsible for the buck's undoing, Tony's arrow was a monument to a botched shot, there for the entire world to see.

"That's why we call it the Big Deuce," says Winston, putting a positive spin on things. "Because it took two Yoders and two arrows to bring him down."

Tony's shot at the Illinois bruiser came on Monday, Nov. 5, the first evening of the brothers' planned 10-day hunt in Adams County. He was hunting from a ladder stand overlooking a food plot when the enormous buck strolled within range.

He and Winston found and followed a faint blood trail to the property's bedding area before deciding they'd have an easier time tracking in daylight.

"We looked all day Tuesday, to no avail. We didn't even hunt," Winston said.

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Had 14-year-old Sabrina Nisly's tennis practice not been canceled because of the rain on Sept. 13, she might have ended her first-ever deer season with a big fat "love."

But rain it did. And because her father, Joe, decided a few raindrops never hurt anybody, Sabrina wound up winning the world cup of deer hunting.

About 5 p.m. that day, father and daughter went to a quarter-section of land where they'd erected an 18-foot-tall double ladder stand in August. The stand leans against a straight elm beside a creek that splits 160 acres of CRP. The 75-yard-wide strip of trees is a main travel corridor for deer filtering out of the CRP to the neighbor's bean field across the road and to the south.

Joe dropped Sabrina off on the road, at the creek, so she could walk to the stand while he drove on to the corner of the property to park well away from the crossing. He then walked in and joined her.

The rain lessened to a drizzle, and then stopped altogether about 6:30. Not long afterward, they spotted a couple of does wafting through the trees.

About 7:30, Joe saw a nice 8-pointer at 200 yards, pointed it out, and then told his daughter to get ready.

"I was thinking, 'Okay, this is the PERFECT deer for Sabrina,'" he said.

When Sabrina turned to look and raise her rifle, she spotted a second and much larger buck about 30 yards behind the 4x4.

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This 45-pointer from Iowa is one of three whitetails from last season with BTR composite scores exceeding 300 inches. I wrote about one of those, an enormous Kansas buck that succumbed to EHD, last week.

This buck, which succumbed to a bullet wound, grosses 309 2/8.

The man who shot it is Tim Forret, who spends far more time behind the wheels of combines and tractors than he does hunting deer.

He first saw this buck while harvesting beans in 2011. The other time he saw it, the tag in his pocket was good only for an antlerless deer.

Tim and his young son, Zach, became obsessed with the giant whitetail, and they were thrilled to collect several trail cam photos of it in the summer of 2012. They devoted many hours to scheming, setting up a new blind and sighting-in the boy's new muzzleloader, which they agreed to share.

Father and son saw the buck they'd nicknamed Ol' Two Rows (for the way it flattened corn stalks) in the flesh on Sept. 30, while harvesting beans.

Because the drought spurred an earlier-than-usual harvest, Tim was able to get a buck tag for the early muzzleloader season. If he hadn't, his Oct. 20 hunt would've ended much differently.

Tim had lost sight of a couple of bucks he'd been watching and was scanning the woods line when his gaze fell upon a third with a familiar face. Identifying it took maybe one second, even in the fading light.

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