A Moment in Time: Kansas Hunter Finds Dead Deer Sitting in Creek Bed

According to a recent Facebook post, this buck was found by a hunter in Kansas.

Travis Kelley found this buck frozen in a creek bed in northeast Kansas while bow hunting on Saturday. His neck was broken and had a puncture wound in his neck from fighting. That’s one crazy awesome scene!

Frozen?? Hmmm. Doesn’t look frozen. So I dug around a bit.

I found Mr. Kelley’s post, which is simply captioned “the crazy cool things you get to find and see only in the timber.”

He only took the two photos of the impressive young buck.

Some highlights from the comments section:

Is he froze there?

Yea dead as a door nail.

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His neck is broke and his legs are stuck in mud. From the looks of things around him he was fighting and died like that. He is tore up from fighting, his brow tine is broke, and his back and neck are all scraped up.

It was in the creek over here in Kansas where me and Darren bow hunt.

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I found it Saturday morning around 10 AM. I was walking out from bowhuntung in the morning (it was 7 degrees that morning with a windchill around 0).

It was in the same position as of Monday night; the coyotes had not got to it yet. I haven’t been back to that stand yet the wind was wrong last nite.

Pretty cool!

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.