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<\/a>A Kansas hunter shot what may be a state record bull elk in northeast Kansas, and it was the first elk he\u2019d ever seen outside of captivity.<\/p>\n
Stories of a rogue bull elk showing up the past two Septembers at the same Jefferson County property where DJ Klenklen had just landed permission to hunt drove his imagination wild.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I see this thing, I\u2019m buying a tag,\u201d Klenklen, 28, said he told his wife during the summer months leading up to the season.<\/p>\n
The landowner had told him about the elk and, knowing Klenklen was an avid whitetail deer hunter, asked him if he wanted to hunt it. But before he bought a tag, he wanted to make sure it was there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re thinking of packing up, it\u2019s about 6:45, and he bugles, man, and it made the hairs stand up all over my body,\u201d Klenklen said.<\/p>\n \u201cI heard him start coming through those trees and he was just coming like a freight train. I\u2019ll never forget the sound of him coming through those trees.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s making this noise \u2014 I don\u2019t even want to try to replicate it, but it\u2019s like a drum. And it\u2019s really deep and short. And then he came out of the woods, and, man, I have never felt adrenaline like that in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI was shaking so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Klenklen said he got two clean, broadside shots at the bull at about 60 yards, and the bull didn\u2019t go far before it fell.<\/p>\n \u201cAll\u2019s you could see in the milo was his antlers sticking up, and it was a beautiful thing,\u201d Klenklen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/p>\n