Tim Nedeau can exhale after Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill allocating $16,001 to reimburse him for what he paid the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism to obtain trophy antlers from a buck illegally hunted on his property in Osage County. (Submitted/Kansas Reflector)
TOPEKA The two 9-millimeter rounds fired by poacher David Kent at an Osage County whitetail deer with bizarre 14-point antlers hit the mark.
Kent scrambled from his vehicle in the darkness Nov. 11, 2011, onto private property, decapitated the buck and drove away. Kent was in possession of what turned out to be a world-class rack in the “perfect” category with seven left and right antlers. That might have been the end to the hunting story, but the poacher couldn’t resist showing off the antlers at a big show in Topeka.