It was Jordan Smith’s first night in Kansas, and a big, main-frame 8-pointer was already slipping through the timber toward him. An estrous doe led the way, and it was walking straight toward him. “Just breathe,” he coached himself. He’d only been sitting there for an hour, and the action was already heating up. The buck stopped to work a scrape, and then continued into the small, grassy clearing toward the doe.
“I couldn’t