Kansas deer hunting

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Kansas Hunting

KS Mule Deer

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Administrative

Kansas deer hunting regulations are in the throws of an overhaul intended to make deer hunting and the regulations governing Kansas deer hunting simpler and easier to access. The information on these pages has been updated with each change Kansas legislature has approved.

Kansas Deer Management Units

Kansas deer units where we have leased land are listed on Kansas State map below. The Kansas deer tag application allows for multiple choices of deer management units. Association private lands cover eight Kansas deer units.

Do It Yourself Hunts

Our Kansas deer hunting approach creates options or capability of choosing where to deer hunt is also on a strictly self guided hunt basis. Self guided hunts reach back to our hunting organization's conception in 1965.

That aspect alone screens away a great number of deer hunters that are of the "trophy room" class where a collection of multiple animal mounts is the goal to achieve a Hemmingway style or world class hunter status. That deer hunter is well suited to the guide service hunt rather than our do it yourself approach. Our approach is only successful for the dedicated deer hunter that makes the deer and the deer hunt a disciplined study.

The deer hunter we seek is the one that takes a lifetime of endeavor to learn the whitetail and knows that success is achieved over time and effort. No one deer hunter is lucky enough all the time to succeed at deer hunting over multiple seasons. Those that have recurring success have a method we have been able to observe over the years working with hunters from a multitude of states and experiences. That deer hunting success method is described in the paragraphs to follow.

Scouting

The first element of recurring deer hunting success in Kansas and anywhere for that matter is to scout. An obvious point many readers will dismiss as an overly written about deer hunting topic. Our experience has shown the same plus more.

Deer scouting is either pre season or part of the deer hunting trip itself. This is opposed to those that study aerial photos, pick a spot and first morning in the area are deer hunting from a tree stand. The missing part of boots on the ground deer and habitat scouting is frequently overlooked and common to many bad deer hunting stories.

Effective scouting grows into the next set of elements that seems to distinguish the deer hunters with more recurring trophy success than those with less.

Seth, a local deer hunting member, hunted with the help of an Association landowner tag and found one to add to his wall.

Objectivity

Kansas deer hunting success elements continue with believing it takes hunting from more than one deer stand and deer lease rather than place all hopes and effort into just one farm. Kansas deer habitat while seemingly sparse has plenty of spots and they are spread out. This open nature requires flexibility where to hunt. This is the difference between arrogant stubbornness that the deer hunter that knows better than the whitetail where to be and objective observation.

Proof of this deer hunting fact is that regardless of how good our first year recommendations may be of where to Kansas deer hunt or that first year member's scouting, by his third season he will be on entirely different leases than those he selected the first season due to finding habitat more to his liking.

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