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Living in and being out on our Kansas deer hunting leases throughout the year gives advantage to our self guided deer hunters without taking away from their own deer hunting effort.

This changing of deer hunting farms results from the more boots on the ground time a deer hunter puts into his deer hunts the more places he will gain knowledge of. Half of the new deer leases scouted will disappoint him and half (generalization) will be better than what he has previously seen. Soon he will have knowledge of more good Kansas deer hunting spots than time to hunt. He then must concentrate.

Concentration

Concentration of deer hunting effort in Kansas or elsewhere is the final element common to those with the most trophy success.

While these deer hunters may scout out 2,000+ acres of deer leases is a year between land they have previous knowledge of and new to that hunter farms, most seem to settle on not more than three to five deer hunting spots and rarely hunt more than two (again generalizations).

This concentration of deer hunting effort has a secondary effect.

Once some farms have been settled on to deer hunt that same recurring successful hunter will prepare several trees, hang some stands and then spend time throughout the day remaining motionless and observing.

These deer hunters realize they are not able to have preconceived ideas of deer movement. Deer movement must be observed and then maneuvered on. The common comments have been that each deer lease has a golden nugget and it may take a day or an entire deer season or more to discover that one single setup that works. the next most common comment relative to observe a deer spot all day is that many harvest a trophy they never observed on the lease during a scouting trip.

While your MAHA staff will recommend places to go deer hunting based on their boots on the ground experience on all of the Kansas leases. With any one Kansas deer lease the reality of our recommendations is they are history from one day to a season old.

The small wood patch above and a segment of a larger deer predominate lease (80 acres total shown in the aerial) was the "golden nugget" during late summer when we spotted a bachelor group of bucks with fair to good racks. such deer sightings happen but a few times each year.

Nearby was this broken wood patch (160 acres) that while inviting for its habitat and deer sign we never saw any deer worth hunting on it.

One of our deer hunting only members who trusts telling us what he does, hunted it hard his entire trip without tag success and with much eyes on success making for a good deer hunt. The point is that toady's hot spot is tomorrow's cold spot. We will get the best Kansas deer hunt we can for all of our hunters, however it is still the deer hunter that makes his own deer hunt right down to selecting where to hunt.

More details see pages about our deer reservations and scouting.

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