Quality Deer Management and Mid-America Hunting Association

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Kansas Deer

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Mike, a 20 year member with another exceptional trophy trophy whitetail. He's one of the few club members that consistently produces trophy deer hunting on foot vs. a tree stand.

If we agree that Quality Deer Management is only possible on private land where large contiguous acreage allows for a deer population to remain well within its boundaries or it must begin at the state level uniformly applied. And, within leasing land in the central mid-west where roads divide the country side into one mile squares making the section or 640 acres the average large size property combined with the most commonly bought and sold acgare being the 1/4 section or a 160 acres makes any small scale QDM program a futile effort. Then we should also agree that for Mid-America Hunting Association to attempt a Quality Deer Management system to be wasted effort.

On the up side our approach to leasing land for the self guided hunter brings into our leases those deer hunters willing to travel and pay to hunt with most seeking their own personal best trophy deer then that aspect by itself leads to lesser bucks being passed on. Our hunters being of the subclass of the self guided types are far more wanting of bigger deer than what many consider the average public lands deer hunter where the common phrase of: "If its brown its down." and "Any rack is a good rack." dominates.

The bottom line is that we offer deer hunter, we attract the self guided hunter, we are not at point of harvest to run controls and as such each deer hunter is free to enter in at whatever trophy level he is at and grow upwards from that point. Most of the seasoned hunters attracted to our organization are well beyond the ego stage of hunting and into the quality aspect of the hunt and the opportunity sought is that to get a chance at a true trophy.

John,

Just wanted to send an update from my Midwest 2007 hunt. Yet again I must commend you and the MAHA Staff for doing such an exceptional job. I am so glad that I found this organization. I had more success this year on my [location deleted] bow hunt. I hunted in [location deleted] on a piece of property that is fantastic. It is up for sale, unfortunately, and that is bad news. Nonetheless, it was an awesome hunt. As usual the big ones would just not cooperate. I saw a monster 5 x 5 almost every day that I hunted. I just could not get into position for a shot. I saw a lot of big 4 x 4's and almost got an awesome one on the first day of the hunt. On day six or seven, cant remember, this 4 x 4 came into my shooting lane at 32 yards. It was 330 PM and it was snowing pretty hard. It made for a pretty cool hunt.

Thanks, again for what you guys do. I truly get excited every year knowing that I have the ability to go out to the midwest and tackle those big deer. Enclosed are some pics of my [location deleted] bow kill. They are a little dark but they aren't to bad.

Happy Holidays

Deer food plots are also a common question to answer.