Deer Hunting States
Deer Hunt Methods
Deer Interests | Self guided deer hunts in terms of the deer hunts provided by Mid-America Hunting Association.
Self guided hunter resources provided by Mid-America Hunting Association include private land access, recommendations where to hunt and a local lodging listing. The private land we lease for our exclusive us is maintained in excess of 200,000 acres. It is selected first by being in the region that has a good whitetail production history and has the cover and food habitat to attract and hold deer. All deer lease land is within the agricultural regions where 45 - 55% of the land use is in row crop farming, not cattle, not hay, not pasture land. Recommendation of where to hunt are provided to all new members to insure they get started off on the right land of suitable deer cover and food habitat within the region that has a good history of production for their deer hunting method of choice (archery or firearms). Recommendations may be ignored and the deer hunter is always free to conduct his own scouting of where to hunt any of our deer lease land. Local lodging is by motel, B&B, campgrounds. The listing we provide is a tailored "yellow pages" type listing of all hunter services within every county where we have hunting land. It is available and updated yearly on line. Services listed also include meat lockers and tow truck services. Value provided by Mid-America Hunting Association self guided deer hunts is that all hunters may hunt their style at their pace across as many leases, seasons and states as they have time to scout and hunt. All may archery or firearms hunt any open state regulated season in the three states, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, where we lease deer hunting land and do so on their own. Each hunter may expect an average of 160 acres, a 1/4 section of land, per day to hunt. Habitat dependent acreage may be increased greatly and on the very best farms we will break the land down into 80 acre pieces. The intent is to have sufficient acreage for good hunter separation, yet prevent random pressure on the land through hunters walking through the land without seriously hunting it. the intent is hunt quality. That same hunt quality attitude is expressed in our off road vehicle prohibition, no camping and no drive hunts. If those elements are within your desires then do not even think of calling us. We seek only serious deer hunters wanting good hunts and not those that seek to make private land a playground.
Consequences of our approach to self guided hunts largely focus on one price only the hunter can pay directly by himself and that is boots on the ground time. The successful self guided hunter orientation is that his first year is a "break-in" year to learn the land. By the third year most hunters have had enough experience ion the land they are hunting two of our three states every year with only the question of which two it will be from year to year. From that third year onwards the deer hunter is developing the golden nugget spots each farm has and his eye-on success of trophy whitetail deer increases from that point onward. Self guided deer hunter provides to himself all deer hunting equipment of aerials, stands, blinds, transportation, meals, lodging and licensing. For draw tag states we will assist with recommendations of which unit or zone to make application. |
