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Reasonable expectations about deer hunting success within a self guided hunter
organization is distinct from a guided hunt to the point we define those
expectations on this page.
Reasonable deer hunt expectations within Mid-America Hunting Association is based on leasing land within the right region of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa that has a history of production. That land must also have the right habitat for us to lease it as well. This takes away the mystery of where to hunt. We will get the hunter to the right spot to park his truck, step out and hunt. After that, he is on his own. The next facet that brings about deer hunting or hunt quality is control of hunter pressure. Having the right habitat within the right region of the state means little if hunter pressure is not checked. All lease land is numbered and sub-divided based on habitat quality and then quantity. The next evaluation is based on regional location and finally on predominate wildlife population distribution. None of the farms we lease are equal and each will be managed to ensure each deer hunter has ample acreage for a good day's hunt as well as not let hunters randomly pressure land not seriously deer hunting. This aspect of controlling hunters rather than allowing random freelancing is the final aspect of insuring all have as good of a hunt as possible. No hunter will ever be denied a chance to deer hunt during any state or federal deer season. All may hunt on their schedule. All should have several deer leases they have scouted and are prepared to hunt leaving the final decision after reviewing weather forecasts. No hunter should expect to be limited to just one farm even though any hunter may hunt a single lease every day of every trip if he so chooses. No deer hunter or groups of hunters will be permitted to block up a piece of land well in advance of their hunt only to change their mind where they want to deer hunt and have denied that lease to whomever would have seriously hunted it. New members will receive recommendations of where to deer hunt as a jump start to their membership. For the meat of what many readers would have initially expected from an article titled Deer Hunting Expectations is what quality of trophy deer can they expect to encounter? In general over the years we have each season a great number of reports of deer hunters who had eyes on trophy quality deer and the biggest deer of their hunting careers. We also have far more near shot opportunities than actual shots taken, we also have far more near hits than deer tags filled. To spend a week's worth of time seriously stand deer hunting and not to see a trophy racked buck is unusual and rare enough that when it does happen there is something more afoot than lack of deer. Seeing a good to great rack is easy, putting that rack in the truck is not always a reasonable expectation. What is reasonable for a self guided deer hunter organization is for those hunters to be more dedicated than the average public lands or guide only deer hunters and that dedication will take that deer hunter to a level where he will go years between tags filled.
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For
the rest of us Corey and Andy are the traveling hunters that put the most
possible adventure in their hunts. These are the two hunters that went to
the least productive turkey region on the worst possible day of this past
spring turkey and called in a tom though the snow.
