Bowhunting Season
The main Kansas deer bowhunting attraction is that deer season is during the peak of the rut and before the
Kansas gun deer season with much of the NC, NE and SE Kansas is well
suited for turkey and deer bow hunting.
Archery deer season starts in October and runs
through the end of December. No rack point restrictions required by
Kansas State law, however anyone that brings a 130 or less to the meat
locker will suffer the overt or covert ridicule of anyone present.
This is trophy whitetail deer country and that is what is expected
of every adult during any season. Having hit that
trophy deer subject let us be clear on the deer bowhunting that we
offer. It is that, just deer hunting on a do it yourself basis and
every well seasoned archery hunter we have ever met is looking to
harvest a deer for the wall as his trophy. For those hunters
traveling from trophy whitetail poor states and find that a 120
would be their personal best we offer that is the deer they should
harvest and work there way up over subsequent seasons. Let any critics be ignored as life is
short and any time we can do better at the activity that brings us
the most fun that should be emphasized in every safe, legal, moral
and ethical manner. This should be acceptable to all whitetail
hunters as that trophy hunters are not made at birth but rather grow
into being a trophy whitetail hunter. That growth is an inch at a
time. In short good deer hunting to all and enjoy the
hunt for the quality of fun to be gained. Draw Tag
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Kansas deer bowhunting
management units for the regular non-resident draw tag.
This map shows the Kansas archery deer units that
MAHA has lease land available to hunt. The application
allows for the selection of up to 2 archery deer units. With
our Association covering 5 Kansas units, any bow hunter that
places any of our 5 units as their 2 choices and
receives a license will have several deer leases to bow
hunt.
Have a look at our current Kansas deer lease acreage. Before any first year Kansas bow
deer hunter and MAHA
member completes his deer tag application we should first
talk as even though we cover 5 archery deer management units
not all five are equal in production and habitat
quality. Remembering that we are a business, not a club,
means we have a customer service approach to ensure
membership renewals. Part of that service is to ensure
self guided archery hunters go where there is more closed in terrain
rather than some of the Kansas big open regions where individual trees are
frequently landmarks all onto themselves.
The only tree on this entire Kansas deer lease suited for a
tree stand. A very good
trophy whitetail deer firearms lease (no Kansas Mule
Deer although many will recognize this as Mule Deer
country) and a very poor archery
spot. This lease as are all the leases available to all
to hunt and the archery hunter is welcome to give it a
try, however we believe most will agree with us the bow
hunter will find better opportunity elsewhere. Field
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Kansas non-resident archery deer tags are through a draw system with May being the
application month. The deer tag application is available on the
Kansas State Wildlife and Parks website or by snail mail after a telephone
request. The archery hunting tag application is on the same form as the
rifle, muzzleloader, firearms (combined modern and muzzleloader
rifle) as well as the Mule Deer tag. A cumbersome application form
that we assist our members at completing. Non-resident
bowhunting deer tag draw success rates are variable as the number of
overall Kansas deer tags available has steadily increased, the changes deer management units
make any predictor of future success based on past performance
inherently inaccurate. The best advice is to apply for the Kansas deer tag
most desired and continue to do so as it does appear that even the blind
dog does find a bone or a Kansas bow hunting deer tag in this case once in a while.
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Sent is by an a member of a skull found on a MAHA deer lease.
John and Jon,
This year has started out successful for me. I was able to harvest the best bow
kill of my life, although in bowhunting they could probably be all classified as
the best as I believe any harvest with a bow is special. The best part about
this deer was seeing my preparation and number of hours spent in the field pay
off. I have spent countless hours and $$ on gas over the summer and into the
hunting season to pattern each of the properties I have been hunting. On this
particular deer I had a trail pegged that deer were using to go to the feeding
area and back to the bedding area. I waited for the right wind and proceeded to
hang the stand that evening. Around 6:15pm this buck came in straight at me and
directly to my tree stand. I have a had a superb early season and am ecstatic to
get a deer like this in mid-Oct. Hopefully I can harvest some does now to help
out the buck to doe ratio and overall numbers.
Thanks for everything that your hunting association is. I am proud to be a
member.
Andrew
Thank you Andrew for the great feedback. Congratulations on your best ever deer!
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