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Post Peak RutKansas firearms whitetail deer hunting brings an advantage to the rifle deer hunter the opportunity for short and long range deer hunting often with distance over the Kansas prairie greater than some deer hunters can accurately shoot. Kansas firearms deer season always begins the last Wednesday in November or the first Wednesday in December and runs 2 weeks. This deer season is during the fall off of the peak of the rut and into the trail of the rut with the later to come into season yearling doe accounting for any bucks chasing a doe.
Lease landWhen deer hunting our Kansas lease land each hunter hunts an individually numbered deer lease for the days he has it reserved. He hunts that property alone and away from other deer hunters. That is his motivation for making that reservation, or the means by which we know where he is so we do not schedule any other for the same ground the same day. And, that deer hunting spot may be the result of that hunter's pre season scouting. If that first farm does not work out for that hunter he may pick up and move onto another. Having a selection of several Kansas deer leases to hunt on the same trip builds options allowing for a "plan B" should the first idea fail to come to fruition.
Draw TagThe Kansas firearms non-resident deer tag application month is May. The results are published by the end of June or early July and supplied to the applicant via snail mailed license or refund check. The firearms tag application itself may appear to be a complex task due to categories such as firearms, modern rife and muzzleloader, any deer meaning Mule or Whitetail, any sex or antlered or antlerless or the whitetail only firearms tag that may be either sex or not. There simply are a number of different deer tags to choose from and we will assist with that selection. The deer hunter may also apply for up to 4 Kansas deer management units in a descending list of priority. A further option of up to four hunting buddies may apply as a group where they all get the same firearms tag for the same deer management unit or none get a tag. The point of this discussion is to warn the applicant that they need to pay attention to how to fill out the deer tag application. While this may seem an obvious statement each year we have hunters that successfully draw for a doe only tag believing they have applied for a buck tag. We further advise our Kansas self guided deer hunters with which deer management units to apply for as we cover 8 of the gun units and not all 8 are equal in their production. All such recommendations will be from the MAHA staff's boots on the ground observations and for every property recommended there will be a supporting reason. Cross StateKansas modern firearms deer season is sequential to Missouri and partially overlaps with Iowa firearms deer season. What is typical of many of our deer hunters is to hunt Missouri and either Kansas or Iowa depending on tag draw success. What is not desired is to have both a Kansas and an Iowa deer tag the same year due to spreading that deer hunting effort thinly over differing states. For the most part, deer tag draw success between Iowa and Kansas is such that few have both an Iowa and Kansas tag the same season. The last consideration in this regard is that Iowa is a shotgun state while Kansas and Missouri are rifle. In the cases of Kansas and Iowa both states allow only one primary buck tag. Missouri allows a firearms tag in addition to a bow tag. |
