Nonresident Deer Hunting Continued

Group Hunters

The next do it yourself deer hunting non-resident success group that remains with the Association for a long time is the group that follows this particular composition:

	The group has previous deer hunting experience together for a variable number of years before joining MAHA. The group size generally ranges from 3 to 6.
	Some members of the group have variable degrees of success during their early MAHA deer hunt experience. (This does not always require a trophy whitetail in the truck. This includes eyes on quality racks and missed shot opportunities)
	The group remains intact providing variable members in the group experience periodic success.

In the case of these hunters the decision to remain with MAHA continues as a traditional hunt for a good many years. Degradation of this group’s membership follows one of two routes.

The first is the deer hunting group that begins to gain confidence they can successfully MAHA hunt with decreasing amount of scouting and during season field time. The motivation for this change is that it allows the group to hunt more than one state each season in an attempt to further increase the number of trophy whitetails they have the potential to harvest.

The secondary effect is that the group’s success rate declines due to a lack of time on the ground in a concentrated effort of scouting and on the hunt. At a certain point the group makes the decision to cease their affiliation with MAHA frequently making statements along the lines of: “…the whitetail hunts used to be good…it has declined recently and we plan to hunt elsewhere.”

The second cause for a deer hunting group’s not renewing their membership is the result of a group decision that they have filled to their satisfaction their quota of central mid-west whitetail deer and want to move on to another adventure by locality or animal species. This is told to us by groups that did not renew their membership responding with they are headed to Canada for a bear, moose, caribou, etc., hunt.

MAHA Whitetail Hunts

Within our non-resident deer hunters there dose exist a great deal of hunting experience, success and failure.

Each deer hunter may make his own success or achieve his own level of failure. In every case the do it yourself deer hunter will have that same opportunity to the land, seasons and the ability to make his own self guided hunt.

In the case of the honest deer hunter he will come to realize the hunt is far more failure or near success than actual tags filled. The hunter that enjoys the deer hunt itself will fulfill that expectation every trip. Those that measure success singularly by trophy racks will find more failure.

The latter group is better off spending his money on a guide to set him up in a stand or other semi guided or even a canned hunt. The difference cannot be over stated. We offer only fair chase hunts and they will always be the most challenging hunts.