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While it may appear we may be over emphasizing watershed or creek bottom deer hunting as prime central mid-west deer habitat understand our motivation for doing so. That motivation is that a very high percentage of the trophy quality deer we have had members harvest have been harvested in some of the seemingly most in-descriptive locations. The most common of which have been creek bottoms that appear no different than the miles of other creek bottoms repeatedly found throughout some regions. The challenge is for the self guided hunter to find that one spot of the miles of watersheds where that trophy deer calls home that season.
This is north central Kansas on one of the watersheds that eventually flows into the Kansas River. Shown in late spring - early summer at full foliage to give an idea of the cover it provides. Missouri and Iowa are similar with variance due to the rolling timbered ridges of Missouri and the more open drainages of Iowa.
All three pictures are of one lease primarily for deer and turkey hunting. For those that feel they need food plots for good deer hunting take a look at the crop, that is last winter's wheat about to go golden. Last winter (during deer season) this entire farm was one very large food plot of succulent green winter wheat that in many areas was grazed down to dirt by the deer.
While there is much more creek bottom to this deer lease than we can capture on one page of pictures we selected these three as they represent three different sub-parcels of the one property. While the entire deer lease is available for scouting when it comes to deer hunting each hunter will commit to a specific sub-parcel ranging from 160 to 320 acres. That requirement to commit to a reservation to one parcel prevents random rather than actual hunter pressure elsewhere during the hunting season. All six sub-parcels of this lease are available to all deer hunters throughout the season on a first come, first served basis. Any one hunter may hunt any he may select every day of his hunt or hunt a different parcel over different days of the deer hunt. The pressure management issue is that one deer hunter may have only one sub parcel each day. Preventing hunters from randomly traveling through land he does not intend to seriously hunt during the hunting season is one means by which we keep private lease land human pressure to as low as we can make it. |
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