Private land hunting leases - Kansas Missouri Iowa self guided

Do it yourself hunts on private land hunting leases in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa for deer, duck, upland and turkey. That is what we offer and it sounds simple enough until examined more closely.

Hunting lease land is not the objective. The objective is the right habitat in the right region to lease for the best hunt quality.

Hunting leases are often believed a mode by which greater hunter success rates can be achieved and that is the primary motivation for their purchase. It is believed that running some leases means above all else productive land that is left for the exclusive use of those who pay the cost. And, it does take hunting leases, meaning multiple, to make for a good season and that exclusive use facet while attractive is also limited.

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via email: "...The first of many roosters seen today flushed when I was about 60 feet from the truck. Daisy flushed 'em, but I just mistook her birdiness for enthusiasm since the morning was just getting started. I missed them in the excitement. Over the next two hours +, she worked like a pro with numerous hens being flushed and the three roosters you see in the photos..." Joe P., an active duty Army officer between deployments.

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The experienced hunter will quickly agree that limited hunter pressure on any of the variable type of hunting leases that exist is not enough. The true answer is that all hunting leases to be worth the money paid for them must have a habitat specific to the hunting discipline of choice, within the right region that has a production history of wildlife of choice and have limited pressure. Leases of such nature begin to slim down the options.

Regional production decision criteria are often flawed through overly inflated data of a narrow range. Trophy whitetail deer give us the most illustrative example of this point.

Where to find information about the most likely area to provide the greatest opportunity to harvest a trophy racked buck? Add to that a self guided hunt for a trophy whitetail? The quick answer is the P&Y and B&C book. The correct answer is that those references provide limited data on reported not actual or complete accounting of all harvested trophy deer. There go they may serve as contributory decision lease location criteria, but not the most heavily weighted criteria for a lease purchase.

The problem grows as illustrated by Missouri’s introduction of the point restriction zone. Immediately on announcement of that zone, costs for hunting leases increased. However, we have a more defined area of potential trophy deer quality with additional accompanying consequence of increased costs generated through increased lease competition.

Magazine article writers also do a dis-service for hunting lease research by overly advertising a small area of better upland bird, turkey, deer or whatever production along with detailed descriptions of public and private land options. Typically, these articles are written in exchange for a free hunt with the article providing advertising to the outfitter or guide that handed the hunt to the author. This level of information does not lend further definition of where to lease land but diffuses where to look as magazine articles are far more where that author received a free hunt than regional quality.

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The comment above about Missouri's 4 point one side restriction zone has more behind it than a randomly selected region.

Comparing this map of the restriction zone to our Missouri lease land acreage map shows a great amount of overlap.

Our hunting leases in this area are not by accident and we have had hunting leases in this area since the 1960s. What the MDC has done is to select a region that will greatly demonstrate the value of a point restriction zone though greatly increasing the many pre-existing good racks in this region to undisputable trophy size. Once that reputation is set we expect MDC to expand the restriction zone to include all the northern half of the state as well as SW and the very SE corners, or Missouri's agricultural region complete with its better deer quality. This expansion will be welcomed to reduce the hunting lease pressure.

These are the regions of 55% crop field land use, prime for hunting leases. The remaining portions of south central Missouri are 70% + forested and that region is well known for poorer, frequently describe as "spindly" racked deer. This latter area offers the cheapest hunting leases to be found and when anyone buys cheap the results are the same.

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