| DistinctionMissouri bow deer hunting is distinctive from that of Iowa or Kansas due to a longer archery deer season starting on 15 September and running later to 15 January. The Missouri bow tag is also unique as it is good for two deer or turkey either sex and Missouri allows all to have an archery deer tag along with a firearms deer tag. The last distinction is that Missouri’s deer tags are available for over the counter or online purchase and are good statewide. All this adds up to any deer scouting and hunting plans for Missouri may be executed any time during the year with confidence of exploiting those efforts during the deer hunting season. What Mid-America Hunting Association brings to all these advantages to Missouri deer hunting is to hunt private land within the agricultural region and do so free of public land deer hunter mentality. Missouri makes Missouri deer hunting better through the Missouri Department of Conservation.
With all that Missouri deer hunting has going for it the Missouri Department of Conservation takes extra effort to make it even better. The MDC allows unlimited and very inexpensive doe tags for all and they have a four point one side restriction zone. Just these two aspects alone show Missouri leads that of Kansas or Iowa on quality deer management. In addition, to be fair, Missouri probably has the natural and financial resources to do a better deer management job than that of Kansas or Iowa. Missouri has a sales tax for conservation and with the large wooded areas created by the Lower Missouri River Basin plenty of deer habitat to allow for a larger state wide deer herd. For the bow deer hunter Missouri offers a lot of tree stand opportunities with the thickest woodlots of our three states, a large deer herd and a long easily hunted deer season.
Hunter FriendlyThere is nothing complicated about our Missouri bow deer hunting. Perhaps what Missouri does allow is pretty much guarantee that all Mid-America Hunting Association members that want to deer hunt two of our three states each season may do so. For the bow hunter that applies for the draw tags in Kansas and Iowa every year they rarely get a tag in both Kansas and Iowa. With Missouri bow deer season having a break during the middle two weeks of November, peak rut, for the Missouri firearms season the bow deer hunter with either a Kansas or Iowa deer tag )both Kansas and Iowa archery season is during the peak rut before gun seasons) will be able to peak rut deer hunt in addition to Missouri pre, early, trail and post rut season. The short of it is that every bow deer hunter may be deer hunting any portion the rut as well as pre and post rut. Not many can say they have the type of land access to be able to enjoy that much time in a stand. With our system not limiting any deer hunter to one lease, one state or one season all may hunt several farms rather than watch the same trees each time out. Even with as easy as Missouri bow deer hunting is, it is the archery hunter that must still make his deer hunt. The common approach is to jump right in and start scouting. It is common for bow hunters to scout in excess of 2,000 acres each year and it is the bow deer hunter that does scout more than the firearms deer hunter or any other. Even with the scouting time, the bow deer hunter actually hunts the fewest leases. It is common for the majority of the bow deer hunters to hunt just two farms the entire season. Usually between two leases, the deer hunter has enough stand locations to accommodate any wind direction. Those bow deer hunters that do expand out to a third or more leases fall into two categories. The first is the deer hunter early in his membership career that just has not yet settled in on a collection of farms. The second is the diligent deer hunter that in spite of his best pre-season and pre-hunt efforts that first one or two leases just does not come to fruition. After spending enough time in stand on any one deer lease should it not work under Mid-America Hunting Associations approach there are always options. Typically, that option is to move onto another lease that may not have been a first choice deer hunting spot, but one that certainly was good enough to keep in mind. With the ease that Missouri State allows all that want to deer hunt the chance to hunt and with Mid-America Hunting Association private deer hunting lease land there is little reason not to be deer hunting each season. Further research of this website and giving us a call to discuss deer hunting plans is all good and expected. However, no matter how anyone cuts it, it will come down to that all will have to put their money down and take their chances. |
