Whitetail

Hunt WD723

HUNT KANSAS BRUISER WHITETAILS
ARCHERY $2900 RIFLE $3650
SEPTEMBER MUZZLELOADER $3500
This outfitter continues to take nice bucks on his 30,000 private acres due to low hunter impact. Most outfitters make the mistake of starting off with a great piece of property and then running way too many hunters and in 3 or 4 years it is all shot out.

This outfitter has 30,000 private-acres along the Caney River in southeastern Kansas managed for big deer. It is cattle country and not necessarily agriculture, but has plenty of acorn producing oak ridges with thick brushy bottomland.

He will take up to about 14 bowhunters per year and at press time it was early in the hunt with the best buck scoring 165. In 2010 his 14 archers took 12 bucks, with 3 grossing 160 Pope and Young or better and averaging just over 140.

Gun season had not started at press time, but in 2010 they went 10 for 13 including a couple over 150 and a 160-inch.

In 2009 they went 9 for 10, including a 185-inch deer. In 2008 the best rifle buck grossed 187 and they did take a 200-inch deer a couple years before that. Typically you should get an opportunity on a 135 to 155-inch deer and a few will get a chance at the 160 and up class.

Bowhunts start the last week of October and continue through the rut in November. 5-day hunt, but if you arrive early in the day you can hunt that evening and he allows you to hunt the morning of departure so you can get in 6 days. Price is $2,900 and includes lodging, meals and guide service.

Rifle hunts are $3,650 and start the first Wednesday in December. The first hunt is 5 days and the second hunt is 6 days.

Muzzleloader hunts should be the real sleeper on this property in late September or early October. 6 hunting days is priced at only $3,500 and in-line muzzleloaders with scopes are allowed.

He recently built a new 4,000 square foot lodge that has a big trophy room, 6 bedrooms, 2 lofts, chef, the whole nine yards. He is still going to maintain a very limited amount of hunters to insure a quality hunt. The outfitter takes everything into account when putting out his hunters, wind, current available food source, travel routes, that is why he has 28 enclosed stands on stilts with sliding windows that are totally weatherproof and 78 archery stands from lock-on, ladder stands or double bull blinds setup for his hunters. He also maintains 28 feeders on the property. This is a small, but serious whitetail outfitter that is fanatic on taking trophy quality bucks and has managed this property for several years. Draw deadline is May 31 and there are normally tags leftover. License and tag total about $400, no tax. Hunters fly into Wichita or Tulsa and rent a car. Limited availability.

2010 firearm deer Bruce Parsley

A nice bow kill buck taken on this hunt.