Private Land Self Guided Iowa Deer Hunting
Alex
Iowa deer hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association is on private hunting lease land in zones 4 & 5, south central Iowa. All hunts are self guided deer hunts. Lodging is by local Motel.
A singular advantage to Mid-America Hunting Association deer hunting is flexibility. Each hunter may scout any time during the year, hunt during the season on his schedule and have a choice from several spots each day of where to hunt. That same effort may be repeated on the Association's Missouri and Kansas lease land.
It is this advantage of seeking out trophy whitetail deer over that of picking one spot and hoping one should show that accounts for success.
2011 Mid America Hunting Association Private Iowa Deer Hunting Land
This south central Iowa region is all within the Grand River Watershed. It is composed of soybean and corn fields cut by wooded drainage's both wet and dry. These drainage's connect many small wood patches. This terrain is repeated many times over.
Representative Private Land
We do not oversell the Association with the best land aerials. We post average land quality aerials. The average acreage per hunter per day is 160 acres. That is what is shown below at 1/2 by 1/2 mile square. Each may hunt as many spots on different leases as he has time to develop.
Typical Iowa whitetail habitat within the agricultural zone where row crop farming is king. A food first, cover second approach. The idea is deer want to be near their dinner table. Once there they will make use of any available cover.
In south Iowa the trophy deer are well known. These deer come from farm land. Not the forested hill country. In this region there will always be more acreage actively farmed than left to hunting. In this region there is plenty of large grain crop food. The other aspect of this aerial is how some of the acreage is isolated from the road. Not only do we seek to limit boots on the ground hunter pressure we also seek those leases that limit casual non-hunter pressure. It is those seemingly small out of the way spots isolated from farm yard, road and house that have the better loafing spots.
Not A Deer Hunting Club
A business, not a deer hunting club. We have a customer service orientation. That orientation is to the single minded focus of good hunts.
No surprise in this statement. It being posted here is to come to agreement on what is the Iowa deer hunting value within this Association.
That is what brings the hunter back for years of hunts to come. That returning hunter is a much better one to work with. He has the understanding that land must be worked for several seasons in order to find those golden nugget spots seemingly so hard to see the first scouting or hunting trip or two.
A good deer hunt is one where the hunter has the choice of when to hunt any time during the season. He also has a choice from day to day of where to hunt. Most will have three to five spots they would like to hunt. Most have time to hunt hard two to three leases per week long hunt. It is this choice of being able to cover more ground than just having a single deer lease above all else that most hunters state as the reason for their success.
Hunters
Association do it yourself deer hunters appear to be some of the more dedicated trophy whitetail hunters. This is in terms of their willingness to participate in the Iowa draw tag system and with their deer hunts.
The Iowa draw tag system has had the past performance of everyone that applies for a tag gets a deer tag at some point.
Iowa Draw Tags and Private Land
While some seem to have more luck than others rarely does any one Iowa deer hunter go beyond two non-draw year preference points before successfully drawing an Iowa tag regardless of type.
Never will we say we are the right deer hunting choice for any one hunter. We also will never say our success is better than any other option. We know very well from first hand in the stand experience just how hard whitetail hunting is.
Steve
This tag success delay alone seems to separate the more from the less dedicated whitetail hunter. Those willing to spend the time during non successful draw years to keep applying seem to also put in above average pre season scouting. We see that leads to a higher trophy success rate. The challenge of course is where to hunt when getting that tag. Then how to get in enough scouting time. This Association solves that at no time expense to the hunter to find a spot to hunt leaving more of his time to scout.
Typically, those surviving the Iowa tag system and do scout a good bit are hunters that have excelled beyond the 140 class. They are also the ones that go years between adding a wallhanger to their collection.
Success
Success comes from the right hunting land in the right region of Iowa.
The Association partners do not leave the hunter without ideas of where to hunt. Each piece of land has and will see one or both of the Association partners on it over the past and years to come. They cover more land, talk to more landowners than anyone else. They are motivated to insure all have a good selection of farms of where to hunt.
Brandon
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