Do-It-Yourself Whitetail Hunts
DIY Hunts — Aerial view of farms along with pricing and other details coming soon! Click HERE for available properties.
In addition to our normal Fully-Guided whitetail hunts for the 2025-26 season, we are happy to announce that we will be offering weekly Do-It-Yourself Hunts on select properties. Pricing and number of hunters per property will vary from property to property depending on topography and number of acres.
Included in Your Hunt
These are properties that we have ran our fully-guided hunts on in previous years. Hunts will run from Sunday through Friday. Arrive on Sunday to prep and then hunt through Friday evening. You will receive an OnX map with the best stand/blind locations, food/water sources, bedding areas, and travel routes. You will need to bring and hang your own stands/blinds. Climbers or saddles are a good choice on these hunts. We will be running trail cameras and pics will be available upon request.
Meals and Lodging are not included at this time. We can assist with options.
Other Amenities:
Professional photography of harvest included.
There is still a 140” Minimum on these Hunts:
There are no Trophy Fees, but we do have a 140" minimum with a $1,000.00 penalty fee. This isn't designed to be a money maker, but we want mature bucks taken and to allow our young bucks to grow to their full potential. Regardless of size, we want mature deer that are 4.5 years old or older harvested. The majority of the hunters we book are looking to take a buck that is 150” plus. As a hunter, you need to remember that a 130 inch, 2.5 year old buck will be 150/160” as a three year old and 170/180” or bigger as a four year old. Even more important than size is age – we want to harvest mature deer that are a minimum of 4.5 years old.
We have some deer that are mature that might not be 140" and those are legal deer to harvest -- maybe they are a 4.5 year old buck that doesn't have great genetics or maybe it's an old deer that has been a giant and has went downhill from age or sickness. For example, if a deer is 5.5 or 6.5 and isn’t 140” then that deer is allowed to be taken. What we don’t want, is a 2.5 or 3.5 year with super genetics killed before he becomes our next 200” buck.
Here is a link to a University of Missouri to a great article on aging deer: https://extension2.missouri.edu/g9485?fbclid=IwAR3n2J_fa5AB8mzTTv-bLBeEnH3hiKhsVNn0ETnyIMnFdt5VFYoUreZlSZQ
Here is a link to a PowerPoint presentation on judging antler size on the hoof: click HERE
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We do have a "Draw Blood" Policy in effect. If you draw blood on an animal then that is considered your deer and your hunt is over. Rest assured, every effort will be made to recover your deer. We can also assist in setting up a tracking dog or drone if needed.