Missouri Deer Hunting

60,000+ Acres of Missouri Private Land Deer Hunting Spread Across 34 Counties

You have a choice to hunt Archery, Firearm, or Muzzleloader.

Missouri deer tags can be purchased over the counter and/or online.

Missouri has a 4 point antler restriction. The majority of our leases are in counties with 4 point restrictions.

All Missouri counties, except the Ozark region are in gain farming country with corn, soybean and wheat.

All hunting nd scouting is controlled by an online reservations/map system to ensure each day you have a farm or spot reserved for your exclusive use.

Lodging is not included, but we provide a local lodging listing.

MISSOURI COUNTIES WITH LEASED ACREAGE

Select the highlighted counties to see currently available acreage and principle game.

Sample Road Map & Aerial of 150 Acre Farm

The Success Combinations

Association deer hunters typically cover a good bit of ground with the initial hunt and any scouting time. Most will scout several thousand acres. In that acreage a handful of first choice spots will be found. Typically more than can be adequately hunted on a week long deer hunt. From those spots the hunter may choose from day to day of where to deer hunt.

Those first year golden nugget spots are likely not to remain. As that deer hunter spends more time on the land he will find better spots than before. That will motivate more scouting. It will not be long until that deer hunter has more places to hunt and has moved on from first year spots.

After a satisfaction has been reached that any one hunter has enough Missouri hunting land most will continue to add a spot or two each season. The idea is that deer and their patterns change and so must the hunter.

From year to year the deer hunters with the most success will tell how they do hunt some Missouri farms year to year. These same deer hunters will also say they hunt new Missouri land each season. This is a strength of the Association that is most commented on by successful hunters. That comment continues it is only available through the Association in terms of ease of Missouri hunting land access. The Association land being readily available means more time scouting and hunting rather than knocking on doors in search of a private lease.

Missouri State Deer Hunting Regulations Brief

Archer’s Hunting Permit: two deer of either sex. Only one antlered deer may be taken prior to firearm season. Hunters may purchase and fill any number of archery antlerless deer hunting permits in open counties.

You may take only two antlered deer during the archery and firearms deer hunting seasons combined.

Deer tags may be purchased over the counter or online at MDC

One hunter may have both a Missouri archery tag good for two deer and two fall turkey either sex and a gun tag for one deer. This allows up to two bucks per season. One buck with a bow before gun season.

Missouri’s point restriction zone is centered between Kansas City, St Louis, Lincoln, Omaha and Des Moines. These cities have large populations of moneyed deer hunters without hunting land access. This makes the easy to drive from the surrounding metropolitan areas to northern Missouri region highly competitive for any deer lease. The result has been that Missouri lease land is expensive.

The point restriction zone has been in effect long enough that those with experience in this region are passing on all but the biggest 8 pointers. The number of 10 and 12 point racks seen is enough for most to hold off.

Why North Missouri Hunting has a great reputation

The most popular Missouri trophy whitetail deer are found in the agricultural region of grain farming. A food first, cover second concept for bigger racked bucks.

This brings to the front two Mid-America Hunting Association advantages:

The first is the Association does not operate a lodge. That means we are not limited to the near driving distance around that lodge for our deer land. We have the entire state of Missouri available to us for where to acquire deer lease land. When we spend that deer lease money it is where we get the most return for the hunter. That insures return hunters for years to come. That in turn builds hunter success as they become more familiar with a collection of farms.

The second advantage is the collective buying power of the Association. That power allows us to acquire the large farming operation lease lands. These farms are of the thousands of acres of land. The return to the deer hunter is these large farming companies are narrow focused on commodity farming with our effort solely on grain farms. The payback is the large farm is not diversified with livestock in the non crop land as a small acreage farmer does. This leaves a higher quality protective cover habitat for the Association deer hunter.

This second example is how some of the best Missouri deer hunting land that is out of reach of the common deer hunter is brought back under his usage. This is due to our pricing is for the average work-a-day hunter.