Whitetail Hunts with OutWest
Most of our hunting is from ground blinds. We have both Double Bull ground blinds, Ameristep Dog House ground blinds, and we do offer API tree-stands, but finding a cottonwood that is not crooked or is in the right spot can be difficult. Most of our blinds are in funnels between bedding and feeding, but during the rut we have a lot of success with spot and stalk tactics. This type of hunt is a huge challenge but with so much open land the deer are concentrated in the thickets during mid-day, but when they head out to feed, the magic begins!
You will have the opportunity to hunt several private ranches (20,000 acres in total), all of which are located on the Arkansas River. The terrain looks open, but it’s far from it. It’s thick and nasty right around the river bottom, making it ideal bedding area. There is so little pressure, deer move all day long, feeling very safe and comfortable in their surroundings, a fact that you will soon exploit in your quest for a book deer. Ninety five percent of the land in Prowers County is private and very difficult to gain access but since you booked with Outwest Adventures LLC and you are hunting whitetails, you will have the land virtually to yourself. The real fun starts around an hour after light as the deer move off of the agricultural fields back to the safety of the thick bedding areas along the Arkansas River and then again in the afternoon as the deer start to move out from those bedding areas to their favorite feeding spots in agricultural fields up to a mile away. There is no published count on the number of Whitetails in this region, but you can expect to see anywhere from 15 to 20 deer per sitting with at least half of those being bucks. The number of mature bucks is also impressive; you can expect to see several deer in the 170 class range and above with body weights over 300 pounds. Although this area is virtually unknown for trophy Whitetails, it has produced several deer over the 200 B&C mark, including the non-typical Colorado State Whitetail Deer record (Gross 268 1/8 Net 239 1/8 B&C) This bruiser weighed in at over 315 lbs. How is this possible you ask, well these deer have cover, water, little hunting/predator pressure, food, genetics out of Kansas and Nebraska, and most importantly the time it takes to mature, this all adds up to an undiscovered treasure in a very unlikely place. We book a limited number of hunters. The majority of our hunters are looking for a book whitetail, so the younger bucks are passed up allowing them to grow to their true potential. We know how important it is to keep the health of the deer population in check and work with our landowners to ensure only mature deer are harvested.
