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Does anyone out there know anything about the quality of the deer hunting on the Cimarron National Grasslands in Southwest Kansas? particularly mulies?

I have never hunted the Cimarron National Grassland. But I have hunted the Colorado side of the border right next door and I can't imagine that there's much difference. There are lots of deer and most are small, same as any place. However, last year my buddy took a nice big muley out of there and I saw the biggest whitetail that I have ever seen that was not on someone's wall. I didn't get a shot but maybe this year.

KC

If you're gonna hunt mulies in Ks.--think NORTH WEST- not South west. The Grasslands has some deer, but like said earlier-dinks. Get up in unit #1 or #2 and they got some speed goats.
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I have to keep it in southern kansas for the most part. I live in NW OK so i hunt kansas after work and days off...

I hunted there back in the late 1970s, and the mule deer, on average, were the largest that I saw in Kansas. The red dirt draws seemed to hold the biggest bucks. Of course, this is ancient history and it sounds like the bucks are being over harvested. Not many people bothered to go that far from eastern Kansas back then. Most people who wanted to hunt mule deer went to Colorado or Wyoming.

I suspect that recurrent drought has probably knocked reproduction and recruitment in the head, as well. If I were in the situation that you describe and could afford the tag without needing to harvest a deer to justify the expense, I would be up there every time I could get away. It's nice shortgrass prairie country.