Anyone here have any information on Kansas bowhunting for non-residents? After searching their website I did find some information, but am wondering about chances for drawing a permit? Any help would be appreciated.

As a resident, I don't know the odds. I do know that there are outfitters with transferable tags that can be purchased at what ever the market will bear type rate. Also virtually all hunting is on private land with very little public land in the state. Be sure you have a place to hunt if you do draw a tag. I don't have a lot of experience hunting in other states, but I do hunt what I believe is excellent property and in some 25 years of bowhunting I have taken 3 p&y deer. They are not everywhere as some shows and publications would have you believe. If you do come let me know how you do. Good luck.

If you will be hunting in the eastern part of the state, you can just buy a small game license and then buy a few doe tags for $10.50 over the counter. And use that as a scouting trip, that is if you don't draw a buck tag, which last year was a non-possibility with out at least one preference point!

Howler,
The preference point thing is a large question mark for me. I've tried for years to get a Wyoming Elk tag without any luck. Someone told me they need to get a preference point system?

Anyway, another guy told me to draw a Kansas tag, I'd have to apply for about 6 years before I draw to build up my preference points? I would someday like to hunt western Kansas and pay a trespass fee (since as I understand it, thats the only way a guy can hunt western Kansas), but if it's going to take six years, I thought I'd better get started. Is this true?

I bow hunted in the central eastern part of Kansas 2 years ago. I didn't draw a tag but the guy with me did & it was our first time there. I bought a transfer tag. The outfitter didn't charge me a dime over the tag cost. I believe it was 205.50 at that time. Saw 2 shooter bucks the first morn. Pretty slow after that, but it was middle of Oct.