Private Land Hunting

Private land hunting in Mid-America Hunting Association extends beyond the small acreage single owner private landowner. Our collective buying power gains us access to large private land landowners seeking a structured and safe organization to lease their hunting rights access. A lot of impact is contained within that last statement.

The first impact is from what people often describe as themselves being the average hunter being shut out of private hunting land access through paid hunting leases. That is not true.

The overwhelming percentage of landowners we lease their private land from are large acreage operations and exist as a business. These landowners give nothing away for free and certainly do not want their busy days punctuated with those that seek free land access. This businessman class landowner seeks to maximize his profits and hunter access will only be by payment. That is the only answer they will provide as it is about the bottom line.

The average hunter fails to see this business landowner approach as a reasonable approach as hunters cling to the idea they should receive private land hunting access at no cost to them under all conditions. The failing in this concept is that typically that same hunter would not extend his personal services or resources to any other at no cost but expect others to do so for him. That basic hypocrisy is rampant within the "average" hunter community and a failing to understand not just the changes in hunting, but our society as a whole.*

We classify the above one sided viewpoint of the world as those that see the world as they want it to be rather than recognize the world for what it really is. In this case is that large acreage landowners exist to make money and not to give assets away for free.

Proof of our large acreage landowner private hunting land leasing effort is that the larger the acreage the less the administration for that lease. We, MAHA, too exist as a business and not as a hunting club and to that end we seek the maximum gain for time and money spent. The greatest gain is from large landowners not small acreage individual farm operators. That by itself leaves many private land farms available for the knock on door free hunting land access hunters. Now the average hunter simply needs to get off his backside and spend many hours and road miles to find that private hunting land access.

MAHA is a safe organization for business based landowners due to our existence as a business entity, liability insurance coverage and structured reputation amongst our landowner clients. That by itself has gained us much private hunting land access. Compare that to a single hunter seeking privately land hunting access. The hunter must present himself in such a manner to gain the complete trust of the unknown landowner. The question then must be asked why should that landowner trust that individual hunter?

There is more to this discussion, however the two points listed are the central issue of the discussion of how private hunting land may be accessed by the average hunter. Take a look at our costs and analyze by days in the field and acreage covered. The cost we charge to spend your time hunting rather than hunting for a place to hunt is not cheap, but very reasonable.

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