Hunting Recommendations
The Mid-America Hunting Association staff, Jon Nee (owner/operator), and John Wenzel (partner) will provide recommendations where to hunt to the new member as well as those older members heading out to hunt a new locality. These recommendations will be based on their personal boots on the ground experience with that land they gain from 12 months of year working current leases, surveying surrounding potential leases and of course hunting that land.
Members can have confidence these recommendations will be sound as both Jon and John recognize the only reason any member will renew their membership is if they have a good hunt. As a business and not a hunting club it is the returning customer/hunter that is sought after.
Recommendation Validation
Besides bird dogs, it is horses that are John Wenzel's get-away-from-work diversion recreation activity. And, that is, horses without fancy cowboy hats, buckles or boots. Just work clothes and enjoying life with animals.
This is John working two weanlings (lead conditioning in this picture) on his farm in Kansas. This is his escape from the hunting work life, not hunting as many suspect.
There is much difference between taking a horse from foal to reliable riding horse compared to getting on a hunting guide's 12 year old mount. That do it yourself distinction applies fully to the Association self guided hunts. John and his partner Jon Nee simply make it possible for the hunter to enjoy his hunts.
Same horse as the one on the left in the top picture a couple of years later.
A side caveat is that many hunters want to believe that Jon and John hunt all the time and have the ideal job in the world of drawing an income from their recreational pursuit. Any self-employed businessman will tell you that anything worked as a living is not sought after during off time. In our case getting away from hunting, hunters and landowners is our relaxation time.
Add to that, that both Jon and John have family concerns just as anyone else with wife and children, other recreational activities such as youth sports, horses and family vacations plus running the hunting business and they do not have as much free time as many would suppose to hunt on their own. While they do in fact hunt and that is a great strength to the organization for getting hunters where they need to hunt it is that point that running a hunting business puts food on the table and why all may feel confident they will get good recommendations of where to hunt.
