| Since 1965 Mid-America Hunting Association has provided fair chase hunts. |
Our WayMid-America Hunting Association approach to self guided fair chase hunts.
Our fundamental fair chase aspects are 100% wild free ranging game animals and we lease land that has existing reproductive, protective and food habitat for upland birds, Mule and Whitetail Deer and turkey. That one element alone of reproductive cover is key to sustain our fair chase hunting.
For waterfowl, we develop wetlands thereby creating duck specific habitat that was not existent before. In this case, of duck attracting wetlands, had we not provided that basic element the migrating ducks would simply pass on by. Our duck hunts remain fair chase as the habitat is year round avaible and dose not give the duck hunter any further advantage as it still remains his challenge to decoy, call and camouflage. Residential wildlife do not receive any environmental limiting factor enhancement as a means to make the hunt easier. More simply put, we do not post feeders, plant food plots or propagate any animal there by impacting on the "free ranging" principle of fair chase hunts through a man influenced pattern of behavior. Morning's light reflecting off their wings  . "A probable bonded pair we chose to pass on...there were many more coming." Thanks David for the great picture and thought!
Read the many fair chase hunter testimonials within each hunting discipline to gauge the quality of our hunting experience. It is the hunt, not piles of birds that make memories for a lifetime. Then give us a call to find that we are hunters that also seek a good hunt. After that we will offer more member references than anyone will want to call. All that will give confidence we are what we say we are and the cost shows the do it yourself hunter cannot afford to pass us by. Self guided hunts for those that want to enjoy the quality of a good day in the field their way. |
NotMid-America Hunting Association further defines fair chase hunts by what it does not provide. These lacking aspects are no organized hunts and no hunting guide services.
The type of organized hunts that we prohibit are gang type, over pressuring hunts as is typified in the pheasant drive. This type of hunting consists of a convoy of vehicles and dogs used as a line of drivers converging on a line on stand. This type of hunting begins to encroach on the "free ranging" element of the fair chase ethic. Our hunting land access is for the do it yourself hunter to include the small family group or circle of hunting friends. While most of our do it yourself hunters do hunt alone as the hunting discipline of choice may demand that for success we also support those that seek fellow hunter companionship. It is that basic element that of enjoying the day in the field whether it be a lone hunter behind a bird dog or a deer hunter on stand that each may hunt the method he does chose. Those that seek the good conversation of like minded persons while sitting in a duck blind may also have his hunt that way.
Through not proving any hunting guides, we do not seek to deliver an advantage to any hunter through superior time in the field observation. All of our hunts are for the self guided hunter. This however, is not to be confused with our giving recommendations of where to hunt.
When we give recommendations where to hunt, it is over the telephone and identifies a state, county, unit and sometimes an individual property. This verbal guidance is based on the self guided hunter’s habitat preference and hunting discipline. After these two aspects it is a matter of what we have seen when we were on that land. This information is always historical ranging back from the previous day to the previous season. That is as far as our guidance extends. We do not enter the field with any hunter and deliver him to the animal of choice. It will be tough to meet any more thoroughly the precepts found in the fair chase concept hunt than that which we provide. 
"I wanted to send you a photo of the best hunt so far this season (middle November). We found 5 coveys and three of the 5 were very large." Kevin C., quail hunting with two very fine bird dogs took a buddy for a walk. |
MAHA Fair Chase HuntsMid-America Hunting Association contribution to self guided fair chase hunts is to provide the do it yourself hunter with the most difficult resource to be found. That is the right habitat within the right region of the three state area of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa where we lease land. 
A traveling self guided hunter needing only a place to hunt. |
Read the longer discussion of MAHA fair chase hunting ethics 
Fair chase self guided Mule and Whitetail Deer hunts Turkey hunts for eastern and Rio Grande Upland Birds hunts for pheasant and quail Waterfowl wetlands for ducks and crop stubble hunts for goose | 
