Hunt Choices
State Choices
Hunter Interests
| A Business, Not A ClubWe have been in the hunting lease business for the do it yourself hunter since 1965 giving us over 40 years of hunting land lease experience. And yes, the staff hunts as well and can talk knowledgably about how to make a hunt work.
Not only have we been leasing land for a long time we have concentrated that leasing effort in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. We will contract the right habitat within the right region of each state that has a history of production. We take the mystery away of where to hunt. Hunters' ChoiceThe first choice is to advanced to a favored hunt discipline of upland bird, waterfowl, deer or turkey to get discipline specific information. Another choice is to continue reading our general discussion below. Our entire approach to self guided hunts is to provide a lot of hunt options or lease land choices for the do it yourself hunter. In the simplest form we lease the private land conducting all legal and insurance requirements and the hunter hunts. He simply hunts as often as he would like, hunts on his schedule, for deer, turkey, waterfowl and upland birds and has the added adventure of exploring new lease land each trip out. We make the distinction we are a hunting lease business and not a club. As a business we strive for return hunters. That hunter also hunts without any need to contact the landowner, administer the lease or any requirement other than making a telephone reservation with the MAHA office. The hunter drives to the lease land, parks and hunts. That lease land is well documented on county road maps and are posted with unique Association signage. Within our system a hunter is not locked into a single farm or lease. For turkey and deer lease land this means that the hunter does not have to have an all or nothing proposition. He may pre-season scout any lease we hold and select which one or several he wants to hunt. And, typically he does hunt more than one lease through the entire season. And, for those that do not have time to scout we can recommend several leases for a good hunt or several.
Deer Lease Example Our deer lease approach provides us another example of how we manage lease land as we all should agree that deer change their movement patterns from pre, peak and post rut and as their patterns change so does their location. In this case each deer hunter may select and hunt several farms making up for changes between pre-season scouting and actual hunts. With our system of allowing year round access to our lease land the hunter may select the habitat across several lease parcels most likely to yield a chance at a trophy whitetail during the portion of the rut he selects to hunt. Contrasting our approach to a deer hunter locked into one deer lease either has success or failure based on the chances a trophy whitetail comes to any one piece of ground or not. For most of our deer hunters they typically scout 2,000+ acres of land settling on two to three farms to hunt from about six or nine stands. At this point the hunter will be arguing with himself as where to hunt and not settling on a single spot as occurs on a small acreage private lease. Hunt With Hunt Quality ControlsThe lease land reservation system ensure the hunter is on that lease alone during the hunt. That one aspect alone brings our hunters back year after year through avoidance of knock on door and public lands hunter mentality. All leases are posted on a county road map that is maintained up to date of all current leases on a password protected map website. When we recommend a lease to the first year member he can look at the same lease map sheet that we are referencing right down to the individually numbered farm. That system insures accuracy when recommending which land to start the membership hunt effort. |
