Hunt Choices
State Choices
Hunter Interests |
Size MattersWe are a large acreage hunting lease operation with a limit on the total number of hunters and monitor the primary and secondary interest of each hunter to ensure we never have too many of any one type of hunter. That limit on self guided hunters is largely dictated by that about all the two Association land managers can handle within one year in terms of hunting lease land is around 220,000 acres of ground. That amount of lease acreage within the central mid-west composed of Great Plains states of Missouri, Iowa and Kansas where agriculture is king typically means within the soft 800's on members at any time. The membership cap being soft is a result that we can always take more archery hunters for example as there are not enough in the entire USA to occupy our lease acreage. Where as our duck hunters are limited by the number of blinds we will maintain rather than wetlands lease acreage. That one aspect alone shows that while not all leases are equal, lease hunter access is in terms none are ever denied a hunt due to competition from other MAHA members. As a hunting lease business and not a hunting club we seek simple lease administration. Simplicity means efficiency and that leads to cost savings and a better value for what members pay for. While we have lease land that may fill the deer hunter's objective of the best quality deer habitat, we also cater to the turkey, upland and waterfowl hunter as well. This mulit use hunting lease approach is a matter of economics. An example would be the prime deer regions the lease land is expensive and any one member's membership cost most likely will not cover that cost per any one lease by himself, however when combined with others the net result is better habitat in better state regions. That deer hunter occupying a stand at a time on one lease will typically take a day per spot. Opposed to this is the pheasant hunter that will cover 400 to 600 acres a day on a lease that may have a gross acreage of 1,200 and that land is the cheapest to lease. For both the pheasant and deer hunter each may overlap on occasion on the same lease on different weeks. In the end it all balances as long as we do a good job of managing the membership's primary and secondary hunter interests to that of the lease land profile by region and acreage. And, it continues to be better as within our approach to private land lease operations and hunters they are not limited to one game species or lease. We have Mule and Whitetail Deer, duck and goose, pheasant and quail, Eastern and Rio Grande Turkey. Each hunter may hunt any season, on any lease in the three states where we manage lease land, Kansas, Iowa or Missouri. This lease approach to allowing all to hunt all they would like makes for a more enjoyable year as most will hunt more than one discipline. Rarely does any one hunt more than two disciplines within one year and those that do, do not have sufficient time to impact any one of those disciplines.
WetlandsOur duck hunting wetlands are enhanced pre-existing wetlands and developed by ourselves. And, just like our deer lease land our do it yourself duck hunters are not locked into just one duck blind lease or wetlands lease. We have several wetlands leases with 30+ duck blinds and every hunter has equal access to all of them. No one duck hunter can hunt them all and as all may move from blind to blind or wetlands to wetlands following the migration none will get bored with the same water.
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