Iowa Hunting
Mid-America Hunting Association leases the private land for exclusive membership use. Members simply hunt without any administrative responsibilities.
2010 Iowa hunting lease land map showing acreage by county where we have private land acreage available to our membership.
Before we sign any Iowa hunting Lease we physically drive or walk it to ensure the lease has the habitat that produces good hunts.
Iowa Deer
Iowa's reputation for trophy whitetail deer is deserve.
We get to see a lot with our year round exposure to the land we lease and the land we seek to lease.
Whitetail Deer
Iowa Hunter Feedback
Perhaps the most impressive aspect about any of the success pictures on this web site is they are provided to us through the courtesy of our hunters. As a do it yourself or self guided hunter organization we are not at the point of harvest with a camera and organizational logo.
Deer hunts are in is zones 4 and 5. All of our land is available for muzzleloader, archery and shotgun seasons. Each hunter will reserve an individually numbered farm and hunt that farm alone. No one hunter is limited to just one farm. After he scouts or hunts he should have two or more with stands to pick and choose from day to day of where to hunt.
Iowa muzzleloader deer hunters have the opportunity to hunt outside of the rut from late December into January.
Iowa bow hunters enjoy peak rut season before gun season.
Being a shotgun deer hunting state makes many believe more Iowa large racked deer survive the season allowing for more eyes on and better trophy potential than other states.
Iowa Pheasant and Quail
Long running brush filled drains crossing many large grain fields allowing for the right combination of food and cover.
From the same Iowa hunter that sent in this harvest picture are some dog on point showing Iowa bird habitat pictures. In this case it was this dog's first season in the field. The comments below each pictures captured from the conversation that went with the picture delivery.
This was the cover on the farm that gave them one of the best quail hunts this seasons. Took 4 hours to cover this one spot.
Not all the cover was as thick as in the overall habitat picture seen above as there were plenty of wooded creek bottoms and fence lines.
Shooting did become difficult and bird in the bag rate compared to points dropped in several areas of this one farm.
The bottom line for this first season dog she did great. It was a good season in Iowa. We had fun. And, these pictures help with the memories.
Each Iowa deer trip allows the hunter the entire range of our Iowa hunting leases to select from of where to deer hunt. That deer hunter may hunt from one or multiple numbered private land Iowa farms and does so without competition from others. In each case of our deer lease land it is available through a system that insures efficient use of time.
Each Iowa deer hunter is encouraged to seek our recommendations where to deer hunt his first season, travel out to scout and then simply deer hunt every hour he has available to do so. In every case we will develop reasonable deer hunter expectations and never oversell the difficulty of a deer hunt. In short, each hunter will have a good deer hunting plan before leaving home for that first trip.
Our Iowa land also boarders up against Missouri's four point one side restriction zone.
Iowa deer hunting
Missouri deer hunting
Upland Bird Hunting
MAHA Iowa upland bird lease land offers the chance for both quail and pheasant hunts in a rare part of Iowa where both upland birds overlap.
Quail hunts are along the many dry drainage's of the upper fringe of the Grand River Watershed rising up out of Missouri into southern Iowa. Our Iowa quail range overlaps that of pheasant populations for a mixed bag hunt of when a dog goes on point the upland bird hunters does not know if a quail or pheasant will flush.
Pheasant hunts are along many grain crop fields cut by open brush filled drains allowing good eyes on dog action and blue sky shooting. While pheasant may be Iowa's strongest upland bird hunter attraction, south Iowa pheasant range with its bonus of overlapping quail hunts makes the southern Iowa region a good bird hunt for easy eyes on dog, easier edge habitat walking and thousands of acres available for quail and pheasant hunts without having to knock on doors.
Continued reading of the web site will reveal how we operate as a land lease business and not as an Iowa hunting club. A theme that brings parity to all members for all land access and secured for the membership use alone in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
Turkey Hunting
Our Iowa turkey hunting land does lend itself to the self guided turkey hunter. However, few take part as the Iowa spring turkey tag and hunting is by a draw system with an expensive price tag.
Those that do hunt turkey on our private land do so for the adventure of adding one more state to their list of successful wild turkey hunts. To date, over 98% of the spring turkey hunters in the Association have filled their Iowa spring tags.
Iowa Turkey
A photo taken from an Iowa bird hunter on a recent fall season hunt: "I've never seen so many turkeys. This was one of a half dozen flocks I saw in one day."
Iowa Hunter Feedback
...Enclosed a picture of my [location deleted] opening day bow kill. Pulled this guy in with two additional strutters, 32 hens and 5 jakes. Got to watch the show for another 45 minutes after I shot this bird. None of the birds spooked and continued to strut & feed. It was a memorable hunting day.
Could have arrowed another long beard at 4 yards a few hours later, but chose not to end my [location deleted] season so soon. After getting our tails whacked this youth weekend, yet again…I may be regretting that decision.
Thanks again John for all of your help. It’s already been a truly rewarding spring!!!! Steve
Pressure
Overall, our private Iowa land is relatively under used due to deer and turkey tag prices and draw limitations. That more than any reasons leaves us with the limited Iowa acreage that we hold in lease.
The upland bird hunter being a minority in the Association certainly takes the opportunity of the earlier Iowa opening season in October and earlier colder winter temperatures. However, for most upland bird hunters once Missouri opens a week later those that seek quail hunt that state while Kansas draws those that want pheasants. This leaves most of Iowa during prime deer season to deer hunters.