2011 Kansas Quail Hunting
on Private Land as a Self Guided Quail Hunter
Who We Are
Mid-America Hunting Association, a private hunting land, self guided hunter organization. We lease private hunting land for the Association's exclusive use. Hunters pay an annual fee and may hunt on their schedule throughout the entire Kansas hunting season.
What We Provide
Private hunting land access within grain farming regions providing the better Kansas hunting.
At right, 2011 Kansas quail hunting land showing the county name and the amount of acreage in that county available for hunting.
We give recommendations right down to where to park the truck, step out and start hunting. Lodging will be by local motel.
We are not a rich man's hunting club. We are for the average hunter that owns his own one to a couple of dogs that wants good hunting without hassle or guiding.
How To Make A Hunt
If allocated an Association slot that hunter gains access to an online map library of all Association Kansas hunting land. Using those maps as a basis for a telephone conversation with one of the two Association partners gains recommendation right to the point of where to park the truck, step out and begin hunting.
Most hunters will find favored areas while on the same trip being able to enjoy new to them hunting land.
Advantages
More private Kansas hunting land than daylight hours to hunt each season. All without knocking on doors or checking in with landowners.
We track where the better covey counts will be and we get the hunter to those regions.
No one will need to mix his hunting dogs with others.
Most hunt for a week of a nine day trip with two or more of those days travel days and up to seven full hunting days.
Hunting is over a mixture of terrain without snakes, cactus with cool temperatures and high humidity that allows covey and singles hunting.
All wild quail.
The Down Side
Wild quail is our highest risk hunt requiring the most seasoned dog power, shooting skills and willingness to hunt out the coveys. This may not sound like much when reading it, however it means much on that first trip where that hunter never before hunted wild Kansas quail.
The pictures at right of different Kansas hunters, different dogs all with plenty of quail is not intended to make our quail hunts to appear easy. They are just proof through their variety that the potential for a good hunt exists if all the elements are in place. Dog power being the biggest piece of it. Followed by shooting ability at a brown blur that has a flight time in range of about two seconds. The final piece is hunter fatigue and ability to perform when physically and mentally tired. The tired part comes that all may be hunting from first to last light each day of the trip and that is exercise well in excess of the average day for most of us.
Kansas Wild Quail Private Hunting Land Particulars
Kansas rivals that of northern Missouri. Between north Missouri and Kansas recommendations of where to go hunting from one year to the next are largely based on weather effects reproduction survival for that year.
Season & Limits
Eight quail daily bag limit. Season opener is the second Saturday in November running through the last day of January. Hunting from 30 minutes before sunup to 30 minutes after sunset. Resident and non-residents have the same hunting season length. Seven day a week hunting during the entire season.
More important are the limits imposed by Mid-America Hunting Association
Not public land hunting. Meaning it is not a kill as many as you can as fast as you can and cut off the other hunter approach.
Seasoned hunters in terms the hunter is focused on dog work not that he has hundreds in the bag from previous seasons. The quail hunter who seeks the quality of the day with the quail as only a necessary component to make the rest of the value.
No pre-season dog work. This is strictly a during the season hunting execution organization. The idea is to let the coveys prosper as much as they can to the time the maximum benefit may be gained by the hunter.
No commercial activities or video hunts, no dog training, go guided hunt. The only hunting permitted are individual or small group self guided hunters hunting over their own dogs.
Mid-America Hunting Association controls hunter pressure knowing it is the key once the quail supportive protective cover and food source is acquired for a good hunt. It is recognized that it is the good hunt that bring hunters back for years of hunts to come. To make all that happen no one hunter or group is permitted to overly pressure the same quail unit. The intent is no hunting to extinction of any covey. For the most part this is an occasional enforcement requirement. What is common is the seasoned Association hunter is a more conservative quail hunter.
That conservative quail hunter harvests two from a large covey, one from an average covey and none from a small covey each hunt to motivate the dog. That hunter moves on to the next covey and so on. A limit comes from as less of four coveys to the maximum of eight coveys in a day's hunt. That same hunter hunts to this limit rather than trying to bag as many as he can from every covey he encounters knowing that covey will be there the next hunt. Over the years that covey will put more quail in the bag than could be harvested from the first hunt is every quail is hunted to shot opportunity.
Protective Cover and Food Source
Kansas has been as good or better in some years than the traditional best quail hunts we have in Missouri. For 2011 Kansas is the best we have. This is due to four consecutive year long good weather years for reproduction and carry over survival.
The better Kansas hunting is along grain crop fields of milo and irrigated and dry land soybean and corn. That changes from east to west kansas with the dry land grain crops more likely in the east and irrigated large grains in the west with dry land grains being mostly wheat and milo.
The protective cover ranges from native grass, plum thickets, and scrub along crop field edges of fence lines. waterways, terraces, drainage and erosion spots.
Kansas Quail Hunting Land
Just one piece of a farm that will take hours to hunt and yield its quail. A willingness to walk, shooting skill and dog power are required to have a good quail hunt. Land and quail are waiting.
Details
In both Kansas and Missouri during up years 8 coveys before lunch have been experienced. All will also have the zero to 4 covey days that make for the long days between quail points.
Quail densities and better hunting localities are influenced primarily on regional spring rains carrying through summer second nesting.
During down years 4 covey days are possible for those that want to walk and have the bird dogs capable of locating target habitat. In any case of any hunting day, watching dogs in action is a good day and our weather and cover allows for much singles action after the covey flush.
All of our habitat is 100% natural for the self guided hunting experience the majority of hunters desire. To gain that wild quail advantage by acquiring lease land that has a history of good quail reproduction capability. Confidence in this comes from two sources. The first is that we are quail hunters ourselves over our own bird dogs. Second, we are operating a business (not a club) dependent on return customers, or members in our case. Quail hunters come back for years of hunting as we do get them on birds and do so without competition from others.
Pheasants
Kansas hunters have as a bonus to some and a consequence to others that of pheasant hunting on the same hunting trip. It is the hunter's choice that he can influence by selection of more predominate quail or pheasant regions and cover.
For those that disdain the pheasant and seek a pure quail hunt alone, that option available. However, what is more common while hunting the same cover that holds coveys will occasionally produce a pheasant or two making for a mixed bag pheasant and quail hunt. Also, for those wanting a change of pace from the crop edge fields, Kansas has plenty of tall grass prairie areas where the pheasants daytime loaf in the often told about stories of seeing 10, 20, 30 or more pheasants at one time.
Traveling Hunter Concerns
For those coming to Kansas for their wild quail hunt we understand what it means to be a traveling hunter. We will seek to get the hunter to the right spot where to park his truck, step out and go hunt.
Each Kansas hunter on his first trip will be walking onto private ground where he has not personally met with the landowner. Most hunters will feel a little twinge in their gut when doing so as all want to be legal and not offend any trespassing laws. All will get over this feeling as the maps we issue are as clear as Kansas State can make them and are the very same maps the county sheriff, local utility Co-Ops and real estate agents use to navigate the Kansas country side.
Using our issued hunting land maps with acreage posted we mark the road side corner posts and 1/2 mile posts of the properties with our signs that will give the quail hunter the confidence he is on the right hunting lease.
