| Missouri's popularity as a hunter and hunting lease friendly state is due to over the counter tags and licenses. This allows any lease holder both resident and non-resident to have a place and license to hunt every season every year. Missouri's geography affects hunting lease costs and quality. Several geographic considerations will quickly focus any hunter where to lease land. The first is to understand that Missouri has the Ozark Mountain region of 70% forested land with the remainder in agriculture and the most common Ozark region farming being cattle ranching. This area has great cover habitat and will hold plenty deer and turkey and their quality is less due to the lack of body building food sources. The Ozark region has no upland birds as well as drains far too quickly for decent waterfowl experience. On the other hand, this area will allow for plenty of acreage for lease at low cost. The next region is the 55% agricultural region where row crop farming is king and larger grain crops of corn and soybeans the primary money makers. The benefit is plenty of food and the deer and turkey grow to the trophy quality we all seek. This same crop area has tree/brush lined drainages bringing cover habitat as they cut through the food sources of grain fields makes for a lot of quail hunting. Finally, the low elevations of the flatter agricultural region provides plenty of manmade and natural standing water structures attracting much migrating waterfowl. The consequence of this region is that farming is king and wildlife cover non-existent to limited to good depending on where a hunter looks. Missouri deer hunters find the four point restriction zone has become a first choice destination. This region has been in existence long enough that deer hunters seek to lease this land in greater numbers than before and lease costs per acre have risen. The bottom line is that Mid-America Hunting Association knows where these broad Missouri regions of mountains, farming and point restriction exists. MAHA further leases for the right habitat within the better agricultural region. And, we know the price to pay and what not to. The short answer if looking to hunt private Missouri hunting lease land for the self guided hunter we have it by the tens of thousands of acres that allows choice during the season of where to hunt. We have done the work and all that our hunters do is hunt without the administrative hunting lease management work.
Missouri waterfowl hunting includes several facets relative to the Mid-America Hunting Association different than what appears on most other waterfowl websites. We offer several insights into the pride of ownership, work and commitment to the hunters. Such an illustration is shown below.
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