What Mid-America Hunting Association brings to the do it yourself hunter is typically more self guided hunting opportunity than previously experienced and more choices than most will have time to avail themselves of. This means that hunters are no longer looking for a place to hunt, the hunter has too many places to hunt and is actually deciding by ten's of thousands of lease land acres where he will not hunt. The choices are Mule and Whitetail Deer; Eastern and Rio Grande Turkey; duck and goose and for pheasant and quail hunting in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Add to this the hunter may preseason scout, fish many farm ponds or watershed lakes makes for more options to spend time in the field than most have ever had. Add to this three states of seasons and soon the hunter is overwhelmed with choices.
The basic premise is that Mid-American Hunting Association exists for the real hunter requiring only the opportunity to get on good ground and wants that at a lower cost in terms of money and time than he can acquire on his own. For the simple action of writing a check he is given an identification card, vehicle marker and a map issue that covers all land within the Association. There is absolute parity amongst all members as all receive the same map issue and all have the same reservation system. The MAHA staff also ensures that everyone understands there are not any friendships between the staff and the hunters and gratuities in all forms are not permitted. The point being that if all are treated fairly and have good hunting all will renew their membership and that is what we are after as an organization -- a stable membership. The two central facets that sustain a stable membership is the ability to hunt as often as desired and do so on the hunter's schedule. This combined with no competition is what the hunter most wants. We recognize this and seek to sustain these two facets throughout the entire organization. The no competition facet is frequently of the most interest. We have an overall cap to the Association and subordinate caps based on the hunter's hunting interest profile at the time of application for membership. This is later double checked during the hunting season by counting the number of hunters by reservation type and state. The whole idea is never to have too many of any one type of hunter and have enough variety of hunters that allows for dispersion by hunting season. By this means is how every do it yourself hunter may hunt on his schedule and do so without counting boot prints every where he goes. These two points may further be tested by the applicant once the telephone interview is completed and before money is exchanged we will provide the names and telephone numbers of more members than any one will be willing to call. The applicant from reading the many testimonials within each hunting interest may develop his own test questions for the Association references. |
