Hunts
Interest | The two full time staff of the Mid-America Hunting association, the owner and operator Jon Nee and partner John Wenzel, are available to new members for recommendations of where to go turkey hunting. Their recommendations will be based on their boots on the ground experience with any lease offered as having good turkey hunt potential. That potential is easily defined. For Jon and John, they spend 12 months a year making Mid-America Hunting Association and service to the hunter their full time job running the Association as a business and not a hunting club. As a business each and every member is important and all will start off on the right direction down to include the first hunts. After the first hunts most self guided hunters will develop their favorite areas and take control from that point forward.
When a lease is recommended it is due to one of the two Jo(h)n's having seen flocks or roosts on that land. That observation may have been as recent as the day before the conversation or months earlier. These recommendations are in terms of giving the do it yourself wild turkey hunter a jump start as to where to hunt. As our turkey hunting is for wild turkeys things can change from the time of observation to recommendation to the actual hunt. The confidence the hunter has that he will receives good recommendations of where to turkey hunt is that as a business the Association requires return hunters. Good hunts ensure membership renewal. Turkey hunting recommendations will be based on the membership issue map sheets showing lease land location and available from the members' website. A sample is shown below of one map sheet.
For turkey hunting each member would reserve one numbered lease per day and all reservations may be changed by telephone call from the field during the hunt to the office.
The average turkey hunting spot is 160 acres or a 1/2x1/2 mile square, 1/4 section. In some areas the hunter may find himself on larger leases up to a full section of 640 acres and other prime spots down to 80 acres. In the case of each turkey hunting acreage size it is all based on available habitat. Those turkey hunting an 80 acre spot will not find a hunter on each 80 acre spot, it is that such farms are prime turkey hunting and we do not want to put undue pressure on such leases with hunters randomly walking through them. It all comes down to turkey hunting quality. We have the right habitat under lease and in the right region of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa with strong turkey reproduction and to keep hunt quality is to limit hunter pressure. Sub-dividing the larger leases is just one of several actions we take to preserve that turkey hunting quality.
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