Pheasant Hunting
Pheasant
While we do have the typical pheasant hunting web site pictures of harvest pictures showing great hunts we also enjoy the live pheasant pictures we capture just by being out on the land throughout the entire year.
Iowa early spring rooster on a soybean field.
A kansas pheasant hunt.
Spring time battling roosters.
One just crossing the road.
Where To Pheasant Hunt - Where To Lodge
MAHA brings to the pheasant hunting upland bird hunter a wild pheasant hunting opportunity of getting on private land in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa without having to spend the time to find a place to hunt.
Not only do we provide the private pheasant hunting land, we also recommend where to hunt within each of the three states where we lease private land for our exclusive use. Add to that our lodging listing and those wanting to go pheasant hunting on their own with their own dogs and at their own pace have all they need.
While Iowa seems to lead the nation in pheasant hunting popularity when it comes to the quality pheasant hunting season the reality is Kansas has more pheasant hunting land with better habitat and with Kansas' more mild winter climate we have much better pheasant hunting right through the end of the season the last day in January.
Add to that in Kansas we also have a good quail population and the upland bird dog loving hunter will have the opportunity to hunt two upland birds on one day and for most days of every trip.
Pheasant Hunts Only
We are not dog trainers, pheasant hunting guides or allow any distraction than just to the wild pheasant hunts that we offer. This extends that our approach is for execution of the pheasant hunt and that means from the moment the hunter drives away from his home he travels directly to his pheasant hunting spot and does not quit hunting anytime there is daylight to hunt.
Most will plan a week long pheasant hunting trip and rarely hunt hard each day. Most will hunt the first 2 to three days at a strong pace and then settle in on a hard/light day routine as the realization that the pheasant hunter is not in competition with others allows for the more emotionally restful leisurely approach to pheasant hunting.
Soon after this plateau is reach the greater enjoyment of the dog and the more likely any faults during the pheasant hunt will be ignored develops into days when limits are always welcomed and never required for a good day in the field.
The single minded pheasant hunter that seeks a limit as soon as possible each day will never fully comprehend the true reason he is hunting until the seasoning of advance year gains the retrospect of what is and is not important about pheasant hunting and the hunt itself.
This while appearing corny to some distinguishes between those that hunt with us for more than a decade and those that quit after their current dog passes on or some other life impact occurs.
A similar evolution occurs with the hunter that advances on to quail hunt as a means of expanding that feeling of tranquility gained from watching a dog run its heart to the limit for the hunt. While a minority of hunters continue their bird dog quest onto such refinements as steady from point through drop with strong honor of other dogs, these few hunters have reached the ultimate level in upland bird hunting realm.
We offer pheasant hunting as it is and that is pheasant hunting to the pheasant hunter's own level of desire.
Pheasant hunting within our pay to hunt organization means that every pheasant hunter may pheasant hunting on his schedule and at anytime during the pheasant hunting season as often as he likes.
Hunters will have more land to pheasant hunt every day than time available to hunt it all.
Perhaps the key part of it all is that all of this is our pheasant hunting is without competition from other pheasant hunters. The confidence the hunter has that he will have a good pheasant hunt comes from understanding our motivation is and that is to have all hunters return every year as a tradition of pheasant hunting with us and do so for decades.
We understand that pheasant hunters will only do so if they have a good pheasant hunt and that is what we are after. This organization is run as a business with a customer service attitude far different than a hunting club atmosphere.
For those pheasant hunting over their own bird dogs be they pointers, retrievers or flushers they will enjoy the ability to hunt a variety of pheasant habitat from brush filled draws, to crop field edge to hard pheasant holding tall prairie grass fields. With these three basic pheasant habitat types all will find the combination they most enjoy for their dogs and pheasant hunting style.
The wild pheasant hunting we offer covers Kansas, Missouri and Iowa on a variety of pheasant habitat types and on more acreage than do it yourself pheasant hunters will find time to cover during an entire season.
One of the Association's staff, John Wenzel, with one of his dogs, Jack one of his better dogs at pheasant hunting.
Several behind the scenes points about this picture from one day of many while out pheasant hunting, running land contracts and meeting members one of which took this picture after sharing a one field hunt.
First, It was taken during the last week of the season in January with temperatures that allowed 'T' shirts by 11 AM. Unwanted and unusually warm adding a bit of stress to the hunt with the dog's experiencing some heat fatigue.
The water bottle seen on the hip was matched by one more on the other side and two more in the game bag, all for the dog -- each field. The weekend earlier it was frigid cold and the typical cold winter weather returned again by Thursday.
The second point is that a pheasant limit is possible anytime hunting during the season to include the very end. The reason for this is limited pheasant hunting pressure and a lot of habitat variety. However, and probably the most important point, this limit was made possible by the dog in the picture. He is one of those exceptional upland bird dogs that can find pheasants sitting or running and work both in the tall grass. One good pheasant hunting dog of acclaim by those that have seen him in action. John's other two dogs are as good on quail as this one is on pheasants and both less than this dog on the larger of the two birds.
The pheasant hunting buddy on this day with his three rotating dogs did get a limit as well, but it took most of the day and several properties. This limit in the picture was harvested on the first hunt of the day on one lease of two properties split by a road walking side by side with the other hunt buddy and his dogs.
It was the dog that earned this pheasant limit, the hunter was only in support. Other Association hunters hunted this field before and after this day with variable results and all seemingly dependent on the dog power at hand.
It has been our observation for a good many years that those that have the most success have dogs capable more so than most of working any particular habitat. This same dog is also good on quail along edges. His kennel mates while good on quail can not match Jack's pheasant hunting performance in the tall grass. And, jack is the second best pheasant dog John has had in his lifetime.
The right pheasant hunting habitat in the right region of the state is what we lease. The variable we cannot influence is dog power. Those that remain with the Association for decades are those that can develop this the type of dog power capable of effectively handing not only the bird of choice but also the habitat of choice.