Mid-America Hunting Association
913 773 8110
Mid-America Hunting Association is a self guided private land foot hunter organization. We operate in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. The hunts we offer are Mule and Whitetail Deer; waterfowl over wetlands for duck and goose; wild Bobwhite Quail and pheasant; Eastern and Rio Grande Turkey.
Since 1965 through today we have grown to over 200,000 acres of private land. We seek to have fewer hunters, more land per hunter with improved habitat quality. Each piece of land has been walked on by one of the two Association partners, Jon Nee or John Wenzel, in most cases more than a couple of times.
We provide the private hunting land access, recommendations where to hunt and a local lodging listing. The hunter supplies his own skill and equipment. For one cost the Association hunter may hunt any time during the season on his choice of land, in our three states for all seasons.
How it works is that if we allocate a membership that hunter gains access to an online map library of all hunting lease land. All land is identified by number. Hunters would then receive recommendations of where to hunt for what the hunter is after and also relative to habitat preferences. That hunter would then scout or hunt those spots and encouraged to scout further. Most hunters after their third season have covered sufficient ground and found more spots they like better they are not likely to be hunting their first year farms. That is when the golden nugget spots become more visible and eyes-on success rate increase.
Each hunter may plan to return to hunt the same land from year to year as well as enjoy the added adventure of exploring new spots.
We offer all this at one flat annual rate without hidden costs.
27 January
A Mid-Season Hunt
Printed with permission and late to do so because we misplaced it. Thank you Bryan for the write up.
Hi John,
I just got back from three solid days of hunting. The dogs and I had a blast.
We hunted very hard! It rained most of the time and everything was soaked with mud.
We didn't get many pheasants but took a few quail. This time Giz was the top quail dog. The photo of him on the picnic table is from two coveys he got me into. Not bad for a 10 year old pheasant dog.
[On top of Giz being ten years old Bryan was not hunting the better quail region.]
The pheasants are definitely down in this area I normally hunt; however, I'm optimistic for next year based on the hens I saw. Ruby had some really nice points on hens. The photo of her with the single was a rooster that was crippled and couldn't fly very well.
*the pics are not very clear because the camera was wet*
[Bryan shows experience with his covered dog box in the truck bed. He takes great care of his dogs. They ride in the cab with him. That is until one finds a skunk. An event all seem to encounter if hunting as a lifetime pursuit.]
The roads had become pretty much impassible. I took a photo to show what my truck looked like and just how deep the mud was. The day I took this pic it started off with freezing rain and the roads were mostly frozen, but by the end of my hunt everything thawed out. I had no choice but to 4 wheel out to a paved road, which was around 5 to 7 miles. I ended up in a ditch but was lucky enough to be next to a pasture gate. I was able to turn around in the pasture and get back onto the road. The mud was so bad and stuck to everything it took about $15.00 dollars in quarters to get the mud out of my front end and wheels so I could drive highway speeds. I'm really lucky I didn't need to be towed out!
[Mud road pictures never look as bad as they were. Wet slick mud on top of melting frozen ground equals no traction regardless of tire tread.]
I met a member named Charles, who has a couple Griffons. We ended up sharing a field because the of the roads. He hunted one end and I the other. I don't think we got any birds, but we had a great conversation and it is nice to see someone passionate about their breed of dog.
I'm already thinking about my last trip. I'm only hoping the weather is cold enough to freeze the roads.
Take care, Bryan
See what else Bryan and his buddies have done.
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