Iowa upland bird hunting land

Pheasant & Quail

Iowa upland bird hunting is well known to the pheasant hunter and ignored by the quail hunter for its mixed bag upland bird hunting region of equally good pheasant and quail hunting. That is in Iowa's south central region.

Recognizing that with MAHA's approach to leasing private upland bird land is not restricted to the short driving distance around a lodge. We make all of Iowa available to us. We chose to lease land where we get the most return for our money. In terms of Iowa upland bird hunting that best return is from south central Iowa with its overlapping pheasant and quail populations.

Iowa county names and acres that we lease for our exclusive member/hunter use. The area shown covers the upper reaches of the Grand River Watershed coming north from Missouri. This region has its crop fields cut heavily by drainages both brushed in for better pheasant and timbered for quail hunts.

Lodging is by local motel. Even with just 19,000 acres we would recommend to the new member where to park his truck, step out and hunt as a means of ensuring he starts off right and will seek to renew his membership for years to come.

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We also seek the upland bird hunter that trains and hunts his own bird dogs for a number of reasons. The foremost reason is that kind of hunter seeks most a great day of dog work on wild birds. This is the kind of hunter that fits our approach to paid private hunting land access, or the one that just requires the access and will take his hunt from there.

We will provide the private land access, a local lodging listing and recommendations for where to park the truck, step out and hunt. After that the hunter makes his own hunt.

What most think of when discussing Iowa upland bird hunting. A spring time rooster. This picture was taken in early May.

Private not Public

This one concept, control of pressure, means more about our upland bird hunting than all else. Hunters seek us out for private upland bird hunting land which means limited hunter pressure. We manage that hunter pressure by a number of means. Most notably a distribution system that allows all member the same access to all land without allowing any of that land to be over hunted.

Pressure includes the number of bird hunters and proximity of field days each unit of land receives within any period of time. No pre season dog work at all. No commercial bird dog activity of any description at any time and on and on. All our efforts keep to the front the only option that we provide and that is wild birds for the do it yourself hunter hunting over his own dogs during the season. That is it, do not ask for anything more.

Good bird hunts all come down to the right habitat in the right regions of the state that has a history of reproduction well suited for the hunter.

Classic Iowa bird habitat, in this case mostly quail cover that will yield a pheasant or two as well. This year the crops were beans and the pastures left fallow.

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