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Administrative | All Mid-America Hunting Association facilities, most notably its leases, are available to all members through a telephone reservation system - only. Reservations are accepted when we man our office telephones with our office staff and that is Monday through Friday from 9 to 530. Typically our secretary will take the majority of reservations and Jon Nee may be present during peak periods. Reservations to scout, hunt or fish may be made up to 30 days in advance of the hunt or as late as the day of the hunt complaint with our office hours (SAB). We have on and off peak reservation rules with the more restrictive being the peak usage rules. An example of the restrictive reservations are the hunters being limited to a maximum of three (one reservation is one day's hunt) open reservations on the books at one time. As soon as one day's reservation is consumed another may be added. Waterfowl reservations to wetlands or blinds may be limited to not more than two open at a time. At this point all should agree we have been in business a long time with well tested rules. These rules are for every member's benefit and to exclude those that seek advantage over others. A reservation is to an individually numbered property for deer and turkey hunting, a numbered blind for duck hunts and to a unit of leases for upland bird hunting. The value of the reservations to the hunter is that is the means by which we know where he is so we can manage hunting pressure. The three day reservation is the normal operating procedure. The idea is not to allow any one hunter to book a lease or group of leases for an extended period of time and change his mind a day or two into the hunt, change his reservation and in effect having denied that land to those that may have wanted to hunt it. After the first trip most hunters will agree it is a small price to pay to have a limit of three reservation and the choice to change hunt locations from day to day rather than being locked into just one spot for the duration of the trip. The less restrictive reservations involves low hunter pressure by time period or location and if so the hunter during that time or location may find us more liberal with his reservations. The confidence all will have they will be able to hunt and hunt according to their plans is that part of the service they buy into with Mid-America Hunting Association is limited hunter pressure. The reservation system insures hunter separation and therefore a better hunting experience. Having a good hunt we recognize as why folks return for years to come. This is one characteristic as how we operate as a business and not a hunting club. All customers/hunters receive the same product for the same price. A second confidence the hunter will be able to have a lot of flexibility in his hunt planning is that our rules have been tried over a long period of time and refined to meet most hunter needs. Those that need more do not have realistic expectations of just what their limited membership fee is buying. Try and find another operation where upland bird hunter will have more land to hunt every day than time, deer hunters with multiple stands on multiple farm throughout the season, duck hunters having a choice of wetlands habitat types and multiple blinds and turkey hunters the chance at more than a couple of flocks. No one is ever denied a hunt and all may hunt as much as they like without any of the public lands hunter mentality of over pressured land. To test any of these ideas anyone with doubt should try and lease their own land and see first hand the challenges involved.
Upland Birds for pheasant and Bobwhite Quail Lease Eastern and Rio Grande Turkey Lease Waterfowl wetlands for ducks and crop stubble for goose hunts |
