2012 Private Land Self Guided Deer Hunting in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri

The Deer Hunting We Have

Deer hunting on over 200,000 acres of private land.

We operate in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Deer hunting is over agricultural land over grain farms. A food first cover second approach.

Archery, modern gun and muzzleloader deer hunting seasons. All may hunt the season of their choice

Who We Are

We are Mid-America Hunting Association.

Since 1965 we have secured hunting lease land for Association deer hunter's exclusive use.

Our advantage is we do not operate a hunting lodge, so we do not need land within easy driving distance to that lodge. This means we make the entire state available to us for where to acquire hunting land. When we do spend money on deer land we do so where we will get the most return for Association hunters.

Our approach is simple. One annual cost for hunting any of the Association land in all three states any time during the deer season. Pre-season deer scouting encouraged. Self guided deer hunts only.

Most deer hunters travel out for the week of their choice during their choice of the season. They do so for two of our three states each year. The Iowa tag being the difficult one to acquire. Kansas and Missouri deer tags are readily available.

What We Provide

We provide the deer hunter private land access. This hunting land is for exclusive Association hunter use. We do not share our hunting land, we do not franchise out our organization, we simply concentrate on good hunts.

We offer recommendations from the two Association partners, Jon Nee and John Wenzel, of where to deer hunt. These two do it all from acquire hunting land, working with hunters, office paper work and clean the latrine. All Association hunters will have access to these two that run the entire organization.

These hunting recommendations are right to the point of where to park the truck, step out and hunt. They should be considered starting point. Most will scout these spots and surrounding land. Usually such scouting finds hunting spots preferred by the hunter better than those recommended. Eventually, all need to cut themselves off from scouting and go hunting. This repeats its self to the point by the third hunting season most have found spots they like better to the point on not hunting their first year land.

Next is a local lodging listing inclusive of motels, campgrounds, meat locker and tow truck services.

The hunter provides the rest of his hunt in terms of skill and equipment. All will scout and place out his own stands or ground blinds. Most hunters will have a handful of hunting spots they would consider first choice. Each may choose from day to day for where to hunt.

Deer Hunting Advantage Through This Association

How it works is if we allocate anyone an Association hunter slot that deer hunter gain access to an online library of hunting land maps. Each farm on each map sheet is numbered. The maps are the basis of conversation of where to get started. The hunter may then scout and hunt any of the Association land.

Most deer hunters will cover somewhere between 2,000 to 4,000 acres of land fairly quickly settling on 3 to 5 farms they would consider first choice spots. That hunter would then make a telephone reservation to a live person, for immediate confirmation, for the farms he wants to deer hunt for the days he has available. Each may select from day to day which farm to hunt changing locations or staying put to any one hunting lease.

This is a case where Association deer hunters can cover land to find their buck of choice. The opposed would be to find one spot and hope something comes by.

That same hunter may return hunting season after hunting season to the same collection of farms. On each trip he may add to his places he may want to hunt.

That same hunter may also spring turkey hunt for the same cost. Using spring season as a chance to further his deer scouting. Typically by the third year, most hunters are hunting two of the Association's three states.

Success is by means of time and location flexibility. Through the Association the deer hunter may seek out his buck of choice by hunting multiple locations. The Association deer hunter gallery shows proof of this. A contrast would be a small acreage lease where it is more of a hope that a trophy will come by.

Iowa Deer Hunting

Iowa deer hunting is in south central Iowa deer management zones 4 and 5. All land is within the Grand River Watershed.

The largest of the local Iowa towns are Bedford, Corydon, Leon, Red Oak.

Read more about the Association Iowa deer hunting land.

Kansas Deer Hunting

Kansas deer hunting covers 8 of the deer management units. All lease land is within grain farm country.

Kansas deer management units of 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 contain most of the Association's private land acreage.

Advance to the detailed Kansas deer hunting section.

Missouri Deer Hunting

Missouri deer hunting overlaps both the older and newer four point one side zone.

Missouri's private land is within the north central region covered by the Grand River Watershed, north west Missouri within the Missouri River Valley, and south west central Missouri inside of the western fringe of the Osage Watershed. All is in grain farming predominated soybean and corn.

2012 Missouri deer details inclusive of the 4 point one side zone.

Hunt Quality Not Trophy

Self guided in Mid-America Hunting Association is within the state regulations. This includes the only restrictions in terms of racked bucks is that we do not have any point restrictions within MAHA.

With the self guided hunter that is willing to pay to hunt private land he is self regulating. That is he is after his personal best working up to trophy deer ranking.

What we offer is land free from competition on more than one lease for season long hunts. Through this enjoyment of all making their own hunts and having more land resource and the entire season motivates many to hunt for years within this Association.

We do not pretend to be perfect or have a higher success rate than any other option. We do the best we can and most that hunt with their Association agree they have not found anything better. We do have a high return hunter rate. We do have hunters that quit for what they describe as bad hunts. The Association survives based on returning hunters with many having decades of years within their Association. Have a look at our worst deer land.

Enjoy The Hunt

Our approach allows every do it yourself hunter to enjoy a hunt to his own definition of the hunt. The youth hunter may harvest any racked buck or doe included on any tag as well as the trophy hunter may seek that best yet trophy rack. No one will be led by the hand being told where to hunt, for how long and when. Most will have more than one stand on any one of several farms they would like to hunt. A special feeling of satisfaction is achieved that all have hunted enough at the end of any trip.

About Doe Harvest

We further do not have any doe harvest requirement. We do our best to encourage as many hunters as possible to harvest a doe or two each season. In this regard and that of trophy versus non-trophy whitetail we conduct our hunts recognizing that any quality management program needs to begin at the state level. Anything we would attempt on non contiguous acreage less than several square miles would be futile.

Hunt For Success

Success comes from covering multiple spots to hunt the buck of choice. The opposed would be to hunt just one spot and hope something comes by.

A more detailed description of the Association's self guided deer hunts.