Kansas, Iowa and Missouri Self Guided Hunts
Self guided hunts within Mid-America Hunting Association are defined by land and controlled hunting pressure. The Association secures the private hunting land. The hunter after paying his annual fee may hunt that land through a telephone reservation.
Association Responsibilities
The Association staff is composed of two partners, a secretary and another that helps seasonally with the wetlands (About Us).
| Jon Nee | John Wenzel | Bruce Johnson | Shaun |
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Ideas were to have a self guided hunt come the partners, Jon Nee and John Wenzel. They may be contacted most days and always return calls. The sectary takes telephone reservation Monday through Friday, 9AM to 530PM. Bruce Johnson works the wetlands each spring and fall.
The telephone reservation system separates hunters from stepping on each other during their hunts. They also monitor hunter pressure. Should anyone locality receive too much attention adjustments may be made.
Pressure management begins with an over all cap on total membership. It is then further monitored by the hunter's primary and secondary hunting interest. The idea is never to have too many of any one type of hunter. The limit in each category is set by the land profile. Each piece of land in inventory has a hunting interest for why we have it. That land profile generates the membership subcategory limits. The result is land enough that all may enjoy hunts on their schedule and have a choice each day of where to hunt.
Self Guided Hunter Requirements
Self guided hunters provide all their own hunting skills. This is further defined as the Association exists as a hunts execution not a hunter trainer organization. Tips, techniques and tactics are entirely left to the hunter. This sometimes gets blurred when the hunter seeks to expand recommendations of where to hunt into something more as to which field, tree line or time of season to hunt. All that falls into the realm of the self guided hunter.
Equipment to support the hunt is entirely the responsibility of the hunter.
Scouting effort is to the hunter. Recommendations offered will be observation based. They are not guarantees. While much of this may sound unnecessary to be written past experience has shown otherwise.
Only dogs owned by the Association hunter are permitted on the ground. Dog limits of not more than 2 per hunter hunting by himself, or 3 maximum per hunting party regardless of the number of hunters in the party. More can be in the truck and rotated. No off season dog presence on the land.
Licensing and regulations to include the acquisition of and learning about are the responsibility of the hunter. No hunter is permitted the excuse that no one told him what the hunting laws may be.
A lodging listing is available year round on the web site. It is composed of known motels, campgrounds, meat lockers, tow truck and veterinary services in close proximity to the hunting land. It is updated annually by the staff keeping it more accurate than any other source. Hunters make their own lodging reservations.
Meals are the responsibility of the hunter. Most are well advised to bring a large ice chest of preferred breakfast and lunch items. In many locations finding food re-supply in easy proximity is not available.
All transportation is provided by the hunter.
Reservations are on a first come first served basis. They may be as early as 30 days before the hunt or as late as the day of the hunt, M-F, 9-530.
This Association is not a hunting club with a club's ills of social connections. It is a business where all have parity. It is also more than a business. The Association is more than an exchange of service for money. As as self guided hunter collective there are responsibilities of the hunter that are in the letter of the rules and in the spirit of the rules. The difference should come through well.
Self Guided Hunts Coordination Mechanism
A single map sheet. One of a couple hundred used to show locations of all land. All available through an Association hunters' only web site.
Once a hunter is allocated a membership he has access to an online map library of all lands available to the Association hunter. The first year hunter in coordination with the two partners will discuss where to begin the effort in terms of regional difference in habitat and what is being sought.
The maps are road maps with road names posted. The Association hunting land is highlighted on the map. All farms are numbered. No topographical maps or aerials are provided. The hunter may use the road maps to navigate on his favored aerial web site to draw down his own aerials.
The hunter then makes a telephone reservation stating the state, map sheet unit and farm number. He then hunts. This reservation is to a live person with immediate confirmation of the reservation.
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