| New Mid-America Hunting Association members have many turkey hunting expectations with this entire website is geared to thoroughly identifying the turkey hunting we offer. Turkey hunting is hard - we seek to make turkey hunting as good of a hunt as it can be tags filled or not. Our turkey hunting is accurately described as do it yourself hunts for the self guided hunter on private lease land we have leased for our exclusive fair chase use in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Breaking down the elements of that definition is the purpose of this web page. Do it yourself turkey hunting means just that. Each member must conduct his own hunt. The limitations are that while any one hunter may hunt with another, that other hunter must also be a member. Membership means either as a family member on a family membership or another individual member. No guide services or another non-member brought on to help out with the hunt. What Mid-America Hunting Association brings to do it yourself turkey hunting is the private land accessed by a telephone reservations system and identified on the current MAHA Kansas, Iowa and Missouri lease land maps as listed on the online MAHA website. The telephone reservation system insures hunter separation and not having too many consecutive hunter days on any one lease. This is a hunt quality issue where if all comply the hunt quality is enhanced and the members more likely to renew their membership for more future turkey hunting. That aspect is a good illustration at how we do not attempt rehabilitation of members who fail to make reservations to hunt. In these cases our approach is simply retribution by means of elimination from MAHA and prohibition from MAHA land access.
The description of that land as listed on the MAHA lease maps is not to be taken lightly. All who hunt MAHA leases must insure they have the most current map sheet. Spring turkey season is just a case when those maps used during that fall deer hunt may have changed prior to the spring turkey season and all members must make sure they have the current map to avoid unintentional trespass. All hunts are on wild turkeys free of manmade influences of feeders or released birds. While fair chase wild hunts have been all that we have ever provided we gain many inquires that our flocks are naturally propagated in terms that even this late in the conservationist movement some hunters have only or predominate recently released flock to hunt. Because of these questions we placed a somewhat of a commentary rather than informative discussion of what our fair chase and wild turkey hunting is and how we define it. What the Mid-America Hunting Association turkey hunter can expect is to make his own turkey hunts. Our turkey hunters range from those satisfied with one tom each spring to those that attempt or do fill all five available spring turkey tags covering Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Perhaps the most significant expectation that becomes fulfilled is one that the turkey hunter has not experienced before and that is the more leisurely approach that he may take to his turkey hunts. Within our organization the first comment from the first year member is most likely along the lines how he has come to enjoy the avoidance of the public lands hunter mentality of having to beat the other guy. Taking away that public lands mentality allows the hunter to work towards further increasing his turkey hut quality. That hunt quality changes from maximizing the number of tags filled to hunting the bigger toms. this occurs over time and is influenced by the same spring turkey hunter is most likely deer scouting his favored spots for that fall deer hunt concurrent to turkey hunting. There are more benefits to be gained. the ones listed on this page are the highlights told to us over the years by a good many turkey hunters about their experiences with MAHA. Reading some turkey hunter testimonials will bring the same conclusions.
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