Eastern Turkey & Rio Grande Turkey hunting lease

Hunter Options

MAHA brings to all the turkey lease hunting options that exist many of the desired turkey hunting benefits and fewer of the turkey hunter and lease consequences.

While we are a collective of do it yourself turkey hunters our approach to paid hunts, in this case self guided turkey hunt opportunities, is the turkey hunter having a choice of when, where and how often to hunt with the ability to fill all available Iowa, Missouri and Kansas tags each spring and fall season while hunting multiple leases. And, do so without of the additional work of running his own lease.

We also offer not just spring season, for one price we offer Mule and Whitetail Deer; pheasant and quail; duck and goose hunts as well. All on private lease land and all on 100% natural game. And, when it comes to our spring season options, we offer two species, the Eastern and the Rio Grande.

Member Hunt Account says It Best

via email: We were hunting the south half of a 320 acre farm that is all pasture with a timbered creek running north and south across the property. The creek has a timbered ridge and bottom with a lot of clean oak and hickory timber. The creek system runs for miles in an area with a heavy turkey population, so we knew turkeys could funnel to this farm from adjoining farms at any given time of the day.

This was a late season hunt, the easy toms were history, but we knew a lot of turkeys were in the area and it was up to us to play the game smart and rely on patients.

While scouting a favorite lease we saw several toms strutting the pasture on the high side of the ridge and watched them go to roost, so we decided to set up on the high side of the ridge between the roost and strutting area.

The morning of our turkey hunt 2 toms flew down low and stayed in the timber gobbling the 1st hour and slowly moved off the property.

Knowing the birds cover a lot of ground in a day's time we decided to wait it out instead of chasing them fearing we would run off the only 2 toms we had to hunt on this lease.

We called about every 20 minutes hoping whatever was around would be able to pinpoint our location and eventually move in to check us out.

We sat from 6 am until about 11:15 and decided to move to the area the tom was gobbling in the morning, which was about 150 yards from our set-up. We had seen some in that area earlier. We snuck very quietly and slowly to the bottom of the ridge to an open green field and called one time. Immediately, we heard a gobble right in front of the area we just left. Apparently, he was coming to us at the same time we were moving to the spot we thought he might return to. Luckily, we didn't spook him when we moved, so we decoded to let him put on a show for our decoy that was sitting by it's lonely self and wait until it meandered off to move back and make an attempt to call him back.

We patiently crawled back to our set-up and waited about 20 minutes to call and made a couple loud calls hoping to make him gobble if he was still in the area. After about the 4th or 5th series of calls we heard him gobble one time, so we called 1 or 2 more times and shut down hoping to arouse his curiosity.

After about 45 minutes we looked out and spotted him at about 150 yards peeking through the brush at our decoy with other turkeys behind him we never knew were there. I was concerned those other turkeys would give us away as it was tough to watch them all. Instead of calling we decided to see what his next move would be rather than spooking him with another call. He never strutted or gobbled, but slowly inched his way closer and closer until he reached the range of 30 yards. Bang at 12:40 pm.

This lease started out cold and went nearly hotter than we could handle.

MAHA approach is to lease the right habitat within the right region of the state that provides good wild turkey hunts This is opposed to a turkey hunting guide and lodge operation restricted to reasonable driving distance from the outfitter's camp.

Classic agricultural area wooded creek bottom turkey flock. We are 200 yards away from them in a blind on a thinly treed fence line right after the sun cleared the small ridge pasture behind us. Any one that thinks they can maneuver in on these birds using run and gun or whatever turkey hunting technique that puts the hunter out in the open would make a mistake. We see each spring the members with the fewest hunting days, scout and set up a blind. Those that spring turkey hunt the longest typically attempt run and gun. We simply do not have the tree cover to hide hunter daylight movement. All may try their favored turkey hunting technique to include those that want to run and gun.

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