About The MAHA Partners
We are trainers and hunters of our own bird dogs. Because of this we have plenty of first hand experience with almost all of the wild upland bird land and track (forecast) both pheasant and quail populations over the entire year as well as from season to season.
It begins with surveying the land we may lease and then following up with hunting each of our regions during the season to confirm the quality of the game production as well as keeping tabs on the landowners. We will recommend to all first year upland bird hunters where to upland hunt for his bird and habitat of choice. After the first year most do it yourself hunters simply return to favored areas and all typically explore new regions as well.
Jon Nee
This is Jon Nee the Association owner with one of his dogs.
Little can add to this picture.
The dog, Buck, passed away in 1993 after a career of bird hunting that those that hunted with him still reminisce about today. Buck was one of those exceptional dogs that will not be forgotten and many more stories told about.
Jon continues to hunt with pointers.
John Wenzel
John Wenzel trains and hunts his own bird dogs, in this picture a Llewellin Setter known by some as Gentleman Jack.
John has also trained and hunted Wirehairs, Brittany's and GSPs not being breed blind recognizing it is the breeder first and the breed second.
John is who hunters will speak to when calling in to inquire of membership.
About Traveling To Bird Hunt
John also is a multi state, multi bird self guided hunter covering the cactus and snake regions of the southwest, the east slope of the Rockies and the northern grouse states as well as avidly pursuing pheasant and quail here in the central mid-west. His multiple state hunting trips reminds him of that which new to any area hunter requires. That is, where is the right land, what is the right habitat and where to stay. The only elements most do it yourself hunters require to break into a new region. Those that hunt where John recommends typically have a good time of it, but a recommendation is not the same as a guarantee.
Rocky Mountain Sharp-tail.
Most will agree wearing orange is not well suited to plains grouse. In this case this was public land with other public land behavior hunters who would not hesitate to jump in front to cut off another to a covey. |
Arizona Gambles Quail hunt.
In Arizona, hunting state and federal land, other hunters were simply non-existent due to the vastness of the acreage similar to Michigan grouse woods. The other consequences of snakes and cactus presented another set of limitations. |
Michigan's (lower) Ruff Grouse hunt on the Manistee River.
Three grouse in one day was a very good day for us in Michigan.
Bad Hunts.
Wyoming Thunder Basin National Grasslands one of the many places where local ranchers over grazing eliminated any potential Sharp-tailed Grouse populations through habitat destruction.
Both locals and the sate wildlife department recommended this place for hunting. It was a waste of time and money to travel to and hunt.
We are showing this picture as that after several days of hunting Wyoming's walk-in hunter access areas and national grasslands we did not find a single bird or a local Wyoming resident that had seen any. This experience was in contrast to the Wyoming Fish and Game publications citing three large regions containing Sharp-Tailed Grouse. This type of experience will not occur in this hunting Association, our hunters get on birds.
Read about John Wenzel's hobby of upland bird habitat development on his own farm.