Do It Yourself Quail Hunts

Do it yourself quail hunts with Mid-America Hunting Association is on 100% wild Bobwhite Quail on working grain farm fields in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. The quail hunter will enjoy having more land to hunt each day than daylight and not mixing his dogs with other hunters. Gone will be both the angst of if that hunter will have a place to hunt and if that hunter will be on quail. Our range of coverage from western Kansas through north Missouri up to southern Iowa covers a large Bobwhite quail population region where even during a bad year in one locality there will be good quail hunting in another.

Of all the MAHA do it yourself upland bird dog hunters, they may be described within three different categories: the quail only hunter, the primary pheasant hunter and the combination quail and pheasant hunter. This profile is generated as within our three state area of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri where these are the upland birds that have sufficient reproduction capability to provide season long huntable numbers of wild birds.

The primary pheasant hunter typically has no bird dog or a retriever/flusher. He hunts largely the tall grass where walking up a pheasant limit is possible without a dog or that slows his dog keeping him close. He also hunts fewer days in the field than pointing dog hunters due to the monotony and fatigue of the tall grass habitat itself.

The self guided upland bird hunter with pointing dogs that hunts both pheasant and quail varies his hunt for as much the adventure of different habitat as well as the split action between pheasant and quail. This hunter is also likely to have more than one dog compared to the pheasant only hunter.

The do it yourself quail only hunter is different than the two previous categories by more characteristics than just the bird of choice. These characteristics are also prevalent only in those capable of a do it yourself quail hunts in that they have a passion for the bird and a love of their dogs. Two prerequisites for anyone attempting a do it yourself quail hunt.

This passion for the bird is typically discovered with the detailed discussions quail hunters have about nesting cover, winter cover, food source by season and a willingness to develop each of the habitat types given the opportunity. The love of bird dogs extends beyond that of the great companionship dogs. This love extends to being able to watch the dog in action. This is where the quail and the habitat they occupy comes into play and what MAHA has for those seeking do it yourself quail hunts.

What MAHA brings to quail hunters is the private land to hunt. The right covey holding edge habitat within the areas of our three state region that have the environmental limiting factors that encourage sustainable reproduction of coveys. We provide the hunt opportunity through our securing private land hunting access so that every MAHA hunter can hunt on his own throughout the entire season on wild Bobwhite Quail.

The habitat we lease is edge cover along a multitude and varied fields ranging from fallow weed to various grain crops. The edge follows fence lines, waterways, creek bottoms and runs for miles. We have more edge habitat than we could ever envision measuring. This allows all to hunt every day without crossing their boot prints all season long.

Within our approach to DIY hunts on wild birds we provide the resource that is the hardest to come by and that is land access. We then limit pressure on that land through hunter screening at membership application and hunter distribution during the season. And yes, we limit hunters with the first step being to screen away those that feel our costs are too high.

For those that truly want wild bird hunts without pressure and be able to hunt on their schedule at any time during the season then we have that requirement filled.