Kansas Bobwhite Quail Hunting
Kansas wild Bobwhite Quail hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association is for the self guided hunter on private land grain fields, grassed waterways, wooded drainage's and brush filled draws. Kansas offers more Bobwhite Quail habitat variety than that of Iowa or Missouri and Kansas has quail covey numbers to rival that of Missouri.
2010 Kansas Quail Hunting Acreage
Posted is the Kansas County name and acreage within that county available for hunting.
Our best Kansas quail hunting as well as most of our hunting land is within the agricultural region to include the well loved quail food of milo. Habitat is predominantly crop field edge along fence lines, waterways, wooded drainage and scrub areas.
Kansas Quail Hunt
A 7 hour day quail walk on broken up properties totaling 690 acres. The birds were willing to let us walk by. The farm had two dog habitat and lots of woods shooting. It took right to the last hour to get the final bird. The older dog was so tired at the end of the day he refused to come out of his box for the picture. Harry
We have found the need to say this next paragraph repeatedly:
Self guided Kansas quail hunts for the individual upland bird hunter that enjoys his own dogs. No professional dog trainers, breeders or handlers need apply, our Association is for the individual foot hunter of his own dogs.
Long Time Kansas Quail Hunter
A picture of my old dog on a good day.
Kansas quail season starts in early November and runs late into January. Kansas compared to Iowa quail habitat is simply a lot more edge due to more rolling terrain and greater watersheds making for less efficient agriculture. While Kansas crop fields may be larger than other localities the one mile road square sections makes vehicle access easy.
Compared to Missouri quail hunts, our Kansas quail hunt quality is typically on par with occasional years having more coveys than in Missouri. The difference between Kansas and Missouri remain that Kansas quail hunts include pheasant.
We offer one more option to the do it yourself upland bird dog hunter. With three states to select from, a three month season, limited hunter pressure, a variety of habitat, overlapping pheasant and Prairie Chickens.
Our winter weather allows good hunts through January all combine to give each hunter more places to hunt than time to hunt. The best aspect is the ability to hunt without mixing dogs up with other hunters or chasing on the heels of others that previously hunted that field that day. Within MAHA the publics land hunter mentality is absent and all will find a more tranquil approach to watching his dog hunt.
There are many intangible advantages to our method of organization that simply add up to all may hunt on their schedule, on game productive habitat at anytime during any season. The only way to beat what we offer is to lease your own five thousand acre ranch and keep everyone off it. Until then we are the best average hunter option.
In general terms northeast through north central Kansas regions offers the most abundant quail populations.
In past years the southeast Kansas region was famous for exceptional quail numbers and has been experiencing a recovery that the high power quail dog hunters are enjoying. However, this area remains afflicted with alternating good and bad springs during the critical brood and nesting period that create largely variable quail populations.
The northwest and south central Kansas regions while having acceptable covey numbers will have high pheasant populations that some quail purist find simply distracting.
The Kansas quail habitat in these various regions is different as it may be the stubby plumb and short, sparse grass that holds the coveys. Or, in other areas the soft crop edge habitat that most are accustomed to hold the better quail numbers. And, in other locals it is the brush draw cutting through a grain field that will yield more quail.
With the Association staff as the hunter's friendly point of contact and who train and hunt over their own Kansas quail dogs, all hunters are assured they will be recommended as to where to hunt for the best Kansas quail hunt experience possible.
Concerning our lease land management, we do not stand still on our leases. Every year we drop those where the quail habitat no longer supports our requirements and add land that does.
Using the links at the bottom of each page will systematically proceed through the remaining pages of this Kansas quail hunting section. Many discoveries of our self guided wild Bobwhite Quail hunting operation remain. One aspect alone has much weight in that we are a business not a hunting club. As such we seek return hunters through insuring good hunts. The good hunt means wild quail and hunts without hunter pressure.
The advantage you get with this Association is that not only do the two partners, John Wenzel and Jon Nee, both quail hunt over their own dogs they also have their own farms on which they develop quail habitat. This combination of repetitively finding coveys on MAHA private lease land while year round observing nesting, winter cover and food habitat as well as manipulating their farm quail habitat creates a calibrated eye of what type of habitat to lease in the future. Add to this our tracking of quail populations over the various regions where we lease land and we can recommend to the new to the Kansas, Iowa and Missouri hunter where to hunt for the best return.
A collection of quail hunting pictures the next several pages featuring Jerry Cordonnier a long time quail hunter who is part of the one quail in the bag per covey club.
He is able to get his dog, in this case a first season pup, on more quail each day more so than most. The value is the habitat to be seen in the back ground showing where to hunt.
And, he does get limits.
His young dog refused to sit for her picture, probably could not understand why they were not out quail hunting.
A Kansas fence line.
We go deep into quail cover in pictures and text as it is quality cover that gives us the quail hunting we have. We also seek to reduce as much as pictures will make possible where to hunt for the better dog work.
A covey point (above) of around 20 quail. The tree line with fence separates a crop field from the fallow pasture pictured. Common quail cover along a fence line differing from a wooded line along a drainage or waterway.
A fence line hunt frequently means as many or more quail will flush to the far, non-huntable, side of the fence than on a waterway or drainage within a field where the flushing quail may be more effectively pursued.
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