Unguided Missouri Upland Bird Hunting
Missouri upland bird hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association is season long self guided on private land for wild pheasant and Bobwhite Quail without mixing one's own dogs with others.
Missouri Upland Bird Habitat
Missouri's upland bird habitat is within the agricultural region heavily planted in corn and soybeans. Hunting the edges and waterways offers plenty of wild Bobwhite Quail with an occasional pheasant. Upland bird hunting expectations
Habitat is more of the open crop field soft edge along fence lines, wood patches and wooded creek bottoms. This habitat is the easiest of all the to be found in the Association and for this reason alone many dog runners prefer quail hunts in Missouri over all other areas.
For most of us it is about the bird dog work and when it comes to dog hunters we certainly enjoy taking good point pictures as much as finding the coveys. The quail only get us to that point.
Bird hunters distinguish themselves as being the most conservation minded of all the different groups in our Association. Quail hunters more so than any others seek the good day in the field rather than a bag limit. However, limits are possible for those that have three key elements. The first is shooting ability.
Missouri Bobwhite Quail Hunting
Missouri Bobwhite Quail hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association gives the hunter more farms to hunt each day than daylight hours to cover giving that extra motivation we all occasionally need of seeing new ground to keep on quail hunting. Missouri Bobwhite Quail Hunting details
Most of the quail will present shots other than with blue sky background. Bobwhites dodging around trees and over fence lines will allow many hunters to help our economy through firing shells at phantoms.
The second element is dog power. We all have been with hunters at sometime in our past that had a dog or two that to save their life to find a covey they could not. While other dogs always seem to be the first to point. It all comes down between dogs that know target habitat and those that just run. Those with dogs of even the least skill will still have a good day of it.
The final element that makes for a successful quail hunt is the willingness to walk. Those that do will invariably find more coveys and singles. One aspect that separates the do it yourself bird hunter of his own dogs to that of those that hunt at a hunting club.
Missouri Pheasant Hunting
Missouri is weak on pheasants with their distributions largely along the Iowa state line. With two pheasant per day limit compared to Kansas' 4 along with Kansas having farm more pheasants the mixed bag hunter is well advised to travel a bit further for a pheasant hunt.
Missouri pheasant hunting
Kansas pheasant hunting
Iowa pheasant hunting
We, association staff, have spent the entire daylight period of a single day walking properties of less than 700 acres of Missouri farm land and found a limit while others we meet have found less. A key discriminator between these two are those that wear out a pair of store shelf boots each season and those that have the same pair of boots for several years.
For all those that want unguided upland bird hunting for a good Bobwhite Quail and acceptable pheasant population they will never be disappointed by Missouri's upland bird habitat quality, ability to hunt on their schedule and the opportunity to be on game every day.
2010 Missouri hunting land acreage posted by county name and acreage available for upland bird hunting is posted below.
No till milo on top of wheat. A winged quail in the center of the picture.
