Self Guided Missouri Upland Bird Hunting on Private Land
Missouri upland bird hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association is season long self guided on private land for wild pheasant and Bobwhite Quail.
While we offer the entire season no one hunts the entire season. No one has that level of energy. Our pricing and scheduling is a reflection of that. It is also a means to keep life simple. We have enough land, cap off hunter applications and manage hunter distribution to insure hunt quality as much as nature will allow us. The measure of success is our year to year returning hunters. It is returning hunters that keep the business going. It is not the day hunter we seek to work with. However, they key remains we are self guided where the hunter supplies his own dog. This class of hunter is different and fits well into this approach.
Association hunters hunt without mixing one's own dogs with others. All will have a choice of where to hunt with the Association partners offering recommendations to the point of where to park the truck, put dogs down and hunt. Lodging is by local motel. An up to date lodging listing is available on our web site.
The key to Association Missouri hunting is the private land location. That is land in grain farming. The combination of during the season grain food source edged by drainage's, fence lines, waterways. Each Association upland bird hunter will have miles of such edge with mostly easy walking and good eyes on their dogs.
Missouri Is For Wild Quail
Missouri has the upland birds of Ruffed Grouse, Woodcock, pheasant and Bobwhite Quail. Missouri also has our best waterfowl hunting for teal, duck and goose. However, it is the Bobwhite Quail that exists in sufficient numbers to make for a good hunt. The other upland birds should only be considered a bonus if encountered. Those interested in waterfowl should have a look at our Missouri Duck Hunting section.
The bulk of this Missouri hunting information will focus on Missouri quail hunting. That is about our 100% wild quail hunting. No other bird hunt in this region compares to how tough wild quail hunting is. Some say that it is the Ruffed Grouse that is the king amongst upland bird hunters. The only ones that say that are those that have not achieved success with wild Bobwhite Quail.
Average Hunters, Average Dogs, No fancy Rigs
All that any hunter would require on a hunt can be carried in one truck. Most hunt with a dog or two. Some may have more.
Missouri is for Bobwhite Quail hunting. Pheasants are a bonus and not to be counted on.
Quail hunting is by far the most difficult of all our bird hunting, upland or waterfowl. No warranty towards who will get a limit of quail.
Missouri does have our best waterfowl hunting. Non toxic shot is routinely carried by many.
Habitat, Dogs, Hunts, Hunters and Satisfaction - Quail Are Secondary
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. For this reason alone many dog runners prefer quail hunts in Missouri over all other areas. This land is especially well suited for those that have advanced their dog training and hunting to include a brace.
To have two dogs that each hunt for the hunter, point with style, honor, retrieve and are good year long in the house or truck buddies is the ultimate. It is also unreasonable to expect to have this level all through a hunter's career. It is more likely that most have that one dog at a time and we make do within the limits of our own training and hunt capability. What the Association provides is the land resource for each hunter to achieve the hunt level he desires. No one needs be a professional dog handler to hunt within this Association.
For most of us it is about the dog work. 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. Most in the Association have gray hair. A second characteristic are the pictures on the wall. More of dogs and hunts than family.
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