Hunting Land Reservations
All scouting, hunting and fishing of Mid-America Hunting Association lease lands is by reservation.
Reservations may be made up to 30 days in advance of the hunt, scouting or fishing trip or as late as the day of the hunt, Monday through Friday, 9AM to 5:30PM. This is the time when our sectary is in the office to answer the telephone. All who make reservations will receive immediate feedback on that reservation.
Hunting Land Maps
All land is available to all members through an online map library. Maps are copies of the state issued county road maps, the same as used by county utilities and sheriffs. Mid-America Hunting Association land is highlighted in black and all tracts are numbered/lettered. Acreage per map sheet is variable due to how many farms we can put onto a single sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 paper before we shrink it down to where the bi-focal generation may begin to have trouble reading it.
Reservations provide two services to the hunter. The first is to limit the number of hunters per lease or blind at one time. The second is to prevent hunters from stepping in right after someone else has hunted any particular lease.
No member will ever be denied hunting whenever they want to hunt during any regulated state or federal season. It also does not matter how many hunting days they have. Whether it is three or thirty, our hunters may hunt every day they have available to them. Fishing follows the same as for hunting. Scouting is limited on some seasonal leases.
All hunters receive the same membership hunting lease map online availability and have access to the same telephone reservation system. No seniority system, draws, lotteries or special interests, additional charges, etc., all have parity for lease land access. Reservations are on a first call first choice basis. See Pressure page to view actual hunter numbers from the last several seasons. Doing so will show the combined effect of multi hunting interest with our larger number of non-resident hunters means there is far more land for all to hunt than any one hunter could begin to cover.
Deer and turkey hunters reserve an individually numbered lease and they hunt there alone. Larger properties are subdivided into smaller sections to ensure hunter separation and to keep others from applying undue pressure to the land by simply walking through more ground than they could ever hunt.
Upland bird hunters would reserve the entire upland unit and pick and choose where they want to hunt. Units vary in acreage from 240 to 11,000 acres. Those going to a small acreage unit would receive more than one unit per day to hunt. Each unit has a gun limit. Units are used to spread hunting parties. If a county has three units of land and there is no one hunting any of them the first that calls has his selection of the three units for the days he wants to hunt. The next hunter to call in for the same county has his selection of the remaining two units and so on.
Wetlands
Duck hunters must pick a numbered blind such as numbers 1-3 below. Wade-in areas (none on this example) are also designated and reserved separately.
The difference in reservations by type of hunting discipline is all based on the value of lease land by hunting discipline. Not all lease land is equal in cost and not all hunting is equal in needs. Trust us that all will get the hunting commensurate with the membership dues that insures all want to return for years of hunts to come. the testimonial section will provide proof of that.
The bottom line is if we as a self guided hunting lease organization continue to manage land use and membership levels as we always have, two facets exist that will always keep our members renewing their membership. The first is the ability to hunt on their schedule. And the second, to hunt without competition on a do it yourself hunter basis. This is why our renewal rate is high.
Sample at 1/2 scale showing how in the central Midwest land is organized into 1x1 mile sections and then sub parts of that section and so are the roads.
