2011 Kansas Pheasant Hunting
Wild Pheasant, Self Guided on Private Land
Who We Are
Mid-America Hunting Association is a self guided private land hunter organization established in 1965. We operate in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas for upland bird hunting concentrating on wild pheasant and quail. Also available are dove and Kansas Prairie Chicken. Waterfowl hunting for both duck and goose is included.
What We Provide
Our product is private Kansas hunting land access. Our land is within the grain farming regions.
We make the entire state of Kansas available to us as to where to spend the Association hunters' money. That allows us to go anywhere in the state we need to to acquire the better hunting quality. This may be contrasted to a hunting lodge that would be limited to the driving distance around that lodge for their hunting land. In our case lodging is by local motel. A listing is available on our web site.
2011 Kansas Private Pheasant Land Hunts
Posted are the Kansas counties and acreage available for hunting.
Not all Kansas land is within good pheasant regions. Even amongst the regions where pheasants are found from year to year local weather effects do affect population densities and hunting quality. We track such things from year round presence on the land. We will get the hunter where the better Kansas hunting will be.
Kansas Hunting Is On Big Land
Our wild pheasant country is big. The picture above is a milo stubble over 200 acres that extends into a grassed in waterway, the ideal combination of habitat that coves a 320 acre or 1/2 section of farm ground.
Wheat stubble. The best wheat stubble is that with weeds or a grass of brush drainage's within it. This field does have drainage's and just as this picture shows the cover is not seen until walked on top of it.
Self Guided Hunts
Only self guided hunting permitted.
This is defined as we will get the hunter to the point of where to park his truck, step out and go hunting. From that point on the pheasant hunter makes his own hunt.
How we get the hunter to where to park his truck is by way of our online maps and telephone recommendation from one of the two Association partners. The partners are responsible for hunting quality. They too are Kansas quail and pheasant hunters that train their own dogs. Have a look at them and some of their dogs.
What the hunter must provide is his own licenses, equipment, dog power, hunting skill, meals, transportation and lodging.
Private Land Hunting
All Kansas hunting land is privately owned small and large corporation farms. The Association hunting land is not franchised, loaned out or shared with any others. We keep eyes on the land to insure we gain the hunting quality the Association hunter dollars paid for.
Advantages to Association collective buying power is the acquisition of large farming operations well into the thousands of acres. These corporate farms are commodity farms concentrating on grains alone. This may be contrasted with a small acreage farmer of under 3,000 acres that will be diversified with livestock in the wildlife areas. The end result with the large farms is an overall higher per acre protective cover hunting quality for the money spent.
Another advantage to the pheasant hunter is that should one of our regions ranging from southern Iowa through north Missouri and from east to west Kansas have a down bird year one or more other localities is likely to have a good year. For 2011 Kansas pheasant hunting will be the best pheasant hunt we have.
Wild Pheasant
Wild pheasant only. No planted, pen raised birds or feeders.
At right, an Association hunter that travels from Louisiana for one hunting trip a season giving example of some Kansas native grasslands hunting.
How To make A Hunt
If a hunter is allocated an Association slot he will gain access to an online map library covering all Association hunting lands. Land is divided into "units". A "unit of land" is nothing more than how many farms we can post to a single 8 1/2 x 11 inch of paper before we start to shrink it down to where the bifocals generation begins to have trouble reading it. There are large and small acreage hunting units. In every case of every hunting day each hunter will have more huntable pheasant habitat than day light hours to hunt. This is done by grouping small units together or allowing more than one hunting day in the larger units.
To know where to pheasant hunt based on habitat preference and bird densities between overlapping quail and pheasant is by talking to one of the two Association partners, Jon Nee or John Wenzel. They have been on every piece of the Association hunting land more than a couple of times. They will assist with an itinerary development covering each day that hunter has to hunt. There will also be a Plan A and a Plan B in case of bad weather.
Once a plan is initiated, meaning place and time, the telephone reservation is made to a live person for immediate confirmation. At that point all the hunter needs do is travel from home to that hunting spot, step out and hunt.
Multiple dogs pointing pheasants for multiple Kansas hunters over different fields gives as much reliability in the pheasant hunt quality we have as pictures can tell.
Kansas Pheasant Hunting Particulars
Kansas has a pheasant season length, favorable weather, habitat variety not available in other states.
Kansas Season
Pheasant season opens the second Saturday in November running to January 31. Kansas residents and non-residents alike have the same season days, shooting hours and bag limits. Shooting hours are from first to last light. Bag limit is 4 pheasant daily, 16 in possession.
During Season Weather
Kansas during the season through the winter weather allows for most days to be hunting days.
Wind will be the most common Kansas detrimental weather effect. With Kansas hunting being on large acreage open fields winds in excess of 20 mph will send most to wooded crop field edge habitat to quail hunt.
Winter snow storms may be brutal due to wind than ground snow accumulation. Occasional winters in regional locations will have snow fall that accumulates into drifts causing more difficulty waiting for rural roads to be plowed than degrading field hunts. Total Kansas ground snowfall accumulation is rarely an issue with the average winter seeing 17 inches. When snow does accumulate its on the ground duration is commonly measured two weeks at a time before a melt off. Rain however, can be a problem.
Rainfall even as little as a 1/4 inch is it turns Kansas rural dirt roads into impassible mud. The mud movement inhibition is due to tire tread clogging adherence characteristic and a great amount of slickness. As slick as ice. The best four wheel drive vehicles being set to all wheels spinning and no locomotion. The counter for this is the road maps available through Mid-America Hunting Association do identify gravel roads. Not all will be convenient to travel adding more distance to navigate to the hunting land, bit none the less renders rain days into hunt days.
Kansas pheasant hunting offers the most tall grass hunting that we have.
Kenneth from Arizona.
Kenneth makes two Kansas trips per season for pheasant along with the overlapping quail. He also has transitioned with his hunts from retrievers to pointers. The pictured above is his older and first retriever taken out for a short hunt just as most of us do all of our favored senior partners.
Thirty minutes, two pheasants found, flushed, shot and retrieved. One after being a runner. At 11 years old that was enough hunting for that dog for the day.
The partnership between man and dog is the final reward. The pheasants will be forgotten, the memories of a good dog remain. Those that recognize the difference between this type of Kansas hunting and a South Dakota 1/2 day hunt and lodge hunt will seek more information from us.
Protective Cover and Food Source Habitat
Kansas hunters will have more to select from in terms of pheasant habitat variety ranging from tall grass fields, brush draws and crop fields. With this kind of choice the pheasant hunter is not left to one option to find the best fit for his dog power and hunting style.
Recommendations by the MAHA partners are derived from their own bird dog on the ground Kansas pheasant hunting experience along with year round eyes in the field seeing what is going on. Hunters can trust these recommendations as the MAHA staff has the motivation of getting every hunter to renew their yearly membership knowing full well the hunter will only do so if the hunt is good.
Our self guided Kansas pheasant hunting will not disappoint the true dog loving hunter. The opportunity to hunt quail on the same trip makes for an upland bird experience that will bring most back for years to come. For those with the energy to do so we have some well managed wetlands for duck hunting.
Same dog, same day, two different covers. Each with pheasant. Above, a weak spot in a large native grass field. Below a weed patch in a cut wheat field.
