Archery Deer Hunting
Mark, a local Association archery deer hunter for 11 years was forced to look for another archery spot, since his traditional farm had sold. He said he's going to return to his new spot next year.
Every so often we receive a telephone call from an applicant that seizes on information such as the caption at the top of this picture focusing on the negatives that a hunter may not always be able to hunt the same spot from year to year. This is true and it reflects reality rather than the ideal some folks unreasonably expect. All must recognize land use will change over the years, landowners die, some retire and sell land and so on. The same for us as it is for any that secure a private land deer lease. And, we are better. Each scouting trip, deer hunt or spring turkey season each deer hunter should add one more prospective deer spot to his personal inventory of where he may want to hunt. Most Association deer hunters have knowledge of more spots they would like to hunt than time in a season to hunt.
Archery deer hunting with Mid-America Hunting Association is to have multiple stand locations on multiple farms and choose from day to day based on the season, weather and wind of where to hunt. We encourage preseason scouting. Deer hunting is throughout the entire season for both Mule and Whitetail Deer covering our three state region of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. All hunts are on 100% private land we lease for our exclusive Association hunter use.
Even though we area self guided deer hunter organization we do assist with ideas of where to get started. These recommendation will be based on the two MAHA partners, Jon Nee and John Wenzel's year round on the ground observations, conversations with landowners and to what may seem unlikely from bird hunters. Our purpose is to take away as much mystery of where to hunt by region of each state and right down to the spot of where to park the truck, step out and hunt.
Most archery hunters will scout somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 acres finding three to five farms they would consider first choice, must hunt location. With that much land coverage having options from day to day where to hunt to fit any portion of the rut and to come back throughout the season as often as wanted often brings with it the opportunity at eyes-on a trophy deer as well as achieving failure. Whatever the outcome of the hunt the self guided Association deer hunter has achieved that level of success on his own without the anxiety of hoping to have a spot to hunt. We add tot hat tranquility as we have enough land and control total hunter pressure to insure that one hunter will not see another on the farm that he is hunting and better. We have enough land that no one needs fall in on the heels of a previous hunter, none should be stepping over the boot prints of another and with sun up comes un-pressured field and woods without other stands on the horizon.
Dennis, dedicated Association whitetail hunter on late season deer hunting trip. Dennis has been in the club for 24 years and has a whitetail collection that will rival the best.
All land use is by a telephone reservation to a numbered farm with the intent of hunter separation. The average acreage per deer hunter per day is 160 acres, a 1/2 x 1/2 mile square quarter section. the largest pieces of land to be expected is a full section at 640 acres and the smallest we will break down any one farm is into 80 acres numbered/lettered subparts. Any farm broken into 80 acres per hunter is a good farm in terms of cover and locality and the intent is not a hunter on each 80 acres each day. the idea is hunter pressure management that when going to one of these better spots the deer hunter commits to a specific location and does not put pressure on the surrounding land by simply walking through it. These type of hunter pressure controls are some of what separates Mid-America Hunting Association from other private land hunts. Not only do we prevent over pressuring any one deer hunting lease we also prohibit off road motorized vehicles ATV and otherwise, no camping on our leases, no guests, no drive, party or any type of gang hunts. We want our deer lease land as un-pressured as we can make possible before that deer hunter's arrival for his hunt.
The Association partners bow hunt themselves and know full well how challenging it is to stay in stand and put a hunt together just to get eyes-on a trophy deer let along draw back on one. To that end we operate as a business and not a deer hunting club meaning we know what quality of hunt it will take to insure most, never all, self guided deer hunters to return for years of hunts to come. One key point is just that we offer quality deer hunting meaning, private land, pre-season scouting, leasing land in that part of the state that gives the best return for the hunter and hunter pressure management. never will we make any claim to be a trophy deer organization as most should agree that 90% of the hunters on any season will not harvest a trophy deer. To think otherwise would be foolish even in the great deer hunting states of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
Deer hunters should continue through this web site covering the scouting, habitat and hunters testimonial sections as well as using the "Index" link at the bottom of every page to cover all the devil in the details administrative topics then call us from 9 to 9 on most days with any questions or concerns. If after covering the rules and agreeing we are a good fit for each other all that would be left is for the deer hunter to mark his calendar making full use of scouting and hunting as much as he has time to do.
Mid-Amrica Hunting Association has been around a long time, long enough the original four hunters that started the Association in 1965 are no longer with us. The current Association partners have a long trcak recod as well. The short biograhy is that the owner/operator, Jon Nee, bought the Associatin in 1981 after having been an employee of the Association. The partner, John Wenzel, started in 1995 after retiring from the US Army. These hunter/partners along with a full time offoce secretary are the entire staff and directly responsible for the hunt experince of each Association hunter. As they have been ariound as long as they have been and do operate hands on throughout the entire 
year many good working relationships have been develped between the Associatin staff and hunters. the picture below are just a sampling of many hunetrs through the years that have had success. many more may be fond in the testimonial section.
Bow hunting at 15 years old with his first 140class P&Y buck.
Terry from the Carolinas with his best to date central mid-west whitetail.
Buck H., from Arkansas and a hard ridge runner deer hunter simply enjoys hunting in different places rather than spending every season in the same woodlot.
Rick a local member with several deer 
hunting options shows his best in a lifetime whitetail he ever harvested and it came from an Association lease.
Deer Hunter/Member Assessment
Finally getting around to writing you and share my impressions of MAHA. I joined the club in April [last year] after I came across your organization on the internet. I had made two hunts in the area the club has ground in MO and IA. I hunted with a group of individuals who bought land and a single house near [location deleted], IA and formed a small scale club like MAHA. They had access to some pretty good land but I felt like I could only access it through a friend that was part of the group and I wanted more control of my own destiny. I was a bit skeptical at first but after looking over much of your website I made the call to join and am very happy that I did.
As a person in business myself I want to compliment you on the way you represent the organization. I have found everything you represent on the website and in the personal interview to be true. The people in the Midwest are great. We stayed at the Lakeview Motor Lodge in Trenton, MO last year and after 10 days there felt like we'd know some of the people for years. Your website scouting sections and advice to the eastern big woods hunters was spot on. I don’t know how many times I've read some of those articles but I never get tired of them. I’m not a true trophy hunter yet but I absolutely agree with your observation that when good hunters get on ground with trophy potential, they'll push themselves to target bigger bucks each year. I also like the way you represent what the club is and is not. It was a lot of work to scout the ground from 1,000 miles away but I have come to really enjoy this part of the hunt during the off season. I have learned the tools that are available and have been pleased with the assessments of the ground I have been able to make with a combination of aerials and topographic maps. People look at me kind of funny when I pull up my maps on a plane or at lunch during work but this is the next best thing to being there hunting. I plan to be a part of the club for many years and like the fact that you plan to be around a long time as well. I think it’s really important to remind people that you are training the future owners of the business and feel good every time you share info on the next generation of owners. I know you don't make referrals based on casual interest and I think that’s the right approach but if you need the perspective of a fairly new member from a heavily hunted eastern state like Pennsylvania I'm more than willing to share my positive experience. Keep my email address on file or leave a message at my office number below and I'd be more than happy to give an honest account of my experience.
Bob