About Us
The MAHA partners also enjoy deer hunting and can talk from direct experience what it is like to deer hunt our hunting lease land for Mule and Whitetail Deer.
Pictured is the Mid-America Hunting Association owner and operator. Jon Nee, with a couple of his archery and firearms deer harvests.
While many would think that since we operate a hunting organization we would be the ones bringing in the biggest trophy deer. The truth for us is the same for most. We also must work a job, in this case our job is to get our deer hunters on the big racks. When our deer hunters are satisfied then we have a good life.
We simply do not have the time available to spend a week long period at a time in the stand.
For Bruce Johnson his primary interest is duck hunting and bow deer hunting. For Jon Nee he is a small business owner and bird dog hunter as well as a fairly good duck caller and excellent turkey hunter he has limited time to actually deer hunt. His raising two teenage boys see to his limited time.
In the case of John Wenzel the last of the three Association staffers his time is spent behind bird dogs, on horseback year round, spring turkey hunting or being an alfalfa farmer. His deer hunting is limited to the September Kansas Muzzleloader season readily admitting that bow hunting is simply too hard, time consuming and the wrong time of the year. The bottom line in the case of all three there is only so much time that we can spend out deer hunting. This keeps us in touch with the many hunters in the Association that hunt with us but one week a year. We are sensitive to their time limitations and seek to ensure they spend every bit of their time deer hunting.
What should most be valued by the reviewers of this web site is that we do not identify ourselves as "deer hunting experts", "pro-hunters", guides or anything else other than we enjoy hunting as much as anyone else. We understand that our hunters will only renew their membership if they have a good deer hunt and that is what we are after - a high year to year renewal rate.
About Mid-America Hunting Association
Mid-America Hunting Association was created in 1965 by a group of four hunters and Kansas City business owners who wanted to hunt without spending time knocking on landowner's doors for permission. They began to lease land and soon had more than they were willing to manage as well as additional hunters taken on to help pay the leases. They hired Jon Nee (current owner and operator) to manage the then "club" and it continued to grow in acreage and members.
The original group of four founders through growth of their respective businesses simply wanted to hunt without the additional responsibility of being directors of the club. Three of the four in turn sold their share of the club to the one last hold out that later then sold the organization to Jon Nee in 1981.
Jon Nee then transitioned the membership from a "club" mentality into a hunter organization with a culture focused on do it yourself individual hunts and a set of ethics emphasizing the enjoyment of the day in nature versus the more social group club climate. This one aspect alone changed everything and we believe to be the very foundation of our success and the cause of our members returning each season.
From 1981 to the present Jon Nee built the organization until capping off in the late 1980's early 1990's with 170,000 acres of land. That cap reflected the amount of work that he alone could accomplish in one year. After a secession of failed employees John Wenzel entered the organization in 1995 and the Association grew to range from 225,000 to a one time high of 259,000 acres settling within the range of 220,000 to 240,000 acres and a membership in the 800's.
That cap has been in effect since 1999 and is what works well for both Jon and John in terms of how much road and land time the two can expend in a year to ensure all is as well as it can be. The Association exists to live up to its maxim of: "Spend your time hunting rather than hunting for a place to hunt!" And, that self guided hunting is on the right habitat within the right region of Iowa, Kansas and Missouri region we choose to work within.
Feel free to call us at anytime, 913-773-8110 or email your questions. When calling we may not always be available however, our secretary or answering machine is, that is if the call does not reach us in the field on our cell phones. In any case we will either talk or we will take your message and call you back.
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