Missouri Hunting Lease

Missouri hunting lease is within three basic hunting disciplines: whitetail deer, turkey and waterfowl. The challenge for a Missouri hunting lease is the competition inherent in a hunter friendly state having over the counter statewide tags combined by being surrounded by three large metropolitan areas strong with suburban hunters, that is, Des Moines, Iowa; Saint Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. Add the other lesser known cities of Columbia, Jefferson City within northern Missouri where the best agricultural land hunting resides and there is much hunter dollars focused within a small area. What this translates to is we all, to include Mid-America Hunting Association, will pay more per acre for northern Missouri hunting lease land than on average what is paid for in Iowa or Kansas.

The benefit of Mid-America Hunting Association comes in that we do all the work for that Missouri hunting lease leaving the hunter only to hunt.

These two aerials show well the range of cover habitat to crop land ratio to expect within the better Missouri deer and turkey localities.

A 320, or 1 mile by 1/2 mile lease. About the most wooded area to expect.

The first time Missouri hunter commonly reviews all available land by aerial photos believing the farm with the most trees means better deer and turkey hunting. The issue is not the amount of hardwood cover, it is the remoteness of any cover regardless of size from direct observation from road, farm yard and pasture that is the point to focus on.

A 1/4 section or, 160 acres at 1/2 by 1/2 mile. The apparent lack of cover is deceptive.

What this aerial lack to show is the high ground above the creek bottom hides the woody cover from the road from the south with the woody cover itself blocking observation from the north road. All fields in grain, no pasture, no farm yard and the creek is a year round wet drainage. The flat land immediately to the south of the creek line is the hot spot on this farm.