Mid-America Hunting Association Reviews

I want to start this review by saying I'm shocked at how few reviews there are for Mid-America Hunting Association. I have a theory on this, so pay attention. First, most reviews are given when we aren't happy with a purchase or service we received. We then go online to complain. When we are happy we simply move on and rarely give feedback. I know there are many, many, many more satisfied customers than unsatisfied as it pertains to M.A.H.A. I'm certain of it. Second, and this is the important one! Maybe, just maybe, nobody wants to tell the world at large just how good this association is...I think I'm on to something here, so follow me. For the price, what you get in land quality, the service and help you receive over the phone on where to go to harvest your favorite game, and then the help with the logistics of where to stay, where to have your game processed, and the local amenities you need to be made aware of before your trip simply cannot be matched by any other association that I am aware of in this day and time. Mid-America Hunting Association is a best kept secret!!! Hence, the very few reviews. To be very honest I'm hesitant to let everyone in on this secret, but I believe more hunters like myself should know they have options. You could spend $2000-$4000 on a 5-7 day guided hunt, and maybe you have success and maybe you don't. When that week is over you go home happy or you eat "tag soup." With M.A.H.A. if you for some reason you don't harvest what you expect your hunt is not over. Your membership last the full season, so you can regroup, put another plan together, and try again. That alone is invaluable. I'll leave you with this. I've been a member for several years. Each and every year I have had the opportunity (multiple opportunities) to harvest my preferred game on more than one occasion each season. Over time, I've learned the hunting is so good, I've become very selective in what I choose to harvest. At this point, if I don't harvest what I am after it is because I have chosen to be too selective. I have good friends that make trips to the Mid-West each year from hundreds of miles away, and they have only 10-12 days to hunt. Even they get so many opportunities they have started to become very selective. Again, I'm hesitant to share this info, because I feel like it is a best kept secret. I share it because I too was once like you. I didn't know how to spend my money to get the best opportunities. I weighed many options and then I found M.A.H.A. I joined and I've never looked back. I fully intend to be a lifetime member!!! Maybe you will too....good luck!!

I've been a member for almost 20 years now, and MAHA has been a great alternative to buying, leasing, and even door knocking for hunting land myself. They provide no-frills land access to hundreds of properties for anyone willing and able to put in the time and effort to scout. New members (and even existing members hunting new areas) receive recommended starting points to help, also. A MAHA membership truly is a great way to save money for those of us who don't need guides/meals/lodges included with our hunts. Definitely worth a call.

Best hunting I have ever experienced was on properties leased by MAHA! I wish I had known about them 20 years ago!!!!!

Ok - Kansas walk-in hunting is very similar

Member since I moved here in 94’....it’s the real deal and real hunting.

A tremendous value for the amount of land and hunting and fishing opportunity associated with it. Takes a dedicated effort but isn’t that why we go into the woods in the first place?

Seemed to be great guys when I went in to sign up. The online system was pretty good, and you could reserve a 'map' with multiple properties on it. So, if things were slow on one property, you could move to another. Lots of properties to choose from, and early on they were helpful at the office when I had questions. Their setup and rules were much more straight forward and no-nonsense than the club I belonged to before. Here's what happened, why I am no longer a member, and why I recommend you look elsewhere for a bird hunting club: I reserved a map for MO pheasant and quail opening day, and the day before I was notified that one of the properties on the map had been un-reserved so a deer hunter could use it. Not a real big deal, but it was a nice piece of property I was excluded from. Strike one. A couple weeks later I reserved a map in western KS for the opener. I drove the 5 hours out a couple days early to scout, and had my places all picked out and ready to go. I was on the best looking property (out of about 6-8 on the map) early opening morning, and had worked my way a few hundred yards into the field when I noticed a truck stop near mine and a bunch of guys get out and enter the field. After a bit they began shouting and shooting and shouting some more, then they walked back out and drove off. After that I walked out myself, and went to hunt other places. I finished out the weekend, even returning to the first property Sunday morning without any problems. When I got home I had an e-mail waiting for me from MAHA saying that the first property had been un-reserved (again) in favor of a deer hunter. Nice -- I sure wasn't checking e-mails in western KS. Strike two. I called the office to discuss with Jon and really didn't like the answers, or the way I was treated. He stated there are a lot more deer hunters than bird hunters in the club (so?), and that I still had the other properties to hunt that weekend. Besides that, he said, I had the rest of the season to hunt -- which would be better anyway (huh?). The last straw was when I tried to explain the issue with the other hunters and what they'd done. He cut me off a couple times as I tried to explain things. He said it must have been non-club hunters on the adjacent WIHA. When I explained there was no adjacent WIHA and they definitely were on the MAHA property he cut me off again, and suggested I just go out again later in the season. Strike three. First -- a reservation is a reservation. Don't take a property away from somebody who has it reserved, or it's not a reservation. The hunters who came to the property were not deer hunters. I highly suspect they were favored members who called the office and got them to cancel that part of my reservation so they could have it to themselves. Again, it was the very best spot of the several I had to choose from. Second -- don't cut folks off when they're talking. I had important information to tell about a problem on a club property. And, to suggest I just do it again later in the season isn't exactly a great solution. These trips are a big deal for most -- requiring time off from work, the expense of driving, lodging and meals. Third -- don't disbelieve, question, blow off or make excuses when a member has a concern. Listen, then figure out a way to make it right. At the end of the year, the office called me to ask if I was planning to renew. I relayed the above information again, and expressed my dissatisfaction with the way I was treated. She said she'd pass it along. I never heard back, so it's pretty obvious my concerns fell on deaf ears. It's a decent setup, but reservations need to be honored. If a reservation has to be changed for a valid reason (other, than another hunter wants it), make contact early, and confirm it with the first hunter. And -- treat people right, with courtesy and respect. Even us bird hunters.

Great club, well managed with great properties. Jon told me almost 20 years ago when I first joined "all you need is a good pair of boots and binoculars to get started" - he was right and he and his staff have always been helpful. Highly reccomended !