Private Land Hunting
Private land hunting is the only hunting land option we provide.
We further limit our private land hunting to self guided hunters prohibiting any and all forms of guided hunts. There are more limitations as we do not share our private land access with anyone or other group, we do not have variable access plans or memberships. And, we carry the idea of membership parity both in terms of organizational design and personal conduct to the extent some would describe as extreme and inflexible. Our response is that life can be simple and we will keep it that way.
Perhaps the greatest value of our approach to private land hunting access is the return to the average hunter private land access of those lands owned by large farmer, investment and trust landowners that do not have doors to knock on for access and any land resource use offered by these business oriented landowners will be by pay alone.
This is the bottom line in terms of private land hunter access. Rural land is no longer dominated by small farmers of limited resources. Farming today is dominated by large acreage operations where every aspect of the land resource is for income generation be it for crop production, federal subsidies, conservation programs or hunting access. And it is the collective purchasing power of MAHA that brings the large acreage back within reach of the average hunter.
Few individuals and small friendship groups can afford to lease land from landowners of 5,000+ acres let alone tens of thousands of acres. Not only is it a financial prohibition it also includes most of these landowners think in terms of liability and organizational structure of the one wanting the lease. That last aspect has far greater impact than most hunters will want to believe. That impact is that large acreage landowners want to work with a fellow business operation that has the extent of experience and controls installed to maximize income security, reducing landowner operating procedures and minimize risk. MAHA fills those needs.
The next aspect of the average hunter access is that once this private land access is achieved our annual membership cost is less than land mortgage payments, private leases and the support equipment of bows, guns, dogs, stands etc., that hunter's willingly spend money on. Then add the flexibility factor that each hunter under our system has three states of several regions to pick and choose when to hunt throughout the entire season.
Regardless of the analysis model used it does all come down to private land access being the first roadblock to overcome. In terms of large acreage landowners unless that one hunter has a large financial capability he is not going to get access to that land for free.
This is the niche occupied by MAHA. MAHA has the structure and financial capability to bring back to the hunter land controlled by corporations.
There is still some small acreage farms available for the knock on door free access hunter. That hunter simply needs to get out there and do the work. We do caution that free private land access hunter to temper his hypocrisy about paid private land lease access. Most knock on door hunters expect free private land access consuming a resource of another and that same hunter is most likely never to give any resource he owns away to another for free.