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Home | Wetlands LocationDuck blinds in the right place on Missouri wetlands in the right location for the best duck hunting. A simple statement hard to place into action. Duck blinds, wetlands and location all make for good duck hunts. We have the wetlands & duck blinds experience dating back to 1965 and have learned our lessons well. Our motivation for good self guided waterfowl hunts is to get that hunter to return for seasons to come. We are a year long membership organization, a business not a duck hunting club, and serve to the do it yourself duck hunter. We have no interest in the hunter that must be catered to with decoy spreads, guides and paid callers. Our wetlands, duck blinds and knowledge of Missouri waterfowl areas show the care we place into our duck hunts. For those hunts we provide the blinds, the wetlands and recommendations to the first year member where to hunt. After that the rest is up to the hunter. The blinds are just part of that effort. One example and more in the gallery showing water level blinds on our wetlands. A dry land walk up blind with a shooting pool easily accessible by chest waders. This one is on a slough along a locally well known micro flyway that many late 19th century market duck hunter pictures were taken along. This is the region within Missouri that supplied Kansas City with waterfowl meals during that early period of commercial waterfowl hunting. 
The water seen in this picture is on the land side of the pool we built with a levee to capture slough flood waters through a gated pipe system. The water floods from the creek, to a shooting pool with this one blind, through the trees to partially flood crop fields on the far side. From the ground not all of the water can be seen from anyone spot. From the air the water shows over a large area of mixed duck attracting habitat. The shooting pool is to the left of the blind and out of the picture. It also extends to the rear of the photographer with the blind posted on a small peninsula of dry ground. The slough is further to the left and the flooded timber to the rear (right of picture) and further to the rear the flooded crop field. Just as not all of the water can be seen from any one location the other two blinds on this wetlands are all separated by tree stands and cannot be seen from each location. |
Our duck blinds are solid shooting platforms, heavily camouflaged and are posted or re-posted to maximize the wetlands flight pattern. They are positioned far enough from the others so as there is no doubt which spread the ducks are working. In all cases the first hunt member must scout the wetlands in daylight before ever attempting an early morning hunt. | via email: Jon, Duck limit 1. On one of the last days of deer season, while sitting my stand I noticed the ducks were really starting to come in so I decided to take a break and duck hunt. I've never really hunted out of our blinds, but was impressed with your set up. I was all by myself during the week, so I could take my time and pick out what I wanted. Great time! Ron 
Each year we have the rippy grass cut. Then we bundle it and store it in a barn to keep dry. As the season progresses and the cover gets knocked down we always have rippy grass stored to add some cover to the blinds late in the season. 
Bruce Johnson our wetlands manager installing rippy grass on blind before wetlands flooding in later September. The blinds are built and covered by MAHA staff and any members that care to volunteer. 
What we like to see in the blinds. Opening week hunt with blue sky's and warm temperatures. Local ducks well ahead of the migration. |
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