Details
A common concern is how close blinds are to one another on any of our wetlands as a criteria for a good hunt. (Example of duck blind spacing.)
The chart below may be used for such an analysis by dividing the acres of water surface by the number of blinds. The real confidence the hunter will have a good duck hunt however comes from other sources.
The first source is that we are a business not a duck club. We survive on satisfied customers, our hunters. That satisfaction comes from a good duck hunt and the returning hunter. A significant part of that is not to have public wetlands issues of setting up late, too close, sky busting, stealing flights as well as overall hunter pressure. Having a good hunt will being the self guided duck hunter back for years and that is our business/customer approach.
The next confidence is that we are waterfowl hunters ourselves and know waterfowl, wetlands and blinds. We take pride in our work and anyone that hunts our wetlands once and is not satisfied with these elements simply knows nothing about waterfowl hunting.
There are many other intangible aspects of our organization that makes for good hunts beyond the easily illustrated water acres per blind of this chart.
| Duck Blind density by MAHA wetlands acreage | Blinds | Floodable Acres | Surrounding Acreage |
| Big Creek | 9 | 95 | 900 |
| Parson's Creek | 10 | 240 | 850 |
| Holt County | 2 | 80 | 1392 |
| South Grand River | 11 | 250 | 512 |
| Creighton Bottoms | 3 | 120 | 3020 |
| Prairie Lake | 0 | 48 | 1800 |
Total | 34 | 833 | 8474 |
Reservations
Duck blind reservations are for the entire day, made by telephone to a numbered blind as detailed on the wetlands map.
All of our enhanced wetlands are in Missouri. 
Early season small ducks and woodys make for warm easy hunts for youth hunter introduction. 
We recognize the astute duck hunter will detect details such as no open air from the blind base to the water surface. Within this website there are pictures of blinds with that open air space. In those cases the wetlands are being shown at various stages of pre season flooding or we are showing the vegetation we planted to make the blind shooting pool more duck attractive. Greenhead only days, while not every day they are frequent enough for most duck hunters. These are the type of hunters that enjoy the Association the most. Bob and Dan (pictured) are two long time members that find it too good with MAHA to even think of any of the public wetlands that Missouri is famous for. Just as the wetlands are well built so are the duck blinds. 
Everyone knows duck hunting is a hit or miss hunt, but when the sun rises and the ducks are working the area it's easy to forget the slow days. This photo was taken on a wetland that was developed by MAHA over 20 years ago that has a variety of open water and timber for the MAHA members to enjoy for a variety of Missouri duck and goose hunting. |
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