About AWA

AWA Growth Goal
Within 5 years by end of the year 2015

300 member clubs established

Average 1000 members each

Average club annual sales of $1 million

Total 300,000 members
= 2.15% of the 13,975,000 adult hunters
= 0.85% of the 35,246,000 adult anglers
= 0.76% of 39,694,000 adults who hunt or fish


Clubs lease an average of 100 acres per member

Clubs average leasing 100,000 acres

30 million acres total land to be leased by AWA clubs in USA, of the 968 million acres available

= 3.10% of privately owned farm land in USA
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Camping-The way it is now:
Sharing a campground with a bunch of drunk, stoned, or rowdy strangers is not a pleasant camping experience. Your closeness in campgrounds exposes you to noises you really don't want to listen to, and neighbors you would rather not be around, who have just as much right as you do, to be there.

Camping-The way it could be with AWA:
You could instead have an opportunity to reserve your exclusive personal use of a private farm where just you and your family can spend a day or weekend camping by a forgotten farm pond, fishing by yourselves.
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Fishing-The way it is now:
You can't enjoy fishing at public areas without strangers, boats, and wave runners. There are always people wanting to move in on top of your hot spot when they see you catching fish. If you manage to catch a keeper, you're lucky because many of the keepers have already been caught and kept by those before you. Most public areas have been over fished for years, and the restocking programs take years to replace the large fish which were harvested by the thousands before you. Farm ponds are rarely available unless you know lots of farmers, and most people aren't that fortunate.

Fishing-The way it could be with AWA:
Most of our members fish for relaxation and the thrill of catching and releasing trophy fish. Membership enables you to enjoy your fishing quietly, without strangers or crowds around you, usually you will have a complete body of water all to yourself. You'll find large fish plentiful and easily caught. You won't have the tranquility of your day interrupted by gas engine powered boats or watercraft zooming by. Whether your choice is a farm pond, irrigation reservior, stream, private lake, or strip pit, you'll always be able to have a place all to yourself, which is a privilege you can't expect at public fishing areas.
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Hunting-The way it is now:
Most hunters living in urban areas have very few country connections if any. Their fathers might have been acquainted with a few farmers, and their grandfathers probably had all the land they wanted to hunt on. Farmers in the past were more receptive to letting strangers hunt on their land, just for the asking, but too many years of hunters abusing the land, damaging the improvements and equipment, taking advantage of permission privileges, litigation over liability, etc have left city dwellers without places to hunt. The alternatives: spend your days knocking on doors trying to find an agreeable landowner once in a while (who probably gives everyone else permission too), or lease your own property which is costly, can't be kept under your watchful eye, and can't possibly have all the game most hunters would want to hunt. Leasing can be very expensive for the individual, and if shared with other individuals, the amount of land each individuals has to himself is small. Public areas are frequented by uncontrolled numbers and types of strangers, and most hunters don't feel comfortable taking their spouse and kids into the public areas to encounted unknown dangers. The days are gone when there is unlimited amounts of farm land available to hunters from metropolitan areas. Many people feel unsafe entering public woods knowing there may be armed crazies or normal people who may be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. These situations are bad enough, but when firearms are added to the picture, it's not the place or time when most people would want to be there.

Hunting-The way it could be with AWA:
It's a different world. You can reserve a farm in advance, for your exclusive use, knowing you and your guests or family will be the only ones there. You'll also know what game was reported to still be there when it was last hunted. You will be assured of knowing no one else will be hunting on the property.

Can you start a hunting club without buying an AWA franchise? Yes, of course!

There have been thousands of sportsmen who have already started hunting clubs all over the nation, of every imagianable concept, and size from a few members to thousands. Unfortunately for those entrepreneurs, most never grew, but of those that did, most didn't survive. The largest club we were familiar with, grew to 25,000 members before their demise in the 1980's. Although there are several theories why such a large club collasped, our opinion is they were not able to manage their operation which covered several states, which is one of the reasons AWA has built in survivability with the responsibility and control over members and land confined to an easily managable territory by locally owned and managed clubs, strengthened by their national affiliation with AWA and other AWA clubs. We're not saying no one has survived in this business, there are survivors, but not a great number of them. As with most new businesses, 9 out of 10 new businesses that are not franchises fail, most within the first year. With such limited knowledge of this business available from experienced successes in the "sportsman club" business, this business is even more difficult for the novice than most. Why? AWA club concepts which have been proven successful, were created and formatted by the founder, owner, manager of a successful club which is a survivor now for 21 years having started in 1989 from scratch by one man with a head full of ideas developed after interviewing sportsmen who were in or had been in other clubs.
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Contact Info:
Need to contact us? Please give us a call at: (816) 224-4555 -OR- 1-800-341-3444

You may also write us at:
704 NW Mock Ave.
Blue Springs, MO 64015

If you're local we would love to see you in person.
Call for an appointment to visit our National Headquarters



Above is a picture of our National Headquarters.
We occupy 100% of this 6,000 sq. foot building.

Located one block south of I-70 on 7 Highway in Blue Springs, MO (Exit 20). Blue Springs is approx. 20 miles East of the Missouri/Kansas state line.

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The Original AWA Club:
Hunting Sports Plus, Inc. (HSP) was the original AWA club, founded in 1989 HSP boasts around 1,000 members and leases around 150-200,000 acres of private hunting, fishing and camping ground.

Click Here for the HSP website.

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