ShareJEFFERSON CITY–Hunters checked 190,089 deer during Missouri’s 11-day November firearms deer hunt, slightly surpassing last year’s figure despite a slow start on opening weekend.
Extremely windy weather, combined with reduced deer populations in some areas, dropped the opening-weekend harvest 10,000 below the 2010 figure. Hunters persevered, however, and more than made up lost ground in the [...]

ShareYou gotta love the computer geeks.
From the “Dream it, do it” IT people come these online widgets from the Missouri Department of Conservation to while away those cold evenings when the outdoors is a skating rink. You follow the online directions to animate them, and learn more than you probably ever wanted to [...]

ShareWith only the muzzleloader and late youth hunts remaining, this year’s firearms deer harvest is likely to fall short of last year’s. (Traveler reader Jerry Rapp noticed this a few weeks ago. Now MDC data concurs. — Asst. Editor Jo.)
JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters checked 15,226 deer during the antlerless portion of Missouri’s firearms deer season Nov. 24 [...]

ShareDetails on 2010-2011 Fall Deer and Turkey Season:
This year’s deer and turkey seasons are:
* Archery Deer & Turkey Season – Sept. 15-Nov. 12 and Nov. 24-Jan. 15, 2010-2011.
* Firearms Deer Season
* Urban Zone [...]

ShareDear Emery,
I would like to comment on the specific change of moving the antlerless portion around to replace the portion of the muzzle loading season. I don’t understand completely what the switch of these two portions of the deer season accomplish?
For years now the MDC has tried to gear the season toward the [...]

ShareMissouri Department of Conservation Resource Scientist Lonnie Hansen says hunters will find deer plentiful throughout most of Missouri this year. Furthermore, he said they will find more mature bucks in much of the state, thanks to a regulation that went into effect in 2004. That is when the Missouri Department of Conservation implemented the “four-point [...]

ShareMissouri deer hunters need to check out changes in hunting regulations before the season starts Nov. 14. Here’s a quick overview:
This year’s firearms deer season includes 42 days in six portions:

Urban. Oct. 9-12
Early youth, Oct. 31-Nov. 1

ShareJEFFERSON CITY-Hunters checked 1,242 deer during the Urban Portion of Missouri’s Firearms Deer Season Oct. 9 through 12.
Boone County led harvest totals with 247 deer checked, followed by St. Charles County with 160. Greene County was third with 139. The harvest consisted of 80 percent does.

ShareThe Missouri Conservation Commission has more than doubled the number of counties included in the so-called “four-point rule” for deer hunters, and added a second, late youth portion to the firearms deer season.

ShareWill the Missouri Department of Conservation just-finished four-year pilot program of antler restrictions in 29 counties be junked or expanded to more areas of the state? Will timing of the firearms seasons be changed to move the antlerless portion into October, open the November portion the weekend before Thanksgiving and move the muzzleloader portion to [...]