Share(MDC news release)
JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters shot 15,238 deer during the muzzleloader portion of Missouri’s firearms deer season, the second-largest muzzleloader harvest on record.
Top harvest counties were Oregon with 314, Franklin with 285 and Callaway with 281
This year’s muzzleloader harvest was up 18 percent from last year and fell just short of the record 15,907 deer checked [...]

ShareNext year’s youth spring turkey hunt will be earlier than usual.
JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters can start planning for next year’s turkey and deer seasons, thanks to recent actions by the Missouri Conservation Commission.
At its Dec. 15 meeting in Jefferson City, the Commission approved 2012 turkey-hunting regulations similar to 2011. The regular spring turkey season will run from [...]

ShareJEFFERSON CITY–Hunters checked 14,439 deer during Missouri’s antlerless deer season Nov. 23 through Dec. 4.
This year’s antlerless harvest is 789 fewer than last year. Top harvest counties for the 12-day antlerless season were Benton with 394 deer checked, Pike with 390 and Macon with 378. So far this year, firearms deer hunters have killed 221,490 [...]

Share(Missouri Dept. of Conservation news release)
The Kinks didn’t have white-tailed deer in mind when they wrote the lyrics to rock song “Lola,” but five antlered female deer reported to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) lend new meaning to the phrase, “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world.”
MDC Resource Scientist Emily Flinn specializes in deer biology. [...]

ShareUPDATED Nov. 28 – We’ve heard two stories from two personal friends about their firearms deer hunting in the last two weeks. There is quite a lot of overlap between the caving community and the people who hunt, fish, camp and float like the rest of Traveler readers.
In the first, Gary Hart got a spike [...]

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 [...]

ShareAccording to this story in the Houston (MO) Herald, a rare albino deer was taken Saturday between Raymondville and Licking by Bob Seeber of Union.
Conservation agents examined the deer Saturday night. The deer was known to be in the area.

ShareOne of Jo’s favorite Da Yooper’s songs: “The Second Week of Deer Camp.”

ShareSt. Louis County hunter becomes first in the state to take deer with atlatl
ST. LOUIS — On opening day of the Missouri November firearms deer season, a Show-Me –State hunter used the most ancient of weapons to bag a deer in modern day St. Louis County
Luke Boenker, 54, of Maryland Heights, became the first hunter [...]

ShareYes, I had success in the hunting woods; Gibson the Guide DID NOT kill me. Folks Gibson has to be the most patient man out there, because if I were in his shoes I would have left me standing. I am one sad situation, but I swear it is only my lack of [...]