ShareWe’ve been in fall turkey hunting season for some time, but now, into the beginning of October, it’s starting to feel like it.
Need a gobbler for Thanksgiving? Missouri Department of Conservation put together a page with all you need to know about fall turkey hunting regulations.
Want to know more? Come to the Traveler [...]

ShareConservation makes Missouri a great place to hunt and trap. Take life by the antlers, duck call, or trap at Powder Valley’s Hunting Workshop! Visit with several of Missouri’s hunting and trapping organizations: Missouri Trappers Association, Ducks Unlimited, Big Game Hunters, and Quality Deer Management Association.
Booths will be located in the lobby for you [...]

ShareWappapello Lake – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake, Missouri Department of Conservation, and the University of Missouri, in cooperation with National Wild Turkey Federation, are sponsoring a Mobility Impaired Modern Gun Deer Hunt to be held on October 22 and 23, 2011. Applications are being accepted through September 2, [...]

ShareWe haven’t even entirely dried out from spring turkey season, but, at their meeting last week, the Missouri Conservation Commission set the dates for the 2011-2012 deer seasons. The dates will be as follows:
Archery Seasons

Archery Deer Season: Sept. 15 – Nov. 11 and Nov. 23 – Jan. 15, 2012 statewide; limit two deer [...]

ShareThe numbers are in. The rain mostly won.
A 9.3-percent dip in the 2011 spring turkey harvest confirms what Missourians already knew – it has been a stormy three weeks in the Show-Me State
Resource Scientist Jason Isabelle, the Conservation Department’s turkey specialist, announced today that hunters checked 38,328 turkeys during the regular spring turkey season [...]

ShareBy Jason Isabelle & Jeff Beringer
MDC Resource Scientists
With turkey population declines in several Southeastern and Midwestern states, including Missouri, discussions involving the impacts of coyotes on turkey populations have become increasingly common.
Many hunters are becoming worried about the impacts that these animals may be having on turkeys. Could coyotes be responsible for recent [...]

Share Mr. Styron:
I read with interest the lead article, “Hunters, coyotes compete for turkeys” in the April River Hills Traveler. Within the article author Bill Cooper states, “Ducks Unlimited had denied the problem [predators] for years,” however, I can assure you nothing could actually be farther from the truth. I thought you might [...]

ShareIn the April 1 issue of the Traveler I read the article about the declining turkey population.
I’m sure that coyotes and poor nesting seasons are partly responsible for the decline in turkeys. Also responsible are possums, coons, bobcats, etc. But I believe there is a bigger reason for the decline.
Twenty years or so ago, when [...]

ShareBy Bill Cooper
Dr. Scott Veasman, a rural veterinarian in Vienna, Mo., is a long time turkey hunter. He has enjoyed decades of good turkey hunting around the countryside near his rural home and farm. But all that has changed according to Veasman.
“I don’t know where all of our turkeys have gone,” Veasman began. “For [...]

ShareThis year’s weather and the youth turkey harvest were nearly identical to last year’s.
Fortune smiled on young hunters during Missouri’s spring youth firearms turkey season April 9 and 10, enabling them to shoot an impressive 3,898 turkeys
This was the second year in a row of warm, sunny weather for the youth season, encouraging hunters age [...]