Quigley, I'm from the northern part of MO, only about 25 miles from the Iowa line. We have some pretty impressive hunting up here, particularly turkey and deer. I'm just glad we have a ML season regardless of the time it falls though. In a perfect world, I'd like to see it open a couple weeks before the general firearms season. That would be too good to be true though. Oh well, one season is always going to mess up another season in the fall. Just too many critters to hunt I guess!