I'm thinking of planning a couple of out of state turkey hunts for the spring of 2008.

Missouri is a state I'm thinking of visiting.

How much do your non resident licenses and tags cost? How many birds are non residents allowed per season? Which is the best county for public land turkeys?

Your wish is my command.


Non-resident $175
2 birds are allowed
Yearly Texas county and Franklin county are usually towarsd the tops. Mobowhuntr does most of his hunting is Franklin county but public land is hard to come by. Up in Northern MO the hunting is good but again public land is inda hard to find.

Your best bet is the area I hunt. There are many counties and tons of public land that holds lots of birds.

Texas, Phelps(where i do most of my hunting), osage, dent(seen lots of birds deer hunting there this fall) pretty much most of the state has good turkey hunting.

Check this out should help a little.

http://www.mdc.mo.gov/hunt/turkey/turksum/2006/20060515.htm

Fantastic, thanks for the information!

We're thinking MO and TX for the spring of '08.

We want to get as much footage as possible, while still using strictly archery equipment.

Killed a lot of birds with a bow here in MO- Try to plan your trip as early as possible- It gets increasingly difficult to put the smack down as the season wears on- two reasons-- the end of "serious" gobbling and pressure- It seems to want to get hot and buggy as well as thick in the timber as well. Good luck.

When does the season in MO open?

We've got from the 15th of April to the 15th of May to tag out here in WA.

April 16 to May....6th.....Franklin county was #2 in the state for the last 5 years running....Beaten only by Texas county that is twice as big and more populous......But they only beat us by less than 15 birds each year. Franklin county is the bomb......

While that can be true, there are exceptions...me and MOmightymite layed the smackdown on these two on the second to last day of the season.

One more thing- If you know you have some good turf lined out and you are limited on time- plan your trip for the first weekend thru till monday or tuesday- that way you are can kill a bird on Sunday- then turn around and hunt for your second on Monday. If you don't have good turf then try to get here early and focus on getting one bird down.

If we can find them toward the tail end it can be pretty wicked as well- Over the years my stats lean extremely heavy toward the earliest possible time. Un-tapped birds up north have been suicidal some years at the end of the season- but I'll take opening day with a bow any time.--Nice work on the pummeling.

The beginning of the season is always going to be the best bet, no matter where you go.

Unless you've had a lot of hunters running around calling before the season, the birds haven't been spooked or developed call shy tendencies.

We'll probably visit MO the first part of that season, TX the week after that, then come home and try the tail end of our season here, since we generally know how our birds act.