A little help hunting Missouri?
12-26-2007, 12:34 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
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RE: A little help hunting Missouri?
ORIGINAL: RobinAim Low
Check out the MO Dept of Conservation website for details on public hunting areas. Don't overlook the Fish and Wildlife areas either. If you have a boat, I would hunt one of the state's lakes with COE land surrounding it. Boat access willput you out of reach of walk in hunters. North of the MO River is traditionally the best for quality bucks, but they can and do come from all areas of the state, minus the bootheel. There will be nice deer on any of the bow only areas, but they are not gonna be "everywhere" as someone else said.
Check out the MO Dept of Conservation website for details on public hunting areas. Don't overlook the Fish and Wildlife areas either. If you have a boat, I would hunt one of the state's lakes with COE land surrounding it. Boat access willput you out of reach of walk in hunters. North of the MO River is traditionally the best for quality bucks, but they can and do come from all areas of the state, minus the bootheel. There will be nice deer on any of the bow only areas, but they are not gonna be "everywhere" as someone else said.
you obviously havent hunted a block of woods down there (if you have hunted there at all)
the deer densities arent as good down there, but all of the deer that are down there pour into the woods in the day time, so the woods are chock full of deer
my dad guides ducks in a tupelo/cypress swamp, and fields, and we see some monsters down there
i have hunted a lot of different properties north of the missouri, and i still like hunting south of it just as much, if not more
its just different type of racks down there, not as thick for the most part
