it would be nice to have it backa week, that would put the second weekend after Thanksgiving giving lots of people an extra day too. Like you said, I know they have talked aboutit but I wonder if the AR has pushed any other changes back.Excited to see what the weekend brings. Iwas ina pretty heavy state of frustrationat the original post, not seeing much coupled with some other stuff from the weekend had me down. I will be out in the woods thisweekend and hopefully have some news to report.
Have a great rest ofseason and thanks for the input.

This weekend should be a good one. Right now it's supposed to be COLD. They'll be moving even more with the cold and the rut. Good luck guys

I believe that next years Rifle Season will run into Thanksgiving so you guys may get your wish!

On our opening weekend (Southeast MO.) it was really nasty out with cold weather and rain and a little flurries mixed in,then we had high winds for several days also. [:@]
We didn't see very much Deer movement or any Bucks chasing after Doe's for that matter.We did see a few Bucks that were on the move but most were traveling pretty fast through the big timbers.A few guys on our Lease shot some nice Bucks but we saw veryfew Doe's and some Yearling Doe's and Button Bucks.I'm thinking this weekend will be much better because of colder weather coming in and more Hunters will be trying to drive the Deer so the action should pick up a lot more!

I'll put in my .02. I hunt in the NE portion of the state (north of Macon by 10 miles and east of Atlanta by 2-3 miles). From my stand I saw about 25-30 does on opening morning and about half as many little bucks. I took a button buck on opening day and a doe on the second day right at dusk (4:30 or so). I didn't see any shooter bucks all weekend but I have hope for next year because of all the little bucks I saw. I believe that the kill was down this year because of the AR being applied to more counties. Just give it a few years and we will have a great mature herd of deer in MO with bucks that rival Iowa and Illinois.

i agree mo-ks. but even the AR doesn't account for me seeing the lack of mature bucks even before rifle season began.
Maybe hunters last year realized that AR was gonna be implemented and decided to shoot every buck that walked out last year while they still could.