Sports
Don't put up your hunting rifle just yet. The colder days of mid-winter are a good time to hunt predators in northwest Missouri. Coyotes in particular are sought by predator callers this time of year.
Coyotes are found statewide in Missouri. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation...
Way back on September 15, Missouri's archery deer season opened. Next Wednesday the archery season will close for good signaling the end to all of Missouri’s deer seasons. At the time of this writing, over 281,000 deer had been harvested in all the various deer seasons. The muzzleloader season...
Ian Morris of Kingston is shown with the deer he shot on the opening day of gun season. Ian had already filled his bow tags with another eight point buck and two does. He hunts with his dad Nick Morris Jr. on the home place.
Due to the way the calendar works, the firearms deer season opened about as late this year as it ever will under the current format used by the Department of Conservation. It should have been a bonus for archery hunters but the start of the “extra week” saw single digit temperatures and a little...
For the past month, I have slipped off to a tree stand in the woods or spent the last few hours of daylight in a blind just off a clover field with my bow hanging close by as often as I could. I had noticed that I had been hearing white fronted geese, sometimes called speckled bellies, passing...
It’s safe to say that fall turkey hunting used to be a bigger deal in the Show-Me-State. Twenty years ago, hunters killed 15,000 wild turkeys in the fall. Turkey checking information through Oct. 20 of this year (about two thirds of the season), stood at 2,175 birds. That includes both the archery...
October's full moon rose early on Sunday the 13th. The Farmer's Almanac refers to this moon as The Hunter's Moon. The Osage called it, “The Rattling Horns Moon” since deer increase their sparring to full fledged fighting to determine dominance as October unfolds. Whatever you call it, this month's...
All the TV shows and most the hunting magazines may be preoccupied with the onset of fall and the pursuit of white tailed deer, but there are many a good day to be had in the woods pursuing a small game species that has been legal to hunt in Missouri since Memorial day weekend. There are two...
Last week I checked a couple of trail cameras that I have set up in the woods. Starting about the 7th, the first hard horns on bucks started showing up. By hard horns, I mean the velvet that had protected the growing antlers all summer had all been rubbed off by the owner of the antlers. In...
I don't remember how I acquired the coyote. I don't remember if I took in the whole carcass or just the ears as was optional. Whatever evidence I had, I took to the County Clerk in Caldwell County where I lived. I do remember the check. It was probably three or so by eight or nine inches, fairly...
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