Missouri Hunts
Missouri Interests
Hunter Interests
Administrative | Missouri offers our best waterfowl and turkey hunts along with good wild quail and whitetail deer all with over the counter licenses for all seasons.
Our hunting lease land is shown on the map below listing county names and private land acreage. Our land is within the northern and western agricultural region with 45 to 55% of the land use in farming. Soybean and corn are the predominate crops. The region is heavily cut by watersheds bringing wooded drainages across crop field connecting many small wood lots. It is this combination of row crop field and cover that makes for wildlife production.
Whitetail Deer
We often though that if this state would become a competitive deer tag draw state it would have a reputation equal to Kansas, Iowa or Illinois all of which surround us. However, since Missouri deer hunting is by statewide tags and are over the counter many believe Missouri's deer are small and not worth a trip. Locals do not believe this and the non-residents that do are missing a great opportunity to expand their deer season. Missouri archery season begins September 15 running through January 15. Two deer and two turkey are permitted on the Missouri archery tag. Missouri offers the most bow huntable ground compared to Iowa and Kansas. Missouri rifle deer season is during peak rut in the middle of November. The modern gun season is before that of Iowa and Kansas allowing all to gun hunt two states each year without overlapping seasons. Missouri firearms tag is good for one buck and includes both the modern rifle and muzzleloader seasons. Missouri muzzleloader seasons fits between the Missouri modern or rifle season in middle November and the Iowa and Kansas modern gun seasons during late November and early December. Those with the time could hunt 5+ weeks worth of seasons on one trip. Missouri muzzleloader allows inline, solid pellet powder and scopes. Turkey
Anyone that knows wild turkey knows about Missouri's national reputation for not only a lot of turkeys, but big toms. Our average mature Missouri crop fed tom runs between 22 and 27 pounds. We take wild turkey self guided hunts and make it better in that land reservations are made to individual numbered private farms and when the hunter goes there he is alone. Alone to work the birds in peace.
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Not a great picture, but what it is, is a Missouri trophy whitetail deer with a rack that netted 197.
Eastern Turkey results like this picture are not an occasional occurrence.