Preliminary data shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 13,759 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2022 deer hunting season, Oct. 29-30.
Top counties were Franklin with 330 deer harvested, Osage with 310, and Howell with 260. Youth hunters harvested 15,608 during last year’s early youth portion.
Additional harvest numbers for the 2022 early youth portion are available here.
“Saturday’s conditions were fairly comfortable for our young deer hunters,” said Jason Isabelle, Cervid Program Supervisor. “Although the rain we received in portions of the state on Sunday was much needed given the ongoing drought, it did put a bit of a damper on the latter half of the early youth portion.”
Missouri’s archery deer and turkey season continues through Nov. 11 and resumes Nov. 23 through Jan. 15, 2023. The November portion of firearms deer season runs Nov. 12-22 followed by the late youth portion Nov. 25-27. The antlerless portion of firearms deer season runs Dec. 3-11 in open counties, followed by the alternative methods portion Dec. 24 through Jan. 3, 2023.
More information on deer hunting from MDC’s 2022 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting Regulations and Information booklet, is available here.