Mo Elk Season.

[ozark trout fisher]

I still go to Ponca each year to hear that sound in the mist, to me there are three sounds that will touch me so deep in my soul i get goose bumps. A Loons call, A wolfs Howl and an Elk Bugle. Some things in nature must be experienced and that bugle is certainly one.

Well said my friend.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I still go to Ponca each year to hear that sound in the mist, to me there are three sounds that will touch me so deep in my soul i get goose bumps. A Loons call, A wolfs Howl and an Elk Bugle. Some things in nature must be experienced and that bugle is certainly one.

I can't really comment on the Loon or the wolf, but I agree with bugle and I would add the cougar scream to that.

[jdmidwest]

I can't really comment on the Loon or the wolf, but I agree with bugle and I would add the cougar scream to that.

How about a big ole bear woofing in the background?

[Quillback]

Pheasants cackling in a cornfield.

[LunkerB]

The number of 10-15 hunters is not very many and should not impact the number of elk in a negative way, they are producing more calves than that every spring. I would love to bow hunt elk in the ozarks, especially since I watched a elk hunt in Arkansas on the outdoor channel. It was a young boy around 10-12 years old with his father. They floated the buffalo river and hunted from the bank by stalking the fields in the river valley. He ended up getting a nice bull and was so excited.This could easily be accomplished in MO and will. I am hoping that the elk will disperse into other areas like the Current River and all of Mark Twain Nat Forest once the hunting begins and once there hopefully they will continue to grow like the deer herd did throughout the state. Every year that 30K will be diminished to the point of the move making money for Missouris outdoors. These Elk are wild. They were born in the wild and have wild spirits, unlike elk born in a farm barn or field. The calves will born on Peck and they truly will be wild missouri elk just the deer in Mo are. I am just excited about it and the oppurtunity to see it happen in my lifetime and maybe my kids will get a chance to do what the young by in Ark was able to do. I am leaving on Fri. Sept. 20 for Central Colorado for nine days to spend in the Raggeds with my Brother who is 22 and has never hunted elk. I am sure we will remember this time forever and we will always look back at the time we were young and did not have kids and could run around the mountains. We will be spending at least 1500$ between the two of us, and possibly more. The Outdoors is about making memories that you cannot put a price tag on but in ten years I would gladly spend and stimulate the local economy if the chance was there.

[Feathers and Fins]

I am hoping that the elk will disperse into other areas like the Current River and all of Mark Twain Nat Forest once the hunting begins and once there hopefully they will continue to grow like the deer herd did throughout the state. .

And as with the last roamer Elk they will be killed by MDC for jail breaking.

Great dream and should be the goal but it isnt see other thread on the MDC killing the elk.

[LunkerB]

Jailbreak, that's pretty Dang funny.