2022 Missouri Youth Hunt

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Congratulations to all of the youth that participated in and were successful in this year's early youth Deer season! Also congrats to those adults that took the time to take them out hunting!

 

Top harvest counties were Franklin, Osage, and Howell

 

Young hunters harvest 13,759 deer during early youth portion of firearms deer season Top harvest counties were Franklin, Osage, and Howell JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) 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. View additional harvest numbers for the 2022 early youth portion at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Z3g. “Saturday’s conditions were fairly comfortable for our young deer hunters,” said MDC’s Cervid Program Supervisor Jason Isabelle. “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.

 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]