With the November portion of firearms deer season concluded, preliminary harvest numbers are in — and they are below the five-year average. According to a Missouri Department of Conservation news ...

ST. LOUIS — This year’s opening weekend of firearms deer season saw a dip in harvests, with hunters bagging 68,312 deer—a stark contrast to last year’s bumper crop of 90,253. That’s a 24 percent drop.

Hunters harvested about 20,000 fewer deer this year during opening weekend of the November portion of firearms deer season compared to last year, according to preliminary data from the Missouri ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) - Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 159,120 deer during the November ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS — This year’s opening weekend of ...

Extra hunting seasons are designed to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer, but a Missouri county was added to the list where it has been confirmed. Deer in 40 Missouri counties ...

MISSOURI, USA — The opening weekend of Missouri's 2024 deer hunting season is officially in the books, and deer harvest totals saw a huge drop compared to last year. The Missouri Department of ...

There's a reason you may not have seen any deer while in your deer stand this year, and it's not because you fell asleep. The season's harvest was down 15 percent from last year and down 8 percent ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...