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The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently set turkey and deer hunting dates for the 2023-2024 seasons along with regulation changes for the 2023-2024 deer-hunting season. The regulation changes include a new firearms early antlerless portion, a new firearms CWD portion, and changes to firearms antlerless permit numbers in most counties. The hunting dates and regulation changes were approved by the Missouri Conservation Commission at its Dec. 2 open meeting in Jefferson City. "The changes to deer hunting regulations for the 2023-2024 deer season were motivated by increasing de...

It's both a good time and also a bad time to be a deer in Missouri. On the good news front, this is they time when most deer are looking for love. But, it's not all sunshine and roses for Bambi based on some numbers just released by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

MDC staff collect tissue samples from the neck of a hunter-harvested deer to have them tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD). MDC collected more than 19,400 tissue samples during opening weekend for CWD testing.

It's both a good time and also a bad time to be a deer in Missouri. On the good news front, this is they time when most deer are looking for love. But, it's not all sunshine and roses for Bambi based on some numbers just released by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Top harvest counties were Franklin, Osage and Howell