Published by admin on Mon, 11/09/2020 - 7:22am
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 15,591 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2020 deer hunting season, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
Top counties were Franklin with youth hunters harvesting 336 deer, Howell with 324, and Osage with 320. The count was as of Monday.
In Audrain county, hunters took 145 deer. Ninety of these were antlered bucks, 10 button bucks and 45 does.
Last year, youth hunters harvested 18,289 deer during the early youth portion.