mo. archery harvest totals

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Archery deer harvest was 60,834. Archery turkey harvest was 2,523.


– Missouri's 2021-2022 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reporting a preliminary total deer harvest for the season of 293,670. Of the deer harvested, 143,049 were antlered bucks, 26,599 were button bucks, and 124,022 were does.

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Hunters checked 67,487 deer during the 2020-2021 archery deer season. This year's archery deer harvest total was 10% below last year's record harvest and 8% higher than the previous five-year average.


hunters checked 60,834 deer during the 2021-2022 archery deer season making it the third highest archery deer harvest on record

[Dave Lay]

Any break downs on crossbow kills?

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i dont know that, i know they ask every time you check a deer if it was a crossbow kill, so im sure they are keeping track of it.

[goingoldskool]

The report I saw did not have the breakdown,  but I'd sure be curious!

[Dave Lay]

Thanks for posting the numbers, I didn't hunt Mo. For the first time in several years, I bought a NR license but never made it up.....

[kennym]

Pretty good harvest,  4.21 deer taken per square mile total kill if my math is working...

.87 per sq mile by archery...

But there is a lot of square miles of cities and towns and highways.

[John3]

I would wager if not 50% crossbow killed deer in Archery season then approaching this for sure.

[JakeD]

I just saw the report yesterday.  Actually kind of surprising that they said the population is still continuing to climb. I know a lot of people that said they saw less deer than they have in a long time.  And gun season around here was pretty lackluster by usual standards.