Missouri duck season 2019

A three-tiered package of open seasons includes liberal 60 days , moderate 45 days , and restrictive 30 days options. Duck Zones and Season Dates. Options for Duck Zones and Split Seasons Duck zones are used to provide the best season dates for private and public land. Missouri has the opportunity to revise zones every five years, with possible options including the following: A statewide season with no zones or splits Four zones and no splits Three zones with potential for one split two open segments in each zone Two zones with potential for two splits three open segments in each zone.

Zone Boundaries Represent a Compromise Given the range of hunter preferences, not all hunters will be completely satisfied with season dates and zone boundaries.

Embed Code. Middle Zone: The remainder of Missouri not included in other zones. Hunters help establish seasons and zones every five years The Missouri Department of Conservation hosted 13 public workshops to gather hunter input about duck season dates and zone boundary locations. Season: Open during duck seasons September teal season, youth hunting days, and duck seasons and Feb.

Limits: 3 daily and 9 in possession, singly, or in the aggregate during the regular duck-hunting seasons including teal and youth seasons and extended falconry seasons any doves taken by falconers must be included in these limits. Waterfowl hunting zones in Missouri are divided into North, Middle, and South zones. For a map and more information, visit short. Shells possessed or used while hunting waterfowl and coots statewide, and for other species as designated by posting on public areas, must be loaded with material approved as nontoxic by the U.

Fish and Wildlife Service. For more information on migratory-bird hunting and waterfowl hunting, visit MDC online at huntfish. MDC sets migratory game bird and waterfowl hunting seasons. Search the News. Sign Up. Missouri duck season dates and goose season dates that are shown on this page are either upcoming or currently open.

Operating exclusively on private acreage, with a NEW 4 bedroom lodge, and in the heart of prime Missouri waterfowl real estate. We aim to offer you the waterfowl experience of a lifetime. Allowed hunting methods vary by season. Be sure to view season information and the General Hunting Regulations before you hunt. Hunter orange is required during the firearms deer season.

Read all the hunter-orange requirements before hunting. Use of bait — which includes grain or other feed placed or scattered so as to attract deer or turkeys — while hunting is illegal. A hunter can be in violation if they take or attempt to take a deer or turkey by the aid of bait where the hunter knows or reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited.

Doe urine and other scents, such as apple, acorn, and persimmon, may be used to attract deer while hunting, as long as the scents are not used on or with grain and other food products. Mineral blocks, including salt, are not considered bait. However, mineral blocks that contain grain or other food additives are prohibited. Mineral and salt blocks are not allowed on conservation areas. It is legal to hunt over a harvested crop field, but it is not legal to add grain or other crops, such as apples, to the field after it has been harvested.

Manipulating crops, such as mowing or knocking them down, is not considered baiting for deer and turkeys. Check your permit and hunting season for information about limits. Also check to determine if antler point restrictions apply to the area where you are hunting. Charles, St. Clair, St. Francois, Ste. Learn the best practices for harvesting deer in these counties. During the youth portions of firearms deer season, adults who accompany youth hunters do not need a deer hunting permit.

At all other times, mentors must possess a valid hunting permit for the appropriate season or be exempt. Portable tree stands may be placed or used only between September 1 and January 31 on Conservation Department areas. Unattended stands must be plainly labeled on durable material with your full name and address, or Conservation number. Tree stands must be removed from the area before February 1. For example, on MRAP areas you must remove your tree stand when you leave each day.

When hunting on an MRAP area, it is your responsibility to read and follow the rules that are posted at the area. If you kill or injure a deer, you must make a reasonable effort to retrieve and include the animal in your season limit. It is illegal to leave or abandon commonly edible portions of game. Dogs may not be used to hunt deer. However, you may use leashed dogs to track and recover mortally wounded deer, provided you:.

It is illegal to place a deer carcass or any of its parts into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, stream, pond, or lake. Deer left at commercial processing or cold storage plants must be claimed by May 1 following the season taken. Legally obtained deer heads, antlers, hides, and feet may be sold by the taker as long as the taker provides a bill of sale that shows:. Any person who finds a dead deer with antlers still attached to the skull plate may take the antlers, but must report the find to a conservation agent within 24 hours to receive authorization to possess the antlers.

No authorization is needed to possess, buy, or sell shed antlers not attached to the skull plate. Archery antlerless permits can be used during the archery deer season in open counties. Firearm antlerless permits can be used during all portions of firearms deer season. However, some areas are closed to firearms hunting during the antlerless portion. You may purchase as many antlerless permits as you want, but each county or county section has a limit on the number of antlerless permits you may fill.

Resident landowners with at least 75 acres may harvest additional antlerless deer using no-cost Resident Landowner Firearms Antlerless Deer Hunting Permits. Firearms hunting is allowed only in counties shaded blue or orange in the map below. Areas in white are closed to firearms hunting during the antlerless portion. In Missouri counties with antler restrictions, an antlered deer must have at least four points on one side to be taken.

Tines, main beams and brow tines all count as a point if they are at least 1-inch long. A buck with seven points is a legal deer in counties with antler-point restrictions. These counties require that bucks you harvest have at least four antler points on one side of their rack. This rule applies to both the archery and firearms deer hunting seasons.

It does not apply to youth portions of the firearms deer season. Does, button bucks and bucks with spikes less than 3 inches are legal to take on Antlerless or Any-Deer Permits; but for deer management, it is better to take does. Protected deer include all antlered deer defined as having at least one antler 3 inches or longer that do not have a minimum of at least four points on one side.

Special regulations apply in these counties. Hunters are reminded to follow new carcass transport regulations when traveling to CWD sampling stations. Grain, salt products, minerals and other consumable products used to attract deer are prohibited year-round within CWD Management Zone counties. The following exceptions are allowed:. Surveillance suggests that CWD is relatively rare in Missouri.

There is hope that we can minimize the long-term impacts of the disease if we slow its spread. You can help by:. To satisfy this rule, you must wear both a hunter-orange hat and a hunter-orange shirt, vest, or coat. The hunter-orange color must be plainly visible from all sides. Camouflage orange does not satisfy this rule. Allowed hunting methods vary by portion. Hunter orange is required during the firearms elk portion. Use of bait — which includes grain or other feed placed or scattered so as to attract elk — while hunting is illegal.

A hunter can be in violation if they take or attempt to take an elk by the aid of bait where the hunter knows or reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited.

Elk urine and other scents, such as apple, acorn, and persimmon, may be used to attract elk while hunting, as long as the scents are not used on or with grain and other food products. Elk hunting permits are distributed by random drawing. Only Carter, Reynolds, and Shannon counties are open to elk hunting.

The refuge portion of Peck Ranch Conservation Area is closed to elk hunting. Adults who accompany youth hunters ages do not need an elk hunting permit. At all other times during the elk hunting season, a filled or unfilled elk hunting permit is required to assist others in taking elk, which includes calling. A filled or unfilled elk hunting permit is not required to accompany an elk hunter as long as the accompanying individual does not assist in the taking of an elk.

If you kill or injure an elk, you must make a reasonable effort to retrieve and include the animal in your season limit. Dogs may not be used to hunt elk.

However, you may use leashed dogs to track and recover mortally wounded elk, provided you:. Hunters who take an elk must immediately notch the month and date of harvest to void their permit. If the elk must be left unattended prior to reporting through the Telecheck Harvest Reporting System hereafter Telecheck , the voided permit or proper label must be attached to the elk. Elk must be Telechecked by p. The elk must remain intact, field-dressed, or quartered with evidence of sex retained until it has been Telechecked.

It is illegal to place an elk carcass or any of its parts into any well, spring, brook, branch, creek, stream, pond, or lake. Elk left at commercial processing or cold storage plants must be claimed by May 1 following the season taken.

Legally obtained elk heads, antlers, hides, and feet may be sold by the taker as long as the taker provides a bill of sale that shows:.

Any person who finds a dead elk with antlers still attached to the skull plate may take the antlers, but must report the find to a conservation agent within 24 hours to receive authorization to possess the antlers.

Read general regulations about giving away, possessing, storing and selling wildlife. Mentors who are assisting youth hunters do not need a permit during the youth spring turkey season and the youth portions of firearms deer season. Hunters who harvest a turkey must void their permit immediately by notching the month and day of harvest.

As long as you stay with your harvested turkey, you don't need to attach your notched permit to the bird, but you must keep your permit on hand. If you leave your turkey, you must attach your permit to the turkey's leg. See the Telecheck page for more information on how to properly tag and check your bird.

If a shotgun can hold more than three shells, it must be plugged with a one-piece filler that cannot be removed without disassembling the gun. Hunting from a motor vehicle, including aircraft, is not allowed. Paraplegics and persons missing one or both legs are exempted from this regulation.

Motorized vehicles, including aircraft, or motor boats or sailboats may not be used to round up migratory birds. Live decoys are prohibited. All tame or captive ducks and geese must be removed 10 days prior to hunting. All tame or captive ducks and geese must be kept where migratory waterfowl cannot see them and their calls are quieted.

All hunters must make a reasonable effort to retrieve any bird killed or crippled while hunting. The bird must be in the hunter's custody until it is brought back to the hunter's lodging or a taxidermist. On the opening day of the season, no person shall possess any freshly killed migratory game birds in excess of the daily bag limit.

All hunters must tag migratory birds before giving the bird to another person for processing, storage, or for taxidermy. The tag will have the hunter's address, number and species of birds, and the date the birds were killed, and be signed by the hunter.

All birds must be tagged before the hunter gives the birds as a gift, or are transported by another person. If the birds are mailed or shipped, the box must have the tagging information. All waterfowl must have the head or one fully-feathered wing attached while the bird is in transit to the hunter's home or taxidermist. Each year, there are two youth-only waterfowl hunting days in each zone for ducks, geese and coots.

Youth hunters must be:. No permits are required for youth hunters. If the youth possesses a valid hunter-education certificate card, the accompanying adult does not need a permit or hunter-ed certification.

However, if the youth is not hunter-ed certified, the accompanying adult must be hunter-ed certified unless they were born before Jan. To pursue, take, possess, and transport ducks, coots, and geese in Missouri, except during the Conservation Order, you must possess and carry all three of the items listed below, unless exempt.