I've hunted near Queen City Missouri for 18 years and I was wondering if anyone else hunts Northern Missouri or Southern Iowa?

If you do..... Are you seeing far fewer deer then say.....8 to 10 years ago?

I only saw 3 deer in the past 4 days on my small 80 acres but one of those was this guy.

He came into some rattling and grunting Saturday about 3

Kimber Montana 280 AI shooting 120 Nosler BT's at about 2800

Beautiful deer, Ted. Congrats!

Nice buck you got there.

Nice buck! I like the paint job on the Montana too.

Congrats Ted,
Great buck! I hunted northern Missouri in 2014, didn't see a good shooter, 8 hunters took two bucks a 160 and a 148.

My farm is near Bucklin, MO. Yes, there are fewer deer than 8-10 years ago (due to DNR kills to control CWD), but we are seeing four times as many deer as last year, now that the antlerless season is two days instead of 10. I saw 23 deer on Sunday alone. Only one was a decent 10, but deer numbers are on the upswing.. That one is abeauty.

Those are fantastic bucks

Great buck. I hunted the northern part of the Show Me State for the first time in 6 years. Saw few deer and no shooters. Definitely different than in the early 2000s. But the locals say the numbers have rebounded quite a lot since 2 or 3 years ago.

Cool buck, congrats on a successful hunt.

Very nice.

Great looking deer. Calling one in rattling is pretty exciting.

gorgeous buck

Very nice buck, congrats.

Dandy for sure.

Nice!

I'm originally from Marceline, but I haven't hunted there in the past two years. I have a lot of family there, and they were telling me they weren't seeing too many deer the last couple of years. A lot of EHD, and the CWD thing have cut the numbers a bit.
I usually don't have any trouble finding a shootable deer, but my family has a lot of farmground to look over, and I've known a lot of those old farmers my whole life, too. I've just had too much stuff going on to make it up there for the season. My uncle had a dairy farm about five miles due south of Bucklin, you can probably see his silos once you get across US 36...........

I hunted ST. Cath. last sat.got a limit of mallards.Over by Brookfield.