https://mdc.mo.gov/contact-engage/public-commenting-opportunities/turkey-regulation-changes
More non-resident discrimination.....take time to read the entire article. This is a feel good and nothing more. Non residents account for 8-9% of hunters and 10-13% of harvest. Those harvesting a second gobbler is biologically insignificant.
Thanks for posting. I gave my 2 cents worth in the survey.
Yep me too!
Making it a single bird for non res. would suck for me anyway! I can see it for public but if one has access why not let them shoot two, one and one or two on private?
I generally killed one and one, but the past two seasons all were on private.
With MO. season structure it is set up in favor of the resident already!
I have such a convenient way to hunt there, public or private I hope they do not limit me to one bird!
It's much easier to justify the out of state license fees and travel expenses for two birds instead of just one. MO will hurt their own pocket book with this measure.
Mo doesn't care about tag sales its just a drop in the bucket to the 1/8 cent sales tax income.
Half the experience and half the birds should be half the money.
Their own turkey hunters who hunt out of state will suffer as a result too. Because other states and hunters in other states will take notice and eventually respond with non-resident restrictions too. We've been watching this exact same thing play out for years.
Non-residents everywhere might as well be prepared for a future pricing structure of ~$300 for a single bird.
Missouri resident here. Obviously this isn't being proposed because of low turkey population, although it isn't what it used to be. Interesting stats, I hadn't seen before, but they didn't surprise me. Our one bird the first week has always made the nonresidents tend to show up the first weekend, then plan on staying until at least through the following Monday in hopes of filling both tags, exactly what the nonresidents survey shows.
Also the increase in the percentage of nonresidents is not surprising. We still have over the counter tags and a 2 bird limit. I'm not one of those hunters who have complained about nonresidents. That would certainly be hypocritical of me, even though I don't travel nearly as extensively as many do.
As for the remark that us Missouri hunters need to be careful because of retribution from other states, folks, we're late to the party. What I guess to be one of, if not the most common destination for our hunters is Kansas. Now one bird limit, limited draw. I wasn't able to hunt there this past Spring for only the second time in 30 years. Nebraska has limited numbers of tags as well. Oklahoma is one bird statewide. Mississippi has limited nonresidents to a draw for the first 2 weeks of the season, and I believe Arkansas is now one bird?
I also don't hunt all public anymore, and the area I live in is not a prime target for most people coming in from out of state anyway, but if I lived in the national forest counties closer to the border of Arkansas, I might be upset too.
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