hunting in Missouri

ah929rr

ah929rr

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Wish me luck I am going to Missouri next week to visit some friends. I am going to try and bloody a couple of my new rifles on some coyotes. I am going about 1 hour north of Springfield and my friends own about 1000 acres and have permission for alot more so it should be fun. None of the land they own has ever been called for coyotes so hopefully the coyotes will come to the call.

I am going to take my Carey custom 204 and also my RRA coyote and my old faithful Tikka T3 Varmint 22-250. I am going to be calling with my Scorpion so hopefully I can have some fun and call in a few and let the lead fly!
 
Hey, good luck to you in Missouri. I live in Garden City MO and you should find plenty of yotes here in the show me state. This morning I noticed the deer moving good so I think that the dogs will be ready to die.
 
Just curious, I haven't looked at it, what is the cost of a non-resident tag for hunting coyotes now in Missouri? All our fees are going up slightly for residents next year and a fair jump for non-residents.
 
DrDzNuts you may know me or atleast some of my family. I live just about twenty minutes from you in Adrian. I too have noticed deer moving alot here lately so im going out in the morning myself to try and round up a few dogs.
 
I ended up buying

Nonresident Furbearer Hunting and Trapping Permit*
For furbearers. $120.00

It wasn't cheap but it should be fun + If I have luck I might try and get come back down around the holidays.
 
Wow, I didn't realize the cost was that much! I was checked by a Conservation Agent today and he mentioned that he just caught some guys from out of state that were bowhunting deer on resident tags. They used their in-laws addresses to get their tags as residents. Of course the out of state vehicle plates and driver’s licenses are a dead give away. All of Missouri's fees are going up in 09'. Especially the non-resident fees to come more in line with surrounding states fees. Good luck on your hunt in Missouri, I called a coyote today and gave him a face full of HD-BB's at about 30 yards.
 
I just wish Missouri would treat coyotes a little more like Kansas does. $120 is pretty steep to shoot coyotes. Kansas excludes coyotes from the furharvester stamp so all you need to hunt them is a hunting liscense. By the way, that's a pretty cheap excuse for raising fees,"Everyone else is". Not that Kansas has any room to talk. Their non res. fees are outrageous!
 
Well... Missouri hasn't raised license fees here for quite a few years. Even when they did raise their fees, they were and still will be, below all the surrounding states fees. In fact, for many years some of the surrounding states didn't even allow non-resident big game (deer) hunters. Missouri always has and at a too low price IMHO. I'll support raising the non-resident fees to equal levels with the surrounding states. If it is good enough for them, it is good enough for us too. We all have choices to make, if I don't like the high non-resident fee in Kansas, then I'll keep my rear here in Missouri or hunt elsewhere out of state. There it is... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Here are the choices I had for the permit but I didn't want to take the chance and not have the right permit.

I am not sure if the daily permit would have let me go for coyotes so I ended up just buying the Hunting and Trapping Permit.

Daily Small Game Hunting Permit*
For frogs, birds (except turkey), mammals (except deer and furbearers), and to chase furbearers for training dogs during the closed season. A permit may be purchased for multiple days. A federal duck stamp also is required by federal regulations for hunting waterfowl and a Migratory Bird Hunting Permit is required by state regulations for hunting waterfowl, doves, snipe, woodcock and rails. $11.00
per day

Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit*
For frogs, birds (except turkey), mammals (except deer and furbearers), and to chase furbearers for training dogs during the closed season. A federal duck stamp also is required by federal regulations for hunting waterfowl and a Migratory Bird Hunting Permit is required by state regulations for hunting waterfowl, doves, snipe, woodcock and rails. $75.00

Nonresident Furbearer Hunting and Trapping Permit*
For furbearers. Date change! Valid until June 30, 2009 $120.00

Kind of expensive but it should be fun.
 
I'm pretty sure coyotes aren't considered "furbearers." Bobcats, red and gray fox, along with otter, beaver, ect. are furbearers. I'm pretty sure you could have bought either the Daily Small Game Hunting Permit for the amount of days necessary for your hunt, or, if you plan on hunting throughout the season the Nonresident Small Game Hunting Permit would have covered you for the entire season as long as you didn't harvest a fox or bobcat if one of them showed up on a stand. As is, you have the right permit to take a bobcat or fox if one of them does come in. Good luck, let us know how your calling sessions go. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
That's what I was refering to in my previous post. Missouri considers the coyote as a furbearer. It's not real clear in the Missouri regs. I always thought that all I would need is a small game permit too but I don't think that's the case. Last year, A farmer I work with asked me to come down and shoot the coyotes around his farm while he was calving. I asked a buddy of mine to accompany me and he didn't know what liscense to buy. He read the regs and they weren't clear enough. We then looked it up online and this muddied up the water even more. My buddy wasn't convinced we just needed small game permits so he started calling Conservation offices. Even they were a little confused about it. His final call was to Jefferson City I think, talking to the head of conservation or head conservation officer or something like that. He told us we needed the "Nonresident Furbearer Hunting and Trapping Permit". because Missouri classifies coyotes as furbearers....$120...I wish I was wrong, but I don't think I am. Either way, original poster, your covered.

2007 Missouri Hunting and Trapping Regulations
Definitions:
Furbearing Animals, Furbearers: Badger, beaver, black bear, bobcat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, mink, mountain lion, muckrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, river otter, spotted skunk, striped skunk and long-tailed weasel. Note: Open seasons exist for all furbearers except black bear, mountain lion, spotted skunk and long-tailed weasel.
 
duckdog.

Those animals are all considered furbearers. However, the only license you need to hunt furbearers in MO is the nonresident small game permit. Just need the trappers if you are actually going to trap.

Randy
 
That's what everybody thinks but it's wrong. I don't know of any other way to convice you. I wish you were right and I was wrong. That's why the tag is called a "Nonresident Furbearer Hunting and Trapping Permit." Here's the real kicker. There's no such thing as a resident furbearer hunting and trapping permit. If you're a resident, you just have to have the small game hunting permit, but if you're a non-resident, you gotta pay the $120 to be legal. Kind of a crock ain't it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
Coyotes may be classified as a furbearer for a trapper, but our coyote hunting season runs nearly year round with a short break right at spring turkey season. We all know the fur isn't prime in July, so I can't see them being classified as a furbearer. In fact, I just talked to a Conservation Agent yesterday and he said he didn’t even skin “the stinking things.” I doubt he would have said that if coyotes were classified as a furbearer. He did say he would gladly skin a bobcat or fox, but not a coyote and made the remark above.

It can be hard to figure out some regulations. I had a question about wearing hunter orange during the muzzleloader season and had a heck of a time getting a straight answer about that. Obviously if you are hunting deer during that season you need orange on as it is a requirement. I asked the old CA that was here and he couldn’t tell me exactly so I called the Region HQ and they couldn’t tell me exactly. So I then called the Main Office in Jefferson City and guess what… they couldn’t tell me exactly either. I had a hunt planned for the next day and the person on the phone stumbled around and see-sawed back and forth until finally I told them, “Hey, I’m going coyote hunting tomorrow. As I read the regulation orange isn’t required. If you decide differently, I’ll be at XX place at daylight. You can send the CA out to write me then.” I then called the local CA in that county and explained the deal and he told me, “Don’t worry about it. I know who you are, you’re a good guy. Good luck!” End of story so far.
 
Hey guys its still [beeep] of alot cheaper than arkansass out of state lic..
U have to buy the main lic. for 350.00 and then buy the furbearer lic that is another 125.00 for a total of 457.00 just to kill a [beeep] coyote ,
and they wounder why so many people poach
 


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