[bukfever]

Anyone going on a hunt up that way. This will be our first trip up their.I will be there with my dad and father in law. We will be hunting MTNF most. We will be heading up the last week in April. Anyone have any pointers?

 

[Big Timber]

Be prepaired to be covered up by other hunters !!!

 

[tha bugman]

Lots of pressure!  Good luck to you!

 

[dodger]

got the hotel already booked for May 4th-8th[flapper]

 

[wallis]

What town? There are areas of MTNF all over the southern half of the state.

 

[slave601]

be ready to hear the most gobblin turkeys youll prob ever hear on public land.. this will be my 3rd year in a row hunting up there i love it up there. i usually hunt around williamsville north of poplar bluff

 

[dodger]

I just called an the license are like $190 this year for spring turkey

 

[magnoliagamecalls]

I plan on trying them again this year.

 

[WiLL B]

I have been 7 out of the last 10 years, but I think I will skip it this year because the bad hatches are catching up with them. It will still be very good public hunting though and the prettiest woods you can imagine hunting a turkey in. Good Luck! I will be back in a few years

 

[gonhuntin]

I won't be going this year. One thing about Missouri, they've got boatloads of public land. I think every county has a conservation area. So if you don't like where you are, you've got other areas. If it were me, I'd go up in the Northern 1/3 of the state. Plenty of turkeys, not nearly as many hunters.

 

[DC1]

Less pressure and more birds above I-70 . I will be there .

 

[ducksnbucks]

This will be my third year to go . We usually go the last week of the season. Last year we were camped out for 4 days and seen one person. Be prepared we were caught in a real bad storm last year and it blew a lot of trees over the road out of there.

 

[TREECLIMBER]

Good luck to you and be safe.

 

[Gobbler]

If you are going to the mtnf around Doniphan. I suggest you try the Irish Wilderness area.It gets hunted pretty good but use to be lots of Turkeys in there. Get there real early and hike way back in there close to the river. Lots of walking but use to be worth it. I use to get one way back in there every year. Now enough turkeys in my part of state that not worth taking those long road trips!!!

 

[THO]

I'm making my first trip there this year. Heard nothing but good things.

 

[huntersmky]

MO is slap full of Turkeys!  Good luck.  I was planning a trip in early May but couldn't get off work.  I'll be at the crawfish boil instead on the 1st. 

 

[deerhunt1988]

x2 on the bad weather.

Two seasons ago we had a tornado in town. Last year 70+mph straightline winds that blew trees down everywhere. One group of fellows staying at our motel got stuck until someone with a chainsaw came through.