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Offline Shawnee Gene

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Small Game in SEMO
« on: July 05, 2008, 09:59:30 AM »
How is the small game hunting in SEMO this year?  Any info would be welcome.  Thank You for your replies.
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 08:58:04 AM »
I can't help you in Southeast MO thought I used to hunt Apple Creek near Cape

But St. Louis has been a weird season so far. In past years, I'd find a few squirrels every morning. This year about half the time I don't see any squirrels at all.
But there has been a couple times I found a mess of them in the mullberries in early june. Blackberries are beginning to ripen and I found a bunch of grey squirrels fighting around them last weekend.

Other than those two occasions...not a lot going on. With the mild and wet spring I've seen a lot of walnuts and hickory nuts on the trees so here in another month or so ought to be pretty good. In the city they are trying green walnuts already.
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 10:13:28 PM »
Thak You. ;D
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2008, 05:03:43 PM »
Since squirrel season , coyote, groundhog and crow season are the only things open ...not alot of real game stuff to hunt.........by Nov 15th ......we will have a better idea........I know I am seeing alot more quail this yr......so I am hoping.......I do miss the sound of a flushing covey
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2008, 01:13:19 PM »
Doesn't most of the small game in the swamp east consist of crawdads and mud puppies? ;) ;)  The squirrels are out up here in the hills but the ticks are almost as big as they are so I am waiting until later in the year to chase them 9the squirrels that is, the ticks chase me).  Actually I am having a hard time keeping them (the squirrels) out of my apple trees and sweet corn.  I have an old deer stand propped up in a tree next to my garden and have been using it to shoot the  groundhogs that are mowing off my green beans.  There is never a dull moment in the Ozarks. :D :D

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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2008, 09:59:59 AM »
Good point Ranger J.....and yes, there are not alot of critters that are not mud bugs.....or crawdads......I see them every weekend when I am scouting cotton....
only thing missing in SwampEast Missouri ........is tons of cyprus woods swamps.........which USED to be here........now just a few patches here and there........a shame......bet there used to be enough wood ducks here , to blacken the sky .......now it is pretty much a flat , lifeless delta.......plenty of corn , cotton, and beans....but very very few quail, pheasant, or deer...........oh yes , we have lots of coyotes, skunks.....oppossums, and armadillos and turtles........but the armadillos are stupid, the skunks stink, the oppossums are just God awful ugly, and the coyotes are too dad gum smart to out-coyote,,,,MOST of the time............just wish we had a nice 1,300,000 or 1,800,000 acres of woods scattered out there in the bootheel.     it would be a true "habitat".....with more game than you coudl ever imagine...
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2008, 04:27:20 PM »
I can just close my eyes and imagine what the great swamp must have looked like before they drained it.  It must have been a waterfowl paradise.  I drive down through there several times a year and it reminds me of what much of Illinois where I used to live has become.  What used to be small farms separated by wooded fence rows has disappeared and now an animal would have to pack its own lunch to get across what is left.  Not like what it was when I was a kid.  Here I go again talking like an old f....  when just today I had my doctor told me I was not really old.  Funny I was in to see why everything hurt. :D

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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 05:44:24 AM »
I always wondered if we could talk a guy like T Boone Pickens into buying about 1 million acres..adn jjst planting bald cyprus in it....just to p--- off the farmers...of course, why a man his age , woudl plant harwoods, woudl mystify everyone......since even his grandchildren woudl not even live to see them at their peak of maturity .....but I'd give anything, to see what it was like 250 yrs ago .........300 maybe......
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 04:29:02 PM »
I went fishing a good number of years ago in some ox-bows down in KY and remember seeing the stumps of cut off cypress and they were monsters.  The only thing I have seen that might match them is the stumps of sycamore trees a good five foot across down in the Wabash valley.  The sad part was that they were all stumps too.

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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2008, 03:41:34 PM »
There are a few places still......like BIg Oak State Park......east of East Prarie...that has some true old growth Oak trees......some are even marked with placards as to their eastimated age, etc, etc........there's a boardwalk that goes about a mile into the woods there....and if you get there early , or stay late...it gets so quiet....except for the critters , birds..etc......and you start to realize how enormous those trees are.......and how dark those woods must have been ..now , imagine fall..moving into winter.........all that timber flooded.......and the absoulute roar and whistle of a million mallard, pintail, and wood duck , widgeon, and redhead wings.....................it must have been something to see.............
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2008, 04:52:08 AM »
I do some fishing and a little hunting at Wolf Bayou CA in Pemiscot county. Lots of cypress, pecans, persimmons and pawpaws. Even more skeeters though. Usually bag a squirrel or two, my stepdad even bagged a black squirrel there once. They were supposed to have released some turkey out there a couple of years ago. As I stated before though, the skeeters are horrible out there though.
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2008, 05:05:45 AM »
 Squirrels are cutting hickory nuts and acorns right now. I would consider mingo or coon island first. They are too scattered up in the hills right now. Also try Big cane. Bring bug spray and a head net. Total camo is needed they are wise and have lots of pressure but lots of them
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2008, 03:41:43 AM »
I've been seeing a lot of squirrles lately.  Rabbits are finally starting to make a comeback.  Dove season is slow this year.  (Odd corn season due to rains early)  Coyotes are about the same as last year.  Bobcats are pretty thick, and even been  scattered cougar and black bear sightings this year... Crazyness...
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2008, 05:01:50 AM »
Where are you Singleshot sam..??    Been looking for a place to go where the Bobcats are thick..??  First cold weekend...or when the leaves begn to turn, I start having weekends to call my own......the smell of cotton defoliant is already in the air......so my days in the cotton field , have an end in sight....bring on teh Bob's.......
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2008, 06:13:04 PM »
Thanks for all of the info guys.  I hope we can keep this thread going!
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2008, 05:28:24 PM »
It isn't exactly small game but it is a small deer. I now have fresh deer meat anyway. Harvested in New Madrid Co. and only my second bow kill.


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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2008, 06:30:00 AM »
Were you hunting Donaldson Point Troy?  Man... I scouted a LOT of cotton down in NM Co. back in my day lol...

As to answer Pony's question, I'm in stoddard co.  The best way to describe my location is about 1/2 way between Cape Girardeau and Dexter.  Bell City is the closest town "village, hamlet" to me. 
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Re: Small Game in SEMO
« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2008, 04:33:54 PM »
Yeah I was in the Donaldson Point area. Little guy ran straight up to me at the base of a small oak tree. Came at me straight out of the fog and just about ran me over. He then turned back and ran about 20 yards away from me and stopped broadside to me. I then turned is lungs to soup (love them muzzy broadheads) and had to track him about 75 yards through the thickest patch of poison ivy I have ever seen.
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