Outdoors

After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter! I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal season, about 1964. I was in high school and Dad and I floated the river in September in one of our wooden

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks recently received new chairs for visitors with mobility challenges. Using the chairs, visitors can now navigate both land and water. Produced by the Action Trackchair company, track chairs are electric all-terrain wheelchairs that offer guests with mobility challenges the opportunity to partake in outdoor activities.

Looking for fun activity that may be near home? Check out these activities offered next week at state parks and historic sites in Southwest Missouri. Sideview of head of young bison found in Prairie State ParkSaturday, Sept. 9: Guided Bison Saunter at Prairie State Park Join park team members on a leisurely walk in the

This past weekend, a young lady reporting on deer season changes for Springfield television station KYTV, channel 3, made the statement that the deer killing “Chronic Wasting Disease” does not affect people. That is an incorrect statement, which is easily debunked. It does transfer from deer, elk, cattle or sheep and goats to humans and

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm There’s a lot of people fishing. I don’t know what they are catching. Everybody fishes for blue cats and flatheads. They are doing good on blue cats and flatheads on trotlines and limb lines. Rod and reel fishing has been tough. The river is low with no

I want to alert everyone that we intend to have our first ‘Common Sense Conservationists’ meeting of the Fall in Houston, Mo. on Thursday, September 14, beginning at 7:pm. We will meet in the rural firehouse building, situated just next of the Texas County Library. I hope to have another meeting two weeks later in

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm It’s been too hot to fish. I expect they will now that it’s cooled off. That picture I sent is of two guys a week ago who limited out on blue cats and had one flathead. They are a 37 lb. blue and a 31 lb. flathead.

In a week the dove season will open and there are two or three reasons to avoid it as far as I am concerned. For one thing, I don’t want to hunt in crowds, and I don’t like to get sweat on my shotgun, and I don’t care to get mosquito bit. But the main

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm A lot of people are buying bait to use this weekend. They haven’t reported back in yet so I don’t have any reports yet. (Saturday noon) They came back with a lot of fish. These are the two biggest. Bobbie Dains sent a photo- a 37 lb.

There are some problems this time of year for an outdoorsman who takes to the woods. It is the beginning of a more aggressive situation with copperheads due to the heat and skin- shedding time. And the yellow jackets nesting in the ground can be awful if you step on a nest of them. Then