The Wildest Deer Stories From Lake Of The Ozarks
The herd thinning kicks into high gear, as hunters head into the woods and fields across Missouri for regular firearms season for deer. The season lasts from Nov. 16–26, a half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset, every day. Antlerless weekend for firearms hunters is Dec. 6–8. Click here for the full breakdown of Missouri's deer season.
So, in the spirit of the season, we dredged the LakeExpo archives for our most interesting deer stories. And there were a few!
Whether you're sitting in a blind or wishing you were (or glad you're not!), here's some reading to keep you company in those long, dull stretches punctuated by the few seconds of adrenaline...
(laughing deer photo by CaptSpaulding, Flickr -- CC 2.0 License)
Jaelyn Harrison has an eye for a unique angle on everyday life in the Ozarks.
“Nobody desires what is bad, for what else is unhappiness but desiring bad things and getting them?” — Socrates
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is reminding deer hunters that properly disposing of carcasses of harvested deer is important in…
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — A white tailed deer, stuck on the ice in the middle of a cove, was rescued by firefighters on Jan. 18.
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Straight out of Mary’s playbook, a white-tailed deer might have felt a bit sheepish after crashing into the Tuscumbia High School cafeteria la…
CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — As drivers’ commutes align with dawn and dusk, auto collisions with deer are an unfortunate fact of life at the Lake.
A whitetail deer got a new lease on life when a crew from Atlantis Dive & Dock Salvage grabbed it by its antlers in the main channel of th…
LAURIE, Mo. — A Laurie police officer was a little rattled, but is back to work, after hitting a deer while responding to an emergency call ea…
A good trainer can teach a dog to find just about anything: cocaine, explosives, cancer — and antlers.
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Seeing a white color phase of a white-tail deer is rare. But Michael Utt of Sugar Creek now has photographs of two d…
In the winter I feed everything up here on this wooded ridgetop I call Lightnin’ Ridge. I feed squirrels and birds, deer and turkey, even a fo…