This year Missouri has enforced a new 4-point restriction law for antlered whitetail deer for rifle hunting portion. The law states that no antlered deer with less than 4 points on one side can be taken. Does, can still be taken at any time throughout all the hunting seasons. The new law is supposed to encourage the growth of younger bucks.
I think that this new law can benefit both ends. I am a hunter myself here in MO and whitetail deer is the largest game that can be hunted. Every hunter at one time or another wants a trophy buck. The most common around here is your typical 8 pointer. They are larger than that, but that is just the most common ones. Larger ones are normally 10-12 points. Anything more than that is almost non-typical. But every year a buck gets a new set of antlers. Most of the time the older they are more points it will have. On the deers behalf, they will have more of a chance to grow. Also population increase may happen. Either way, this has decreased the amount of deer taken this year. Some people are in it for the trophy. Some hunt for the food. Some for both. It would be nice to have more of an abundance of deer with larger antlers in either case. I am for this new law.
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