By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The Missouri Department of Conservation is seeing a drop in the number of deer hunters. Deer and Elk Program Leader Jason Isabel says looking at the number of deer hunters he sees that it has dropped tremendously over the last decade. "If you look back about 10 years ago was our peak number of deer hunters and we're actually down about 41,000 deer hunters from where we were a decade ago,"" Isabel tells Kyle Carroll during his regular visit on the KFEQ Hotline. "And that trend is predicted to continue as the average age of our deer hunters get older and folks just drop out of hunting, and that's not a uniquely Missouri challenge that's something that other states are feeling." Isabel says with a declining number of hunters it presents a challenge for his department to look at how deer management needs to be handled in the future. Isabel says while there is a number of older hunters, it is common for people to stop
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