Effective Wingshooting, the CONSEP Way...

Want to improve your shotgunning skills, deepen your commitment to conservation and reduce hunting expenses? Sign up to attend an upcoming CONSEP program.

Events for Saturday, July 4 - Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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Friday, August 21 – Saturday, August 22, 2009		 Nodaway Valley Friday, August 14
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Friday, September 11 – Sunday, September 13, 2009		 Jay Henges Shooting Range Wednesday, September 9
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Friday, September 18 – Sunday, September 20, 2009		 UCM Range Tuesday, September 15
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Friday, September 25 – Sunday, September 27, 2009		 Runge Conservation Nature Center Wednesday, September 23
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Friday, October 2 – Sunday, October 4, 2009		 Andy Dalton Shooting Range & OEC Friday, October 2
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Friday, October 2 – Sunday, October 4, 2009		 Ted Shanks Conservation Area Wednesday, September 30
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Friday, October 9 – Sunday, October 11, 2009		 August A. Busch C.A. Monday, October 5
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Friday, October 16 – Sunday, October 18, 2009		 Duck Creek Conservation Area Friday, October 16

What is CONSEP?

The Cooperative North American Shotgunning Education Program helps shotgun shooters, waterfowl and upland game bird hunters sharpen their skills in marksmanship, distance estimation and equipment selection, regardless of the shot material they choose to use. CONSEP-trained hunters can also contribute more to conservation and reduce hunting expenses. How? Read on.

Better Shooting, More Conservation Results—and Reduced Expenses!

Hunters have long been leaders in conservation, helping Missouri develop regulations, improve habitat and control wildlife populations. With CONSEP training, Missouri's wing shooters can become more efficient shooters, making fewer marginal shots and reducing the numbers of wounded game. This improvement in resource conservation can increase the breeding population. Further, learning to use nontoxic shot with confidence can save game birds and wildlife from lead poisoning, especially in wetland areas. In addition to boosting your wingshooting performance and conservation results, CONSEP can help you save money on expenses--fewer wasted shells means more money in your pocket!

What Will I Learn at CONSEP Seminars and Workshops?

Effective wingshooting, the CONSEP Way Seminar

Effective wingshooting, the CONSEP Way Workshop

Free Steel Shot

Because many CONSEP workshops occur on wetland areas, we shoot only nontoxic steel shot and provide it free of charge to participants. Aside from being nontoxic to wildlife, steel shot is the cheapest nontoxic shot, it holds the tightest patterns and has the shortest shot strings. If you can learn to shoot steel shot effectively, you can be more effective with lead or any other exotic nontoxic shot.

Why Use Nontoxic Shot?

Since March 1, 2007, twenty-one conservation areas have had a nontoxic shot-only regulation for all hunting with a shotgun. These conservation areas are larger wetland areas where potentially sizeable numbers of waterfowl and shorebirds concentrate in the fall and spring. The nontoxic shot regulation will reduce the incidence of lead shot ingestion, which is often fatal to all birds, including doves and scavenging birds, such as eagles that feed on waterfowl with lead shot in the carcass. Mounting evidence points to lead poisoning occurring in more than 30 species of birds other than waterfowl.

The nontoxic shot rule will apply to all hunting with a shotgun including dove, turkey, quail, rabbit and squirrel. Since 1991, waterfowl hunters in Missouri have used nontoxic shot for all duck, geese and rail hunting. Read more.