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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 4897266" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>That's exactly what started my decline on my main farm. Back in the early 2000s, TWRA trapped 60 hens and 15 jakes off the farm next to me (they were wanting some toms as well, but the bachelor group didn't wander into the cannon net). That spring, hunting was incredible. 4 or 5 toms were following a single hen around. Squawk on a call and 2 or 3 toms were in your lap in 10 minutes. But the drastic reduction in hens caused a drastic reduction in poults, and the remaining nesting hens couldn't keep up with predation, and our local flock dwindled to nothing over the next 5 years. Before that, I bought a sportsmans license every year to support TWRA, even though I had a landowner exemption. After they overharvested my local population, I refused to buy another license until I moved to MS and was forced to buy NR license. I'm still bitter about what TWRA did to my local flock, and we still haven't gotten back to 25% of what the population used to be. I dont know if those birds were sent to Texas or somewhere else in TN, but TWRA was trading our birds to TX at the time.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 4897266, member: 2805"] That's exactly what started my decline on my main farm. Back in the early 2000s, TWRA trapped 60 hens and 15 jakes off the farm next to me (they were wanting some toms as well, but the bachelor group didn't wander into the cannon net). That spring, hunting was incredible. 4 or 5 toms were following a single hen around. Squawk on a call and 2 or 3 toms were in your lap in 10 minutes. But the drastic reduction in hens caused a drastic reduction in poults, and the remaining nesting hens couldn't keep up with predation, and our local flock dwindled to nothing over the next 5 years. Before that, I bought a sportsmans license every year to support TWRA, even though I had a landowner exemption. After they overharvested my local population, I refused to buy another license until I moved to MS and was forced to buy NR license. I'm still bitter about what TWRA did to my local flock, and we still haven't gotten back to 25% of what the population used to be. I dont know if those birds were sent to Texas or somewhere else in TN, but TWRA was trading our birds to TX at the time. Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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