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<blockquote data-quote="Iglow" data-source="post: 5875907" data-attributes="member: 22496"><p>Well, ... I guess we disagree, the increase of coons etc. now to what they were 15 years ago can't explain the loss even if there has been an increase, what are the mass increase of predators eating the rest of the year to sustain there growing population once they've eaten the yearly crop of turkeys? Do they only eat eggs and poults for 2 months? Have turkeys suddenly lost the ability to deal with natural predators that they have delt with since they were dinosaurs? Is every other potential meal for these predators vanishing like turkeys are? Are fawns being eaten to the point that deer populations are in freefall? </p><p>As for hawks, owls etc., there is a snowballs chance in hell that we'd ever get the ok from the TWRA, USFW , the public at large or any other player to start killing any raptor of any kind for any reason. </p><p></p><p>We can't kill the raptors, we can't force people to start trapping, we can't kill enough night predators to make a difference, we can't reshape the landscape to favor nesting success, we can't do any of these things that people are pointing to to reverse the decline! If we could we would have by now. </p><p>So do we just stick out head in the sand and keep shooting till hunting turkeys is pointless? Do we keep bitching about reduced limits and seasons to keep our gun barrels hot to the end? </p><p>If we don't act on the one thing we have total control over, hunting pressure and kill, one day we will wake up and see turkey hunting in our rear view mirror just like the hunters of a century ago, fading and disappearing altogether.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iglow, post: 5875907, member: 22496"] Well, ... I guess we disagree, the increase of coons etc. now to what they were 15 years ago can't explain the loss even if there has been an increase, what are the mass increase of predators eating the rest of the year to sustain there growing population once they've eaten the yearly crop of turkeys? Do they only eat eggs and poults for 2 months? Have turkeys suddenly lost the ability to deal with natural predators that they have delt with since they were dinosaurs? Is every other potential meal for these predators vanishing like turkeys are? Are fawns being eaten to the point that deer populations are in freefall? As for hawks, owls etc., there is a snowballs chance in hell that we'd ever get the ok from the TWRA, USFW , the public at large or any other player to start killing any raptor of any kind for any reason. We can't kill the raptors, we can't force people to start trapping, we can't kill enough night predators to make a difference, we can't reshape the landscape to favor nesting success, we can't do any of these things that people are pointing to to reverse the decline! If we could we would have by now. So do we just stick out head in the sand and keep shooting till hunting turkeys is pointless? Do we keep bitching about reduced limits and seasons to keep our gun barrels hot to the end? If we don't act on the one thing we have total control over, hunting pressure and kill, one day we will wake up and see turkey hunting in our rear view mirror just like the hunters of a century ago, fading and disappearing altogether. [/QUOTE]
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