Don'tDrinkTinks
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Tag before you drag
A checking station observation
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Poker
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I remember the Darin's C-Mart in Hohenwald would give you a free hat with a check in. I miss those days, but I still got a couple of hats.
SC Manimal
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I love learning the woods. I don't get to hunt, kill, or know nearly as much as a lot of guys on here but every chance I get seems different. Just started getting to share it with my kids and it's one of the best gifts God has given me.
Interesting....I've used the TWRA app but didn't realize it would work even without cell coverage....who knew??You can go online and print off your temporary tags. This link should get you there.
Remember to Tag Before You Drag, Game Check In Procedures
Report your harvest with or without cell service before you move the game. You will immediately receive a harvest confirmation number that TWRA Officers can use or verify your harvest.www.tn.gov
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I just want to add that @Setterman has been saying for years before chamberlain came along that there's a good chance that hens weren't getting bred if the boss Tom got killed to early in the season. Lol
Huntaholic
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I think he may be right too.
TNTomtaker01
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told (we all know how that goes) that turkeys will never be trapped and relocated to spread genetics around in this state again. I was told it was bc of Tyson and the chicken industry.
Huntaholic
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HELLO STRANGER!!!!! LONG TIME NO SEE!!
I would call bull hockey on the Tyson part.
Due to the costs, I doubt we see trapping and relocation unless/until the population totally fails. When you do the trapping/relocation, the area being stocked has to be closed for X number of years. While the population has been headed off the cliff in a lot of different areas of the state, I'm not sure it is at the closing part right now.
If you look at the time we posted we were posting at the same time. So no @megalomaniac I did not see your post. Did you look at the time we posted???
And we know how A LOT of boss gobblers have been killed early season while they are still courting/breeding. Most of the time, they are not leaving their harem of hens to come to a call. You can occasionally call the whole flock to you, but then you have to fool numerous sets of eyes and ears and execute the shot, without any collateral damage to the flock. Put a strutter decoy up, and instantly you have the upper hand on an old boss gobbler that is courting hens. When possible, we need to think long term and allow the boss gobbler to breed as many hens as possible to sustain the local flock over time. We all want turkeys to hunt 20 years from now, thus we need to do the little things we can to assist with that outcome, when possible.
2023 youth season kill was up 50% over 2022 and 2021 (of course, it was 2 weeks later in the year). Roughly 1/3 of the 2023 youth kill were jakes. It looked like a great weekend for the youth across the State from the photos I've seen. Congrats to all who were successful!
woodsman04
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Two weeks later makes a big difference. More hens are bred, more hens are nesting, more gobblers are lonely.
Plus we have had an early spring, and there is probably a little more cover from leaves to move on birds and call up birds easier without them seeing you from a mile away in open hardwoods.
Boll Weevil
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I got a pic of 6 toms yesterday afternoon...not a single hen in the bunch.
I was in your neck of the woods few days back and spotted 4 LBs strutting. Pulled over long enough to glass and counted 33 hens with them.
Also saw a lone stutter with 9 hens with him in same general area. 8AM timeframe.
I used it for a turkey a couple years ago.. checked the app and it wasn't on there. Called the game warden the next morning and they told me to do it again once I had a signal on my phone.
GreeneGriz
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That's funny.
Don'tDrinkTinks
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Is that my neck of the woods too? HahaI was in your neck of the woods few days back and spotted 4 LBs strutting. Pulled over long enough to glass and counted 33 hens with them.
Not really, few counties east of you.
