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AGFC Proposal - 1 turkey statewide
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<blockquote data-quote="utvolsfan77" data-source="post: 5328745" data-attributes="member: 14847"><p>Although I have hunted since I was a teenager in the mid 1970s, I never specifically hunted turkeys until around 2010. I try to get out in the woods a few times each spring, but I have only taken two gobblers in my entire life. Now I hate to sound like a complete idiot, but I've seen a term used frequently in this and many other threads recently in regard to turkey hunting, but I have no idea what it means. What the heck is turkey "reaping".</p><p></p><p>Also, I'll agree that turkey numbers are down drastically from where they were 10 years ago, but I cannot cite a specific cause. I do know that here in Greene County, we were usually in the top five turkey harvest counties statewide consistently until about five years ago.</p><p></p><p>During the past 10 years I've gotten trail camera photos throughout deer season and all winter long after deer season closes. In late winter I'll see large flocks of turkeys, often with 50 birds or more, feeding in pasture fields, especially on rainy days. But it seems as if the turkeys totally disappear once the season opens. Everyone always gets a good laugh out of this and harass me about being a rookie turkey hunter, yet they will readily admit that many of my observations mirror their own. This is coming from guys who have hunted turkeys for 30 years or more.</p><p></p><p>I've seen a lot of reasons suggested for the decline of our turkey populations throughout the south, and all of these suggestions appear logical and to have merit. However, I tend to agree with <strong>LBLMan</strong> and others though in that the true cause is most likely a combination of several factors, and that those factors are slightly different in different regions or even in different areas within the same region. That is why there will never be a one-stop cure statewide and more than likely it will take many years to figure all of it out in each region.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="utvolsfan77, post: 5328745, member: 14847"] Although I have hunted since I was a teenager in the mid 1970s, I never specifically hunted turkeys until around 2010. I try to get out in the woods a few times each spring, but I have only taken two gobblers in my entire life. Now I hate to sound like a complete idiot, but I've seen a term used frequently in this and many other threads recently in regard to turkey hunting, but I have no idea what it means. What the heck is turkey "reaping". Also, I'll agree that turkey numbers are down drastically from where they were 10 years ago, but I cannot cite a specific cause. I do know that here in Greene County, we were usually in the top five turkey harvest counties statewide consistently until about five years ago. During the past 10 years I've gotten trail camera photos throughout deer season and all winter long after deer season closes. In late winter I'll see large flocks of turkeys, often with 50 birds or more, feeding in pasture fields, especially on rainy days. But it seems as if the turkeys totally disappear once the season opens. Everyone always gets a good laugh out of this and harass me about being a rookie turkey hunter, yet they will readily admit that many of my observations mirror their own. This is coming from guys who have hunted turkeys for 30 years or more. I've seen a lot of reasons suggested for the decline of our turkey populations throughout the south, and all of these suggestions appear logical and to have merit. However, I tend to agree with [B]LBLMan[/B] and others though in that the true cause is most likely a combination of several factors, and that those factors are slightly different in different regions or even in different areas within the same region. That is why there will never be a one-stop cure statewide and more than likely it will take many years to figure all of it out in each region. [/QUOTE]
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