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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5360915" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I think the way to look at it is looking at historical harvest data for the season as a whole. Ever since TN established a turkey season, over half the entire season's kill is slammed into the first 9 days of the 6 week season. The remaining 44 days are responsible for the other half.</p><p></p><p>Pushing the season back 2 weeks will not change harvest numbers nor timing of the kills one bit. Majority of the kill will still be frontloaded in the first 9 days just like before... it's just now there will be 15,000 more toms on the landscape during early April (the MOST CRUCIAL time) when the majority of breeding is beginning to occur.</p><p></p><p>No doubt about it, turkey hunting in the second half of May is gonna be tough. Birds will be going into feeding mode and shut down earlier in the day, gobblers will begin to group back up and start roaming, but there will still be gobbling birds available to hunt early mornings.</p><p></p><p>For mostly selfish reasons, I'm really looking forward to hunting unpressured birds mid April when they are always the most susceptible to calling (after a few hens have been bred and are breaking off from the breeding flocks mid day). Gobbling activity on the roost should be the best in years opening weekend. Pushing season opening back will also align TN with other states to the north/ east/ and west, reducing early NR trips to TN.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, again for mostly selfish reasons, I think this is really going to hurt the quality of hunting in MS (and perhaps FL and AL). If MS keeps opening up mid March, I see it becoming THE destination state for the early season travelling turkey hunter. And as an aside... even in south MS where birds breed earlier than north MS... the majority of breeding doesn't even start here until late March/ early April. The hens I've seen this year (and years past) down here have been hatching out 3rd wk May.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5360915, member: 2805"] I think the way to look at it is looking at historical harvest data for the season as a whole. Ever since TN established a turkey season, over half the entire season's kill is slammed into the first 9 days of the 6 week season. The remaining 44 days are responsible for the other half. Pushing the season back 2 weeks will not change harvest numbers nor timing of the kills one bit. Majority of the kill will still be frontloaded in the first 9 days just like before... it's just now there will be 15,000 more toms on the landscape during early April (the MOST CRUCIAL time) when the majority of breeding is beginning to occur. No doubt about it, turkey hunting in the second half of May is gonna be tough. Birds will be going into feeding mode and shut down earlier in the day, gobblers will begin to group back up and start roaming, but there will still be gobbling birds available to hunt early mornings. For mostly selfish reasons, I'm really looking forward to hunting unpressured birds mid April when they are always the most susceptible to calling (after a few hens have been bred and are breaking off from the breeding flocks mid day). Gobbling activity on the roost should be the best in years opening weekend. Pushing season opening back will also align TN with other states to the north/ east/ and west, reducing early NR trips to TN. Unfortunately, again for mostly selfish reasons, I think this is really going to hurt the quality of hunting in MS (and perhaps FL and AL). If MS keeps opening up mid March, I see it becoming THE destination state for the early season travelling turkey hunter. And as an aside... even in south MS where birds breed earlier than north MS... the majority of breeding doesn't even start here until late March/ early April. The hens I've seen this year (and years past) down here have been hatching out 3rd wk May. [/QUOTE]
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