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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4880831" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>The 3-yr-old Tom I killed on the 2nd day of this year's season </p><p>was approximately 3/4 mile from the nearest property line of a 1,000-acre-plus tract,</p><p>and much farther than that from any corn field.</p><p>I'm 99.99% certain there was no corn anywhere on this property.</p><p>But my bird had corn in his craw when I killed him around 10 a.m.</p><p></p><p>And I don't buy the idea they might be getting corn from last year's harvested corn fields.</p><p>That is all gone. Deer, flocks of blackbirds, crows, you name it, they've eaten it up well before turkey season opens.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For the 1st weekend of the season, I agree.</p><p></p><p>That percentage probably drops thereafter for a variety of reasons.</p><p>But <u>as to our annual reported</u> turkey harvest,</p><p>I suspect <u>at least 10%</u> are killed within 100 yds of a corn on the ground.</p><p></p><p>Many are killed within 150 yds of the homes where the shooters reside,</p><p>often, a single person killing multiple turkeys on his 5-acre "mini" farm,</p><p>which is more than get killed legally on the surrounding several hundred acres of good turkey habitat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4880831, member: 1409"] The 3-yr-old Tom I killed on the 2nd day of this year's season was approximately 3/4 mile from the nearest property line of a 1,000-acre-plus tract, and much farther than that from any corn field. I'm 99.99% certain there was no corn anywhere on this property. But my bird had corn in his craw when I killed him around 10 a.m. And I don't buy the idea they might be getting corn from last year's harvested corn fields. That is all gone. Deer, flocks of blackbirds, crows, you name it, they've eaten it up well before turkey season opens. For the 1st weekend of the season, I agree. That percentage probably drops thereafter for a variety of reasons. But [u]as to our annual reported[/u] turkey harvest, I suspect [u]at least 10%[/u] are killed within 100 yds of a corn on the ground. Many are killed within 150 yds of the homes where the shooters reside, often, a single person killing multiple turkeys on his 5-acre "mini" farm, which is more than get killed legally on the surrounding several hundred acres of good turkey habitat. [/QUOTE]
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