Curious...

[TurkeyBurd]

noone else kilt any burds this Fall besides Bone Collector and I?

 

[Setterman]

I don't hunt turkeys in the fall. I have thought about it, then my childhood lessons from old timers back home rear their head and I put the thought aside. Back home killing hens is taboo, and I was brought up when it came to turkeys, only hunting them in the spring, and only a mature gobbler would be killed.

I could care less if others get jazzed about fall turkey hunting, I am sure it is fun.

I am puzzled a little by the folks who kill gobblers during the fall, it seems to me that those would be given a pass until spring.

 

[stik]

they won't let me shoot them in roane or loudon co.
and we didn't make it to morgan co. during that time.

as far as shooting gobblers in the fall, NO passes from me. i don't hunt them in the spring.

 

[Beekeeper]

they won't let me shoot them in roane or loudon co.
and we didn't make it to morgan co. during that time.

as far as shooting gobblers in the fall, NO passes from me. i don't hunt them in the spring.

Can't kill them in McMinn or Rhea either!!

 

[TurkeyBurd]

Agreed about the toms, but thinning the hens doesnt hurt a thing.

Also my 5 from the spring have been long gone from the freezer.

Not a one goes to waste.

But I see your point.(That is hard for me to say to you.) LOL

I don't hunt turkeys in the fall. I have thought about it, then my childhood lessons from old timers back home rear their head and I put the thought aside. Back home killing hens is taboo, and I was brought up when it came to turkeys, only hunting them in the spring, and only a mature gobbler would be killed.

I could care less if others get jazzed about fall turkey hunting, I am sure it is fun.

I am puzzled a little by the folks who kill gobblers during the fall, it seems to me that those would be given a pass until spring.

 

[TNTomtaker01]

Never got a chance to go wanted to just was busy all week.

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

I had to work and couldn't hunt during the week..... plus I don't really have a place to fall hunt.

 

[easy45]

My county was closed this year

 

[knightrider]

didnt get a chance to go,but i for one think it should be hen only, why protect gobblers in the spring by only allowing one a day be harvested than open them up to flock shooting in the fall?doesnt make since to me,be like having an all you could shoot buck season in the spring.

 

[TurkeyBurd]

Understand your point!

We try not to kill males in the fall, young jakes are confused for hens from time to time though.

Save the Toms for the 'dance of Spring'.

didnt get a chance to go,but i for one think it should be hen only, why protect gobblers in the spring by only allowing one a day be harvested than open them up to flock shooting in the fall?doesnt make since to me,be like having an all you could shoot buck season in the spring.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

We have a season in my county but not enough turkeys to justify any conservation minded person shooting hens. And I hate to shoot a gobbler on my place in the Fall, I have few enough gobblers around in the Spring as it is.

 

[stik]

We have a season in my county but not enough turkeys to justify any conservation minded person shooting hens. And I hate to shoot a gobbler on my place in the Fall, I have few enough gobblers around in the Spring as it is.

not enough? 1 is too many!! :grin:

 

[4onaside]

As always, to each his own, and that's the way that it should be. I hunted once this fall just to see turkeys and I did! But I doubt if I would have shot a hen, even it was within range(which they weren't). I would like as many male birds as possible on my place in the springtime that are gobbling and come to my call every now and then. And I really could care less if he has a 4" beard or a 13" beard(I killed one of each last spring). lol

 

[Lawrence]

I hunted in the fall back in the 80's in MO
and we killed alot of hens but it was nothing to see 300-400
birds in a flock. Now that I live here in Tn I just Spring hunt
Fall hunting is fun but It would be hard for me to shoot a hen because my spots dont have that many birds

 

[jb3]

I use to feel the same way about not shooting hens until recently. Kind of the same feeling I use to have about shooting does. Now that I'm covered up in the birds, some of those hens got to go.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Cumberland has 682 square miles of land surface, counting the big city and all that. Reported Spring harvest was 344 birds last year. Thats about .5 birds a square mile harvested and reported. Not that great in my eyes but of course everyone has their own ideas on what is a big population and what isnt. And I dont think a fall hunt affects populations much at all so Im not saying you shouldnt have a hunt or anything like that.

Now compare that with a top county like Dickson, 938 birds harvested and reported last year Spring hunt on 490 square miles.
Thats 1.9 per square mile harvest and reported. Now thats ALOT of birds to me.

 

[knightrider]

Any county that has a fall season should have a huge population of byrds. Cumberland county has plenty of 'em but no fall season yet. I'd guess its going to be added soon with the way they've populated this area, especially Catoosa.

have you looked at harvest numbers for catoosa last year and before, hardly a huge population of birds its a ghost town out there, they killed 400 of off 80000 acres last year

 

[paradis1142]

Any county that has a fall season should have a huge population of byrds. Cumberland county has plenty of 'em but no fall season yet. I'd guess its going to be added soon with the way they've populated this area, especially Catoosa.

have you looked at harvest numbers for catoosa last year and before, hardly a huge population of birds its a ghost town out there, they killed 400 of off 80000 acres last year

If they killed 400 birds off of Catoosa last year then that place is pretty awesome according to the figures that SMSTONE22 posted up.

 

[paradis1142]

Those were all jakes or gobblers also, no females.

Lots of birds there, very non vocal birds.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

When I run the figures on Catoosa it shows 91 birds for the Spring hunts in 2010 not 400? 640 acres = 1 square mile. 80,000 acres +- on Catoosa so 125 square miles. Thats a big portion of the county. So 91 birds harvested on 125 square miles is 0.728 per square mile, slightly better than the county average.

 

[knightrider]

When I run the figures on Catoosa it shows 91 birds for the Spring hunts in 2010 not 400? 640 acres = 1 square mile. 80,000 acres +- on Catoosa so 125 square miles. Thats a big portion of the county. So 91 birds harvested on 125 square miles is 0.728 per square mile, slightly better than the county average.

you sir are absolutely correct i have no ideal what i was looking at last night that showed 400 birds :crazy: i went back and looked again after reading this post. thank you for clearing up my mistake, now 90 birds off of 80000 acres seems awful low to me, correct me if im wrong but isnt that like 1 bird for every 880 acres on ground that is not covered in houses or concrete so it should be way higher than the county figure. thanks for clearing up my crazy figures :grin:

 

[LA man]

we dont have a fall season, also had 2 jakes and 2 hens in my yard today

 

[spitndrum]

I would of if I woulda got to make the trip up

 

[Anonymous]

Used to fall turkey hunt a lot back home in Florida. Callin longbeards to the gun in the fall is quite a challenge.

 

[bvoss]

I;m too busy chasing deer in the fall. Now when spring gets here.....its ON!