Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New Trophy's
New trophy room comments
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Classifieds
Trophy Room
New items
New comments
Latest content
Latest updates
Latest reviews
Author list
Series list
Search showcase
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Long Beards & Spurs
Dang Jakes!!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 4882759" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>It may not be as simple as you think... depending on whether you are seeing a normal number of hens or not.</p><p></p><p>Sure, jakes can gang up on a single longbeard and whip him into submission, I've seen that a million times.</p><p></p><p>But when I'm hunting a property with several jakes, no LB's and very few to no adult hens (I'm not talking about jennies, they usually are present and around the jakes), the population is in freefall at that area, and your particular location doesn't have as good of nesting habitat as another place nearby. Essentially what happens is as the population falls, the hens choose the best habitat, the toms follow, and the toms push the jakes out of the best habitat to whatever is leftover. When the population is high, the best habitat is saturated with hens, and spillover to the poorer habitat and bring toms with them.</p><p></p><p>Now if you are seeing plenty of adult hens (not jennies) and no toms, you've got the habitat, but the toms have already been killed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 4882759, member: 2805"] It may not be as simple as you think... depending on whether you are seeing a normal number of hens or not. Sure, jakes can gang up on a single longbeard and whip him into submission, I've seen that a million times. But when I'm hunting a property with several jakes, no LB's and very few to no adult hens (I'm not talking about jennies, they usually are present and around the jakes), the population is in freefall at that area, and your particular location doesn't have as good of nesting habitat as another place nearby. Essentially what happens is as the population falls, the hens choose the best habitat, the toms follow, and the toms push the jakes out of the best habitat to whatever is leftover. When the population is high, the best habitat is saturated with hens, and spillover to the poorer habitat and bring toms with them. Now if you are seeing plenty of adult hens (not jennies) and no toms, you've got the habitat, but the toms have already been killed. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Long Beards & Spurs
Dang Jakes!!
Top