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<blockquote data-quote="poorhunter" data-source="post: 5337787" data-attributes="member: 16537"><p>I tried to get this across to some of the guys that hunt the leases around me, both for deer and turkey. Property that borders mine is 200 acres and has 4 guys that hunt it. It's great for both deer and turkey, but they all want to kill a bird. The property on the other side of that one is 300 acres and 4-6 guys from Chattanooga hunt it and they feed corn. Even during turkey season, when they aren't there, the deer and turkey will be in the yard of the trailer they stay in. Drive by it a bunch and most times there were birds in the yard…until this year when I haven't seen a hunter there all year and I have more turkeys in our holler than the past 5 combined. I don't see any of the guys on the big lease (few thousand acres) that borders the back of my property so I don't know how it goes there. Point being, like LBL said, too many guys hunting a dwindling resource. Reducing the bag limit will reduce hunter numbers and hunter effort in the woods. "Limit is 3 so I'll just kill two" is not conserving the resource when even killing one is too many sometimes. I went from killing four a year with tons of birds left over to two total in 4 seasons. People see the bag limit and ignore everything that's happening to the turkeys, especially when there's so many guys that say "if it's legal, do it" or say that "the population isn't declining, you just don't know how to hunt! I've got plenty of birds!".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poorhunter, post: 5337787, member: 16537"] I tried to get this across to some of the guys that hunt the leases around me, both for deer and turkey. Property that borders mine is 200 acres and has 4 guys that hunt it. It’s great for both deer and turkey, but they all want to kill a bird. The property on the other side of that one is 300 acres and 4-6 guys from Chattanooga hunt it and they feed corn. Even during turkey season, when they aren’t there, the deer and turkey will be in the yard of the trailer they stay in. Drive by it a bunch and most times there were birds in the yard…until this year when I haven’t seen a hunter there all year and I have more turkeys in our holler than the past 5 combined. I don’t see any of the guys on the big lease (few thousand acres) that borders the back of my property so I don’t know how it goes there. Point being, like LBL said, too many guys hunting a dwindling resource. Reducing the bag limit will reduce hunter numbers and hunter effort in the woods. “Limit is 3 so I’ll just kill two” is not conserving the resource when even killing one is too many sometimes. I went from killing four a year with tons of birds left over to two total in 4 seasons. People see the bag limit and ignore everything that’s happening to the turkeys, especially when there’s so many guys that say “if it’s legal, do it” or say that “the population isn’t declining, you just don’t know how to hunt! I’ve got plenty of birds!”. [/QUOTE]
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