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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 5338891" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>Non-res license sales were WAY up last year but that didn't increase the jake kill. Maybe I'm being Chicken Little — I hope that's the case — but I'm guessing the increased jake kill is due largely to the lack of available gobblers. Many people only hunt one or two farms. If they go to those farms, hear a few gobblers, and feel like they'll kill one soon, the jakes aren't as tempting. If they go 2-3 times and listen to silent sunrises, then call up a pack of jakes . . . Out-of-staters likely do the same thing in that scenario, but it's not unique to them. </p><p></p><p>I have a good family friend who is an accomplished deer hunter and a good woodsman, but has never claimed to be a "real" turkey hunter (his word). I say that only to point out that he doesn't keep up with population trends or public sentiment regarding turkeys. Several years back he bought a good deer farm in Carroll County. It had plenty of turkeys, he was there a lot anyway, so he started hunting them and killed a couple every spring. I had lunch with him today. The subject of turkeys came up and he told me "I don't know what it is, but the turkeys up there just don't gobble anymore."</p><p></p><p>Sadly, I know of a few farms where they just don't gobble anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 5338891, member: 10399"] Non-res license sales were WAY up last year but that didn’t increase the jake kill. Maybe I’m being Chicken Little — I hope that’s the case — but I’m guessing the increased jake kill is due largely to the lack of available gobblers. Many people only hunt one or two farms. If they go to those farms, hear a few gobblers, and feel like they’ll kill one soon, the jakes aren’t as tempting. If they go 2-3 times and listen to silent sunrises, then call up a pack of jakes . . . Out-of-staters likely do the same thing in that scenario, but it’s not unique to them. I have a good family friend who is an accomplished deer hunter and a good woodsman, but has never claimed to be a “real” turkey hunter (his word). I say that only to point out that he doesn’t keep up with population trends or public sentiment regarding turkeys. Several years back he bought a good deer farm in Carroll County. It had plenty of turkeys, he was there a lot anyway, so he started hunting them and killed a couple every spring. I had lunch with him today. The subject of turkeys came up and he told me “I don’t know what it is, but the turkeys up there just don’t gobble anymore.” Sadly, I know of a few farms where they just don’t gobble anymore. [/QUOTE]
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