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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5090617" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>I hunted the 2nd quota hunt this past Wed & Thurs.</p><p>This may very well have been the first time in my decades of hunting LBL that I've actually hunted 2 consecutive days without at least hearing a distant turkey.</p><p></p><p>I did see a couple birds the first day, neither of which responded to my calling, neither of which made any turkey "sounds". Don't know the sex of either. The 2nd day, I did see a lone hen. I think the seasonably cold, rainy weather was reducing activity, but the main problem is there's just not a good turkey population at LBL any more.</p><p></p><p>Overall, saw very little turkey sign.</p><p>On the plus side, I saw zero sign of pigs, but that's in part because I was running ridges rather than the lower (wetter) areas pigs prefer.</p><p></p><p>I don't profess to know what's going on with the turkey populations, but we're majorly missing something, or a lot of somethings, and this is not limited to LBL, but the entire state of TN and much of the Southeastern U.S.</p><p></p><p>I suspect many the same issues that have caused quail to become near extinction, many those issues still unknown, are some of the same issues contributing to declining turkey populations. The only positive is that turkey populations are not as fragile as quail.</p><p></p><p>I keep mentioning quail because in my youth, there were lots & lots of quail all over LBL and all over most of TN. Bobwhite quail are very much like diminutive turkeys. There was a time when more Tennesseans hunted quail in TN than even hunt turkey today.</p><p></p><p>Many of the problems being blamed for the turkey declines all across TN and the Southeast are not as much factors at LBL as they're factors elsewhere.</p><p>Yet, like most other areas, turkey populations have been on the decline.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5090617, member: 1409"] I hunted the 2nd quota hunt this past Wed & Thurs. This may very well have been the first time in my decades of hunting LBL that I've actually hunted 2 consecutive days without at least hearing a distant turkey. I did see a couple birds the first day, neither of which responded to my calling, neither of which made any turkey "sounds". Don't know the sex of either. The 2nd day, I did see a lone hen. I think the seasonably cold, rainy weather was reducing activity, but the main problem is there's just not a good turkey population at LBL any more. Overall, saw very little turkey sign. On the plus side, I saw zero sign of pigs, but that's in part because I was running ridges rather than the lower (wetter) areas pigs prefer. I don't profess to know what's going on with the turkey populations, but we're majorly missing something, or a lot of somethings, and this is not limited to LBL, but the entire state of TN and much of the Southeastern U.S. I suspect many the same issues that have caused quail to become near extinction, many those issues still unknown, are some of the same issues contributing to declining turkey populations. The only positive is that turkey populations are not as fragile as quail. I keep mentioning quail because in my youth, there were lots & lots of quail all over LBL and all over most of TN. Bobwhite quail are very much like diminutive turkeys. There was a time when more Tennesseans hunted quail in TN than even hunt turkey today. Many of the problems being blamed for the turkey declines all across TN and the Southeast are not as much factors at LBL as they're factors elsewhere. Yet, like most other areas, turkey populations have been on the decline. [/QUOTE]
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