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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 5546177" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>Thanks for sharing! That's awesome. Although, as you say, not scientific…..but there's no better truth to the matter than your first hand experience. </p><p></p><p>We used to have tons of turkeys. I'd say around 2016-17 was the peak, then it all came crashing down…why? That's the million dollar question. From then until 2022, I may have heard 2 gobbles altogether and no turkeys were seen anywhere. We started trapping in 2021 and caught about a dozen critters. Really ramped it up and ran 18 traps in 2022. Caught 93 critters. Spring of 2022 we actually had a few birds to hunt and we saw the first poults we had seen in years. Lonely hens all over the place nesting. We now have multiple flocks utilizing the property. Some contain up to 26 turkeys. We have a group of 16 gobblers. Many groups of 8-12. Who knows if they stick around in the next several months, but I have to think we had <em>something</em> to do with their, what appears to be, a rebound. We got a dozen more traps and have been running 30.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 5546177, member: 5787"] Thanks for sharing! That’s awesome. Although, as you say, not scientific…..but there’s no better truth to the matter than your first hand experience. We used to have tons of turkeys. I’d say around 2016-17 was the peak, then it all came crashing down…why? That’s the million dollar question. From then until 2022, I may have heard 2 gobbles altogether and no turkeys were seen anywhere. We started trapping in 2021 and caught about a dozen critters. Really ramped it up and ran 18 traps in 2022. Caught 93 critters. Spring of 2022 we actually had a few birds to hunt and we saw the first poults we had seen in years. Lonely hens all over the place nesting. We now have multiple flocks utilizing the property. Some contain up to 26 turkeys. We have a group of 16 gobblers. Many groups of 8-12. Who knows if they stick around in the next several months, but I have to think we had [I]something[/I] to do with their, what appears to be, a rebound. We got a dozen more traps and have been running 30. [/QUOTE]
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