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March 24 TFWC Commission Meeting
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<blockquote data-quote="deerfever" data-source="post: 5595611" data-attributes="member: 13434"><p>I think what most are upset about is the fact that there has been absolutely zero evidence from anywhere that a two week delay helps and our turkey coordinator recommended no change at this point. In fact the study by Dr. Harper in TN documents no reproductive benefits whatsoever between delayed and non delayed areas. So you lose the first two weeks of April to hunt the last two weeks of May for no benefits at all? The only gain is nonresident hunters possibly not showing up as much. Nonresident hunters should have nothing to do with our season setting dates at all and didn't when commission changed the dates it was just a random change on day two of the meeting. . Put a quota on non residents the first two weeks like Mississippi does, limit them to 1 bird in the first 10 days on public like Alabama does. Alabama even opens private land one week March 25, and public the next April 1, also Bama allows no decoys the first 10 days, Make the first week residents only on public. All kinds of things to do but you never set a season based off non residents, you fix the problem for your residents and move forward. Great hatch here in TN and according to this article the best hatch in years in Mississippi. No delay in either? How did it happen? Weather.....<em> A Man will just have to wait until the 15th and get after them Memorial day weekend, nothing you can do about this season. Good luck the 15th! </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerfever, post: 5595611, member: 13434"] I think what most are upset about is the fact that there has been absolutely zero evidence from anywhere that a two week delay helps and our turkey coordinator recommended no change at this point. In fact the study by Dr. Harper in TN documents no reproductive benefits whatsoever between delayed and non delayed areas. So you lose the first two weeks of April to hunt the last two weeks of May for no benefits at all? The only gain is nonresident hunters possibly not showing up as much. Nonresident hunters should have nothing to do with our season setting dates at all and didn't when commission changed the dates it was just a random change on day two of the meeting. . Put a quota on non residents the first two weeks like Mississippi does, limit them to 1 bird in the first 10 days on public like Alabama does. Alabama even opens private land one week March 25, and public the next April 1, also Bama allows no decoys the first 10 days, Make the first week residents only on public. All kinds of things to do but you never set a season based off non residents, you fix the problem for your residents and move forward. Great hatch here in TN and according to this article the best hatch in years in Mississippi. No delay in either? How did it happen? Weather.....[I] A Man will just have to wait until the 15th and get after them Memorial day weekend, nothing you can do about this season. Good luck the 15th! [/I] [/QUOTE]
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