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March 24 TFWC Commission Meeting
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<blockquote data-quote="deerhunter10" data-source="post: 5596472" data-attributes="member: 11992"><p>The decline is death by a thousand cuts. But the more and more we personally go it boils down to habitat I believe more than anything. Our best farm was down last year more than ever. But we neglected the habitat more for turkeys gearing more for deer. (Dumb on our part) starting last summer after season we really emphasize turkeys and over the winter and so far our numbers are coming back. Dumb and hard headed decisions the last 3 to 5 years hurt us. We will not be hunting that place this year. We are blessed with several properties and quite a bit of acres for tennessee and we can manage it, we have the equipment and the finances to do it. I would much rather these meetings be more geared towards habitat on public land and more research and talking about what practices have been proved to work and working theories. At the end of the day I love turkey hunting but I love deer more the year round chess game we play with them. But great turkey habitat is great deer habitat as well. Great deer habitat doesn't translate to turkeys always. I also think patience with these studies are going to very important. They were late to take action and that pisses me off but (hopefully) better late than never. I hope the bag limit doesn't change for the foreseeable future. The start pushed back I think needs to be implemented for atleast 5 years. And the fall season should be gone for good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerhunter10, post: 5596472, member: 11992"] The decline is death by a thousand cuts. But the more and more we personally go it boils down to habitat I believe more than anything. Our best farm was down last year more than ever. But we neglected the habitat more for turkeys gearing more for deer. (Dumb on our part) starting last summer after season we really emphasize turkeys and over the winter and so far our numbers are coming back. Dumb and hard headed decisions the last 3 to 5 years hurt us. We will not be hunting that place this year. We are blessed with several properties and quite a bit of acres for tennessee and we can manage it, we have the equipment and the finances to do it. I would much rather these meetings be more geared towards habitat on public land and more research and talking about what practices have been proved to work and working theories. At the end of the day I love turkey hunting but I love deer more the year round chess game we play with them. But great turkey habitat is great deer habitat as well. Great deer habitat doesn't translate to turkeys always. I also think patience with these studies are going to very important. They were late to take action and that pisses me off but (hopefully) better late than never. I hope the bag limit doesn't change for the foreseeable future. The start pushed back I think needs to be implemented for atleast 5 years. And the fall season should be gone for good. [/QUOTE]
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