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<blockquote data-quote="deerfever" data-source="post: 5112426" data-attributes="member: 13434"><p>Personally I do not think you can look at that to tell the truth about each county. I hunt in some that are the lowest on the totem poll and they are the best I have ever seen with turkey population. Harvest rate is sometimes the result of hunter effort as the Turkey coordinator kept pointing out. Some of the counties with the most kills are not only good on turkeys but also have plenty of people hunting them and public land to go with it and are simply bigger. Lower Harvest does not necessarily mean bad turkey population as hunter effort , public land and several other factors come into play.Now if a county killed 250 birds for 10 years on average and then it drops to 100, you may have a problem in that county. I bet if you looked at more than 2021 the numbers for each county would be close over the years. I hunted a county last year that I was hesitant to even make the drive , as members here and harvest numbers had me convinced that turkeys were extinct in that area. At daylight I was definitely glad I made the hour and half drive that day. The one thing I will say for our harvest data is it's been probably the steadiest around the Southeast for the last 21 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerfever, post: 5112426, member: 13434"] Personally I do not think you can look at that to tell the truth about each county. I hunt in some that are the lowest on the totem poll and they are the best I have ever seen with turkey population. Harvest rate is sometimes the result of hunter effort as the Turkey coordinator kept pointing out. Some of the counties with the most kills are not only good on turkeys but also have plenty of people hunting them and public land to go with it and are simply bigger. Lower Harvest does not necessarily mean bad turkey population as hunter effort , public land and several other factors come into play.Now if a county killed 250 birds for 10 years on average and then it drops to 100, you may have a problem in that county. I bet if you looked at more than 2021 the numbers for each county would be close over the years. I hunted a county last year that I was hesitant to even make the drive , as members here and harvest numbers had me convinced that turkeys were extinct in that area. At daylight I was definitely glad I made the hour and half drive that day. The one thing I will say for our harvest data is it's been probably the steadiest around the Southeast for the last 21 years. [/QUOTE]
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