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<blockquote data-quote="younggun308" data-source="post: 5320599" data-attributes="member: 4042"><p>It's not about whether the hunt is attractive. It's about the fact that a "bonus bird" doesn't negatively impact the turkey population on WMAs with open hunts, because the bird can only be killed on one WMA where harvest is severely restricted to begin with.</p><p></p><p>You could logically argue that making a quota bird count against the drawn hunter's season limit saves a bird somewhere else. If the drawn hunt is later in the season, the hunter will strive to save their tag for that hunt; or if they draw early in the season, that's one less bird they can kill elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>But realistically, when you consider the number of quota hunters drawn who actually hunt (much less kill anything) we're talking about less than a drop in the bucket of overall harvest.</p><p></p><p>So if the logic of "bonus bucks" from deer season holds, since you're only killing an animal from a specific property with limited harvest, there is no reason to not also do "bonus birds" in the spring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="younggun308, post: 5320599, member: 4042"] It’s not about whether the hunt is attractive. It’s about the fact that a “bonus bird” doesn’t negatively impact the turkey population on WMAs with open hunts, because the bird can only be killed on one WMA where harvest is severely restricted to begin with. You could logically argue that making a quota bird count against the drawn hunter’s season limit saves a bird somewhere else. If the drawn hunt is later in the season, the hunter will strive to save their tag for that hunt; or if they draw early in the season, that’s one less bird they can kill elsewhere. But realistically, when you consider the number of quota hunters drawn who actually hunt (much less kill anything) we’re talking about less than a drop in the bucket of overall harvest. So if the logic of “bonus bucks” from deer season holds, since you’re only killing an animal from a specific property with limited harvest, there is no reason to not also do “bonus birds” in the spring. [/QUOTE]
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