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No decoys in AL first 10 days
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<blockquote data-quote="MickThompson" data-source="post: 5320811" data-attributes="member: 3172"><p>There are many reasons to have a quota hunt besides reaching or setting a maximum sustained harvest- quality of hunt is a big one for turkeys. I'd be surprised if there isn't a quota wma in the state besides possibly Yuchi that draw a hunter quota many times over the legal birds contained on the property. Not saying the acres/hunter number is right, but it is what it is. Anyone that knows anything about turkeys will also tell you that it's difficult if not impossible to count turkeys and subsequently develop the perfect harvest goal. Regulations have to almost always be conservative and to some degree reactive. </p><p></p><p>I would argue that bonus birds incentivize filling tags with birds that would otherwise go unkilled (jakes in particular) or risking wounding loss on marginal shots because the tag is "lost" if it's not used in 3 days. I'd argue that bonus everything should be done away with for these reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MickThompson, post: 5320811, member: 3172"] There are many reasons to have a quota hunt besides reaching or setting a maximum sustained harvest- quality of hunt is a big one for turkeys. I'd be surprised if there isn't a quota wma in the state besides possibly Yuchi that draw a hunter quota many times over the legal birds contained on the property. Not saying the acres/hunter number is right, but it is what it is. Anyone that knows anything about turkeys will also tell you that it's difficult if not impossible to count turkeys and subsequently develop the perfect harvest goal. Regulations have to almost always be conservative and to some degree reactive. I would argue that bonus birds incentivize filling tags with birds that would otherwise go unkilled (jakes in particular) or risking wounding loss on marginal shots because the tag is "lost" if it's not used in 3 days. I'd argue that bonus everything should be done away with for these reasons. [/QUOTE]
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