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<blockquote data-quote="Setterman" data-source="post: 5321342" data-attributes="member: 8139"><p>To follow up on my previous post. It's crazy for me to think back to the early 2000's or there about. Myself and the other turkey hunters I talk to every day of the season back then we'd kill some birds every year but it was not like it has been for at least the last 10 years, where we all are filling our tags in numerous states. I'd be willing to bet this is repeated all over the state and country.</p><p></p><p>I started turkey hunting in 1994 as a student at Auburn. I'd kill one or two a season. I came home in 1998 first season I killed 2, and best I can recall this continued until the early 2000's when I began hitting Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee each year.</p><p></p><p>Going from hunting a dozen times a year to 40-50 meant crap tons of experience and the law of averages suddenly shifted the numbers to killing double digit birds each year and limiting out in most every state I hunted. This pattern also carried across to the guys I hunted with or talk with daily during the season. I'm sure it also translated the same all over the country.</p><p></p><p>Enter into the equation the decoy craze combined with people like me and everyone is killing lots of turkeys. The decoy stuff eliminated that learning curve so many of us went through and has immediately made novice hunters successful.</p><p></p><p>My point is, all of the factors have caused the Population declines we are seeing. We are killing too many gobblers each spring, period. It's not habitat, its Not disease, it is simply us and our effectiveness.</p><p></p><p>The only way to fix it, is to lower the total kill. Shorten days, lower limits, or outlaw the stupid decoys</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Setterman, post: 5321342, member: 8139"] To follow up on my previous post. It’s crazy for me to think back to the early 2000’s or there about. Myself and the other turkey hunters I talk to every day of the season back then we’d kill some birds every year but it was not like it has been for at least the last 10 years, where we all are filling our tags in numerous states. I’d be willing to bet this is repeated all over the state and country. I started turkey hunting in 1994 as a student at Auburn. I’d kill one or two a season. I came home in 1998 first season I killed 2, and best I can recall this continued until the early 2000’s when I began hitting Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee each year. Going from hunting a dozen times a year to 40-50 meant crap tons of experience and the law of averages suddenly shifted the numbers to killing double digit birds each year and limiting out in most every state I hunted. This pattern also carried across to the guys I hunted with or talk with daily during the season. I’m sure it also translated the same all over the country. Enter into the equation the decoy craze combined with people like me and everyone is killing lots of turkeys. The decoy stuff eliminated that learning curve so many of us went through and has immediately made novice hunters successful. My point is, all of the factors have caused the Population declines we are seeing. We are killing too many gobblers each spring, period. It’s not habitat, its Not disease, it is simply us and our effectiveness. The only way to fix it, is to lower the total kill. Shorten days, lower limits, or outlaw the stupid decoys [/QUOTE]
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