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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5317977" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>About half the birds I've killed in MS were in some crazy thick stuff. A few times so thick, the gobbling turkey couldn't even figure out how to get through it to me and either gobbled up a real hen or I had to reposition to the side so he could work around the impenetrable blackberry briers and get to me. But the overall population seems to decline rapidly once the pines become so thick you can't even walk through them (chock full of privet, yaupon, wax myrtle, briers, etc), then the population explodes 2 years after the burn. That being said, they seem to prefer the more open hardwood drains between the pine stands. But since the woods are much more open, they often hang up at 50-75y not </p><p></p><p>This all may be coincidence or a legitimate pattern... but what I'm trying to figure out. Are the birds getting eaten by bobcats and coyotes when the pines get thick, or are they just moving off a few miles away for a year or two, then returning when habitat is better?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5317977, member: 2805"] About half the birds I've killed in MS were in some crazy thick stuff. A few times so thick, the gobbling turkey couldn't even figure out how to get through it to me and either gobbled up a real hen or I had to reposition to the side so he could work around the impenetrable blackberry briers and get to me. But the overall population seems to decline rapidly once the pines become so thick you can't even walk through them (chock full of privet, yaupon, wax myrtle, briers, etc), then the population explodes 2 years after the burn. That being said, they seem to prefer the more open hardwood drains between the pine stands. But since the woods are much more open, they often hang up at 50-75y not This all may be coincidence or a legitimate pattern... but what I'm trying to figure out. Are the birds getting eaten by bobcats and coyotes when the pines get thick, or are they just moving off a few miles away for a year or two, then returning when habitat is better? [/QUOTE]
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