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Question about delaying season opener
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5583702" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>SO...</p><p></p><p>delayed season opening is gonna be THE single biggest detriment to the baiters.</p><p></p><p>Due to normal turkey behavior and social dynamics, baiting can absolutely manipulate where turkeys want to be just before their normal landscape distribution immediately prior to breeding. Baiters can pull almost every turkey within 1 to 2 miles to a certain spot in March, BUT once average mating starts April 10th or so, hens will absolutely leave baited properties in favor of the most ideal brood rearing habitats (and bait by itself does not make for ideal brood rearing, as poults do not eat bait). Once the hens leave the baited sites, the toms follow. By delaying season opening, baiters may only have 1 or 2 toms left to poach, instead of 6 or 7. And those not baiting who provide better nesting habitat will reap the rewards ( as they should).</p><p></p><p>Towards the end of May as the toms group back up, they become more vulnerable to bait, but not to the extent as they are during Feb/Mar as there is much more natural food available on thr landscape (new plant Greenup, and many more insects).</p><p></p><p>In short, the 2 week delay is gonna make a lot of baiters unhappy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5583702, member: 2805"] SO... delayed season opening is gonna be THE single biggest detriment to the baiters. Due to normal turkey behavior and social dynamics, baiting can absolutely manipulate where turkeys want to be just before their normal landscape distribution immediately prior to breeding. Baiters can pull almost every turkey within 1 to 2 miles to a certain spot in March, BUT once average mating starts April 10th or so, hens will absolutely leave baited properties in favor of the most ideal brood rearing habitats (and bait by itself does not make for ideal brood rearing, as poults do not eat bait). Once the hens leave the baited sites, the toms follow. By delaying season opening, baiters may only have 1 or 2 toms left to poach, instead of 6 or 7. And those not baiting who provide better nesting habitat will reap the rewards ( as they should). Towards the end of May as the toms group back up, they become more vulnerable to bait, but not to the extent as they are during Feb/Mar as there is much more natural food available on thr landscape (new plant Greenup, and many more insects). In short, the 2 week delay is gonna make a lot of baiters unhappy. [/QUOTE]
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