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Question about delaying season opener
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<blockquote data-quote="poorhunter" data-source="post: 5584371" data-attributes="member: 16537"><p>I have no doubt that hawks kill poults, and even the occasional adult turkey, but there is zero evidence that their predation of turkeys has any effect on a population level. There are a lot of hawks now, but there were a lot of hawks 10 years ago and lot of hawks 20 years ago. There's a lot of coons and skunks, but there always has been. These predators have always been around and in basically in the same numbers. There is something else at work that is causing the turkey decline, just like there was with quail. </p><p></p><p>As for decoys, there is no doubt that turkeys will get wise to them and do so quickly. But they are so effective prior to them getting wise to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poorhunter, post: 5584371, member: 16537"] I have no doubt that hawks kill poults, and even the occasional adult turkey, but there is zero evidence that their predation of turkeys has any effect on a population level. There are a lot of hawks now, but there were a lot of hawks 10 years ago and lot of hawks 20 years ago. There’s a lot of coons and skunks, but there always has been. These predators have always been around and in basically in the same numbers. There is something else at work that is causing the turkey decline, just like there was with quail. As for decoys, there is no doubt that turkeys will get wise to them and do so quickly. But they are so effective prior to them getting wise to them. [/QUOTE]
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