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Studies on delaying season opening?
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<blockquote data-quote="deerfever" data-source="post: 5643194" data-attributes="member: 13434"><p>I have attached some quick reads from various places. TN study by Dr. Harper showed no difference in delayed versus non delayed areas, findings below. States all over the south have had good hatches the last two years, TN included in both delayed and non delayed areas . The weather was perfect . Mississippi turkey coordinator said last year was the best hatch I believe since the 90s . They open March 15th and a week before is juvenile. He cited weather throughout the Southeast as the main reason for the great hatches , I included his comments. Arkansas even killed over 9,000 turkeys this year as bad as that sounds it's an increase , I have attached the article where they speak of good hatches due to the weather patterns since 2020, the no Jakes rule, and habitat improvements. No mention of the delay having an impact positive , negative or at all. Time will tell, LBL and Catoosa are two areas in TN that have always had a delayed season but no studies on either . You may ask some guys that hunt those places how things are going and if they continued to expand in turkey population as other areas declined since they have always had a delay. Those two would be perfect case studies. Again time will tell and I am sure more information will come available as we move forward. I certainly hope we have another great hatch. I hope guys start posting lots of pictures soon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerfever, post: 5643194, member: 13434"] I have attached some quick reads from various places. TN study by Dr. Harper showed no difference in delayed versus non delayed areas, findings below. States all over the south have had good hatches the last two years, TN included in both delayed and non delayed areas . The weather was perfect . Mississippi turkey coordinator said last year was the best hatch I believe since the 90s . They open March 15th and a week before is juvenile. He cited weather throughout the Southeast as the main reason for the great hatches , I included his comments. Arkansas even killed over 9,000 turkeys this year as bad as that sounds it's an increase , I have attached the article where they speak of good hatches due to the weather patterns since 2020, the no Jakes rule, and habitat improvements. No mention of the delay having an impact positive , negative or at all. Time will tell, LBL and Catoosa are two areas in TN that have always had a delayed season but no studies on either . You may ask some guys that hunt those places how things are going and if they continued to expand in turkey population as other areas declined since they have always had a delay. Those two would be perfect case studies. Again time will tell and I am sure more information will come available as we move forward. I certainly hope we have another great hatch. I hope guys start posting lots of pictures soon! [/QUOTE]
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