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I agree. Push their opening day back a week or two if they really want to knock down the non residents.
I just wonder if any of you guys hunt out of the state of TN.Yep, numerous out of state trips usually each year. Alabama is one, and the changes they made certainly impacted me, but I'm not so selfish that I don't see the bigger picture.This thread is golden!
Sure do,.I had to apply and be drawn because the state realized that a limited resource cannot have unlimited people hunting it and you never put revenue over the resource. They put a quota on Non resident hunters on public the first two weeks of the season,.no need to apply if you hunt private. I have hunted public for 41 years now and never seen anything like this year , this wasn't just a Nashville area thing as it was other public I hunted in TN also. Not even the covid year of 2020 compared to this for non residents. If you have private to hunt consider yourself lucky that you didn't have to go through what the public land guys did this season. No one I have seen is suggesting to do away with non resident hunters but if I have to apply to go to certain states what would be wrong with a quota in TN for the first part of the season when non residents are looking for an early start? The one bird thing will simply have them hopping to other areas and crowding those after they kill their 1 bird I am afraid but it's a start. They will end up having to make some of these areas quota hunts for everyone if they don't get the crowd under control. The combination of our early start and promotion of our state for turkey hunting did us in this year in my opinion.This thread is golden!
I hunt 90 percent public land for Turkey
Wasn't suggesting you didn't if it sounded that way, just making a general statement for people with private. They can consider themselves lucky to have that. I have a small place but like you probably 95 percent of my time or more is on public.
Are you a TN resident?
One bird statewide for NR hunters who don't own land in TN is my opinion at this moment.
Yep
With 90% of your hunting on public then, I especially would like to see it where you get your good hunting in before the NR. I'd think you'd agree? More birds for you and your TN buddies to hunt.
I recognize this similarity. Good point to be made. It's a close comparison but not apples to apples in my opinion.
Does it matter if the NR hunter hunts their own lane or not? how many acres should they own before qualifying for a larger bag limit?
Thanks Buzzard Breath for putting it into perspective. It got me to take the few minutes at most and send in my concerns and recommendationsI will say this much, we sure are good at complaining about the regs on here, but we're not very good at letting TWRA know about it. Only 120 comments to TWRA on the turkey regs.
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