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<blockquote data-quote="Andy S." data-source="post: 5061081" data-attributes="member: 131"><p>I respectfully disagree. Between me and my circle of friends that turkey hunt, and all the turkey hunters I keep tabs on via hunting forums, most of us had considerable more time and mornings to hunt last year compared to pre-COVID. For my inner circle, we mostly have office jobs and with the maxi-flex work schedules where we could work 40 hours whenever we wanted, we took advantage of the mornings (<em>first 2-3 hours</em>) and the pretty weather days to hunt A LOT more last year than the previous years. We also found more hunters to drag along with us in the field so we could still enjoy the outdoors and continue hunting all season long. I hunted out of state in an area I'm very familiar with and I have never seen the number of out of state tags (<em>differing States</em>), nor the shear volume of hunters as I did last year. It was a very noticeable difference on some pretty rugged public land where most guys do not dream of hunting. Numerous states across the southeast saw similar increases in hunting pressure right after the pandemic hit and unemployment spiked. Dr. Chambelain (UGA), who I follow closely and is very in-tune with the eastern wild turkey, issued a white paper on the potential effects down the road due to the 2020 pandemic fueled onslaught of wild turkeys. As you eluded to, the resource had to be there, likely from an above average 2018 hatch in some areas, but I suspect most of those 2 y/o birds were mowed down last spring. The Audubom article below talks about the 2020 surge in hunters afield across the southeast and it also has a link to Chamberlain's white paper.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.audubon.org/news/pandemic-fueled-surge-wild-turkey-hunting-tests-declining-populations[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy S., post: 5061081, member: 131"] I respectfully disagree. Between me and my circle of friends that turkey hunt, and all the turkey hunters I keep tabs on via hunting forums, most of us had considerable more time and mornings to hunt last year compared to pre-COVID. For my inner circle, we mostly have office jobs and with the maxi-flex work schedules where we could work 40 hours whenever we wanted, we took advantage of the mornings ([I]first 2-3 hours[/I]) and the pretty weather days to hunt A LOT more last year than the previous years. We also found more hunters to drag along with us in the field so we could still enjoy the outdoors and continue hunting all season long. I hunted out of state in an area I'm very familiar with and I have never seen the number of out of state tags ([I]differing States[/I]), nor the shear volume of hunters as I did last year. It was a very noticeable difference on some pretty rugged public land where most guys do not dream of hunting. Numerous states across the southeast saw similar increases in hunting pressure right after the pandemic hit and unemployment spiked. Dr. Chambelain (UGA), who I follow closely and is very in-tune with the eastern wild turkey, issued a white paper on the potential effects down the road due to the 2020 pandemic fueled onslaught of wild turkeys. As you eluded to, the resource had to be there, likely from an above average 2018 hatch in some areas, but I suspect most of those 2 y/o birds were mowed down last spring. The Audubom article below talks about the 2020 surge in hunters afield across the southeast and it also has a link to Chamberlain's white paper. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.audubon.org/news/pandemic-fueled-surge-wild-turkey-hunting-tests-declining-populations[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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