Turkey limit question / poll

[Taylor]

So many choices.
I'd leave spring like it is.
Plenty of opportunity.

Mainly, I'd opt for more fall hunting opportunities. I wonder what the participation numbers in fall really are?

As for killing jakes. MS has long had some regs on not taking jakes. I think they allow kids to shoot 'em, maybe? Don't know. Knowing how/if it has paid off over the years would be interesting. I seriously doubt a lot of hunters are filling their tags with jakes.

Doing a statewide restriction because of a bad hatch would really be hard to justify.
It would seem better to place restrictions on specific areas/regions that wildlife managers know recorded bad hatches (which I think happens most often in river bottom areas). And TWRA has done that before, example: Mississippi River Bottom.

 

[easy45]

I would take 3

 

[muddyboots]

#8

 

[user 972]

eddie C, we have a no jake policy in Miss and no one has quit hunting because of it, if anything our license sales are increasing and finding places to hunt get harder and harder, because of the stricter regs.

The idea that restricing harvests as long as they are not insane, will not quell license sales or hunters.

Captain, not to argue your point but I personally know of some folks (in both states)that have not bought licenses and quit hunting because of restrictions. some of these are family members that have hunted for years.

 

[Baxter83]

#8 with one jake.

I would like to see the juvy hunts open to either sex.

 

[wdsnipes]

3

 

[RNT]

#2 maybe even #3. 3 birds is plenty in my opinion.

 

[deerchaser007]

#7- allowing only 1 jake

BUT,.. i would shorten the season to 4 weeks only and have a noon hunting cut off everyday. I think this would greatly increase the gobbling by the mature birds in pressured areas of this state.

 

[buckmaster 320]

Can we add a # 11 ???
4 bird limit with no more than 2 being taken on open statewide spring season and no more than 2 on WMA....
Just like it was several years ago...
Absolutely NO Fall season!!!!

 

[4onaside]

I wouldn't mind going back to 3 statewide & 1 WMA bird, or 2 and 2 like it used to be in the past. Of course, I have a WMA about 20 minutes from my house, and if we went that route, it would be covered up with hunters trying to get that extra bird.

Leave the fall alone. It is a different kind of hunting that those guys are just as hardcore about as the spring hunters are. Only 2000 birds were taken last fall, with 2/3 being hens.

Reducing the jake harvest to one is futile, because most hunters who would take a jake aren't going to kill more than one anyway.

So, you're saying that those of us who kill jakes can't kill longbeards? Interesting, but totally incorrect statement. I kill whatever shows up. This season it was one jake and two longbeards. But, had it been four jakes, that's what I would have killed. Or four longbeards. Makes no difference to me, but you're the first one that has told me that I probably wont kill more than one turkey a year anyway. Nice to know. lol

 

[spitndrum]

#3 & #8

 

[Lawrence]

#2
and shorten the season about 2 weeks

 

[Wrangler95]

#8

 

[Winchester]

6

 

[baller_9]

#1 Things seem great to me. I've never done the fall deal but I see no problem with it.

 

[Anonymous]

#8

 

[Huntaholic]

#5 please!
Or buckmaster320's #11 idea,2statewide and 2 wma.