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Turkey Population Decline - The data I think we need
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<blockquote data-quote="Bone Collector" data-source="post: 5617680" data-attributes="member: 7419"><p>I agree that the weather, predators, and other factors are tough on turkey poults, but they still shoot hens during fall season. Even if they did away with fall seasons (IDK I don't go), we have been up until recently. This issue that you and others raise, is definitely a huge problem, but I know one thing for sure, and that is if poults are not surviving and male birds are not being added to the population, then when we hunt and people make long shots and wound birds that die later or we just shoot a larger percentage of our male turkeys than can be replaced then there won't be much to hunt <strong>in the areas we can hunt</strong>. </p><p></p><p>I think the main point of my post is that we need to know what the percent of hunter success is before we just look at kill #'s and assume it was a successful season and if we are not having good hunter success, then we need to look, what we can do to change that. This would include the flip side of that coin, if we do see good hunter success then we can expand opportunities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bone Collector, post: 5617680, member: 7419"] I agree that the weather, predators, and other factors are tough on turkey poults, but they still shoot hens during fall season. Even if they did away with fall seasons (IDK I don't go), we have been up until recently. This issue that you and others raise, is definitely a huge problem, but I know one thing for sure, and that is if poults are not surviving and male birds are not being added to the population, then when we hunt and people make long shots and wound birds that die later or we just shoot a larger percentage of our male turkeys than can be replaced then there won't be much to hunt [B]in the areas we can hunt[/B]. I think the main point of my post is that we need to know what the percent of hunter success is before we just look at kill #'s and assume it was a successful season and if we are not having good hunter success, then we need to look, what we can do to change that. This would include the flip side of that coin, if we do see good hunter success then we can expand opportunities. [/QUOTE]
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