H4820 Turkey Bill, Senate Subcommitte next Thursday.....

[LabLuvR]

The low numbers don't surprise me since the weather has been so shitty,especially this week.

[M2Field]

The low numbers don't surprise me since the weather has been so shitty,especially this week.

For 10 damn years straight now. Mother nature won't give them one decent Spring without this BS. Something has changed in weather patterns.

We get heavier rains earlier in the season and more frequent. Storm system are stronger and longer lasting.

The FMNF was already flooded in most of the bottoms I've been in. Now it's a total mess. Happens every year now.

[FEETDOWN]

We aren't talking enough about hunting in the afternoons. I'd be willing to bet that people deer hunting them on food plots and near roost trees gets as many killed each spring as reaping.....

[Carolina Counsel]

We aren't talking enough about hunting in the afternoons. I'd be willing to bet that people deer hunting them on food plots and near roost trees gets as many killed each spring as reaping.....

Although I don't want any more laws, and I'm not suggesting it, I wish the turkey poets would self-impose a noon or 1pm cut off. I would GUESS that the majority of birds killed in the afternoon are bushwacked or "called in" with no gobbling (he came in silent bo).

[Smilee]

There was a glitch in the system and harvest numbers in zone 3&4 were incorrect for the last 8 days but they have since been updated FYI
ETA.....the statewide total is 5,846

Showing 1845 now for April 1-10 2024 statewide with WMA.

[FULLCHOKE]

Although I don't want any more laws, and I'm not suggesting it, I wish the turkey poets would self-impose a noon or 1pm cut off. I would GUESS that the majority of birds killed in the afternoon are bushwacked or "called in" with no gobbling (he came in silent bo).

I’ve killed two PM birds this year, one at 2:30 and one at 5:30. Both I was with for the entirety of the day since flydown. No bushwhacking, no reaping, fair and square, both died gobbling and strutting.

Although I killed them, I would be totally fine with a noon cutoff. Time spent in the woods kills more turkeys than anything else. Spend more than a couple hours at flydown, and the odds become increasingly in your favor.

[FEETDOWN]

Although I don't want any more laws, and I'm not suggesting it, I wish the turkey poets would self-impose a noon or 1pm cut off. I would GUESS that the majority of birds killed in the afternoon are bushwacked or "called in" with no gobbling (he came in silent bo).

Exactly.....

I’ve killed two PM birds this year, one at 2:30 and one at 5:30. Both I was with for the entirety of the day since flydown. No bushwhacking, no reaping, fair and square, both died gobbling and strutting.

Although I killed them, I would be totally fine with a noon cutoff. Time spent in the woods kills more turkeys than anything else. Spend more than a couple hours at flydown, and the odds become increasingly in your favor.

You're the exception rather than the rule. I'd bet my house that most PM turkeys are killed "after work" by dudes camped out on roost areas/food plots

[fro]

...you do you and leave me alone!

[Glenn]

...you do you and leave me alone!

I was about to say, I feel attacked!

[buckpro]

Exactly.....



You're the exception rather than the rule. I'd bet my house that most PM turkeys are killed "after work" by dudes camped out on roost areas/food plots

You really need to get out more.

[FULLCHOKE]

I'd bet my house that most PM turkeys are killed "after work" by dudes camped out on roost areas/food plots

The cellular trail camera totally changed the game for this type of hunter. Apparantly, it's changed the game too for those that "prebait" their properties to determine "how many" they can take a season.

[Timberman22]

I will be out of turkey restriction tomorrow. I will make sure I check in on what calls I can or should use and make sure I'm far away from food plots and known strut zones as that wouldn't be fair chase.

[Carolina Counsel]

Me, too. I'm headed to the woods with my children this weekend. Gonna use a blind, TSS, and a strutter on a remote control corvette to kill at least three longbeards, and maybe one more for myself. Won't call other than using my gobbler shaker. We plan to just sit over some fresh chufa and wait for the big boys to show up. Might even hunt all day just in case we can bushwack one late. I'll be sure to post some grip 'n grins early next week.

[FULLCHOKE]

I don’t need any of that. I have a Colonel vest. I am better than all of you.

[TXFowler]

Exactly.....



You're the exception rather than the rule. I'd bet my house that most PM turkeys are killed "after work" by dudes camped out on roost areas/food plots

Some guys only get to hunt after work most of the time, that’s the only problem with a cutoff time.


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[trash2]

And taking kids after school. How about leave it the same and restrict decoys use and OOS hunters til april 10th. Be better to just do away w them but that’s not happening. Incentives for timber companies to burn again..

[Whackumstackum]

There have been years where they gobbled in the afternoon better than the mornings. That being said, afternoon hunters aren’t to blame for the decline in turkeys, weather, habitat and dick heads who go over the limit are.

[FEETDOWN]

The cellular trail camera totally changed the game for this type of hunter. Apparantly, it's changed the game too for those that "prebait" their properties to determine "how many" they can take a season.

I don’t even know why I post on these threads, I clearly don’t know what I’m talking about and now I apparently need to get out more.

[Timberman22]

Y'all better be glad I don't make the rules because I would propose the following:

• 2 Bird Limit
• April 1 - May 1 Statewide
• Resident 1 tag - $200 or 2 tags for $250
• Resident and Non-resident Youth Tags - $50/tag Max 2
• Non-resident 1 tag - $400
• 5 year suspension of license for untagged or unchecked bird
• 5 year suspension of license for hunting over bait
• 10 year suspension of license for killing a turkey over bait
• 75% of tag proceeds go towards habitat management incentives on private and state owned land

[LabLuvR]

I don’t even know why I post on these threads, I clearly don’t know what I’m talking about and now I apparently need to get out more.

You never know what the hell you’re talking about what’s new?