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Started by Tnandy, May 29, 2023, 11:58:22 AM
Quote from: Paulmyr on May 29, 2023, 10:13:39 PMHow about we don't tell everybody on the planet which states have good or great turkey numbers?
Quote from: GobbleNut on May 30, 2023, 10:04:16 AMGeneral observations in the places I have hunted: (almost entirely western-states public lands)Point One: More hunters are taking more gobblers out of the population each spring than are being replaced. That fact alone points to declining quality of hunting,...and declining opportunity as more restrictions are implemented to conserve the remaining resource. Point Two: In those places where public and private properties are interspersed together (which is common), more people are moving into those private areas and doing two things. They are both posting their properties against hunting (or reserving the hunting for themselves or select individuals), and they are also attracting wildlife off of the surrounding public lands and holding it either on their property, or close enough to present problems for hunters hunting the surrounding public lands. We (me and the guys I hunt with) are consistently hunting in situations where we are trying to pull turkeys off of private properties that have intentionally made improvements on their land to attract and hold turkeys (and other wildlife) on their properties and keep them there. In many of those cases, turkeys that just a decade or two ago would consistently be on public lands near these private lands are no longer spending any time on the public lands.