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Two in on day? Season over

Started by g8rvet, February 20, 2015, 06:59:19 PM

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g8rvet

Florida is allowing this year, for birds taken on private land, to harvest your season bag limit on the same day (2 birds, same day, still 2 per spring).  Has been 1 per day, 2 per season.

Several times in the past, I would have been able to kill 2 birds on the same hunt.  Not 2 in one shot, but kill one and have another hang around and peck the victim.

Would be hard early in the season to just end it all in one day and I don't know what I will do. I do know I have enough friends and family that hunt, leaving my gun at home and just calling would still be a blast, so I am not sure what I will do.  I would say in the last 10 years, I probably only fill one tag about 1/2 of the time, so it is not like #2 is a slam dunk every year.  A lot of times after I kill #1 I am more into helping others get theirs, so I don't think it would affect me much to end it soon.

Anyone else in a legal state fill their tag early and regret it?  Anyone pass and regret it?  Just curious.  Hopefully I have to make a game day decision! 
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Tail Feathers

Guides may like it.  Get the guy done and gone and bring in another client. 
If I was hunting my local spot, I probably wouldn't take advantage of that.  I'd want the opportunity to come back for another hunt.
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guesswho

I hunt Georgia and you can kill three in one shot if you choose to do so.  I won't do it.  I'm a one bird per hunt kind of guy.  But thirty minutes after I've killed is another hunt.  I have killed three in a day, but it was three hunts spread over about six hours.
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Green Trumpeter

Only can take 1 per day up here in Ontario but even if I could fill both tags in one day I never would.  I enjoy the whole process of the hunt too much to have my season end in one outing.

hobbes

Quote from: guesswho on February 20, 2015, 07:09:03 PM
I hunt Georgia and you can kill three in one shot if you choose to do so.  I won't do it.  I'm a one bird per hunt kind of guy.  But thirty minutes after I've killed is another hunt.  I have killed three in a day, but it was three hunts spread over about six hours.

I'd prefer this. 

I don't mind two being killed on one set up as long as I've got a buddy or one of my kids along.  I don't want to end the season that quick.  However,  traveling to an additional state or two is a good way to cure that problem.

Gamblinman

Can kill 4 in one day here in Texas. I have done it when I'm traveling to multiple states in the past.

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alloutdoors

#6
Only one per day here in NY in the spring, even if we could kill two at once I'm not sure I would under most circumstances (late in the season or knowing you had limited time left to hunt would be exceptions). If I'm traveling though and I've spent a couple hundred on an out of state license and probably only have a few days to hunt anyway then I am absolutely going to take multiple birds if it's allowed and the opportunity presents itself.

owlhoot

A friend and myself shot 4 in Kansas a few years back. We were all smirks and smiles until it dawned that Missouri was 2 weeks away. Now i like getting that opening day bird, but after that i could hunt til the last day and bird or no bird be entirely satisfied with the season.

mgm1955

Quote from: Gamblinman on February 20, 2015, 07:46:40 PM
Can kill 4 in one day here in Texas. I have done it when I'm traveling to multiple states in the past.

Gman
Done it myself under similar circumstances.

Bigspurs68

If I were on a trip and the opportunity came up, then yep. I'd pop 2. If I only hunted one state each spring, it would kill me to be done in one day.
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Gobble!

Wouldn't think twice. I know enough people who would like to hunt with me.

silvestris

My thought has always been that you cheat yourself or someone else of a recreational experience, maybe several recreational experiences without doubling or tripling or quadrupling the experience.
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gobbler777

one per day, two per season in Maryland
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crappieangler

If I have plans in other states, I would be more prone to doubling in my home state.  If I have friends that need help calling, etc....I would double in my home state.

If it's just one state and I have no others planning on my help, I'm prolonging the season unless I have other variables like long travel distance to get to my spot regularly.

nativeks

I will do it given the chance but shot #2 has to be a high percentage shot. Then I concentrate on fishing and putting other folks on birds. I like to turkey hunt, but I like to do lots of other things too.