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Started by gutterdoc, May 11, 2016, 07:13:45 PM
Quote from: trkehunr93 on May 12, 2016, 07:43:12 AMQuote from: beakbuster10 on May 11, 2016, 10:49:32 PMQuote from: trkehunr93 on May 11, 2016, 10:04:37 PMQuote from: Greg Massey on May 11, 2016, 07:39:11 PMQuote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.X2 That's why i never fall hunt..but i don't judge people for hunting how they need to take game legal.Then you might as well not deer hunt in the fall either. Bearded hens are few and far between and the number of fall turkey hunters is too small to make a huge impact.Really?? This is laughable. I deer hunt every fall, and I haven't killed a doe in 5 years. BUT I filled all three of my VA buck tags last falls. Killed a 152, a 147, and another 120ish buck. So why can't fall hunters just shoot gobblers and jakes. Baby's don't fall out of males' hind ends. If I could deer hunt in the spring I would, but I wouldn't kill does then either. Plenty of other trigger happy good ol boys (fall turkey hunters) in my neck of the woods to kill does for me.If there was science to back up that killing hens in the fall was making such a huge impact on the turkey population then the regulations would change accordingly to biologist recommendations. If we had the amount of fall turkey hunters as spring turkey hunters then that might be the case. We have a healthy turkey population in VA and as I stated before the fall hunters, I'm one of them, are few so our impact is minimal. My point was if you hunt other species such as deer taking a few females is what keeps our game populations healthy and stable, I believe any wildlife biologist would agree. Not to mention that's there not much to discuss if the state has deemed it a legal target. This past fall I killed one doe but passed up many immature bucks for a chance at a mountable deer. Glad you measure your success rate in the deer woods in inches, I measure mine by experience.
Quote from: beakbuster10 on May 11, 2016, 10:49:32 PMQuote from: trkehunr93 on May 11, 2016, 10:04:37 PMQuote from: Greg Massey on May 11, 2016, 07:39:11 PMQuote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.X2 That's why i never fall hunt..but i don't judge people for hunting how they need to take game legal.Then you might as well not deer hunt in the fall either. Bearded hens are few and far between and the number of fall turkey hunters is too small to make a huge impact.Really?? This is laughable. I deer hunt every fall, and I haven't killed a doe in 5 years. BUT I filled all three of my VA buck tags last falls. Killed a 152, a 147, and another 120ish buck. So why can't fall hunters just shoot gobblers and jakes. Baby's don't fall out of males' hind ends. If I could deer hunt in the spring I would, but I wouldn't kill does then either. Plenty of other trigger happy good ol boys (fall turkey hunters) in my neck of the woods to kill does for me.
Quote from: trkehunr93 on May 11, 2016, 10:04:37 PMQuote from: Greg Massey on May 11, 2016, 07:39:11 PMQuote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.X2 That's why i never fall hunt..but i don't judge people for hunting how they need to take game legal.Then you might as well not deer hunt in the fall either. Bearded hens are few and far between and the number of fall turkey hunters is too small to make a huge impact.
Quote from: Greg Massey on May 11, 2016, 07:39:11 PMQuote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.X2 That's why i never fall hunt..but i don't judge people for hunting how they need to take game legal.
Quote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.
Quote from: HogBiologist on May 12, 2016, 09:52:27 AMQuote from: beakbuster10 on May 11, 2016, 10:49:32 PMQuote from: trkehunr93 on May 11, 2016, 10:04:37 PMQuote from: Greg Massey on May 11, 2016, 07:39:11 PMQuote from: SteelerFan on May 11, 2016, 07:22:36 PMHow hungry are you?I won't judge anyone for killing a legal bird, so it's all on YOU as to what defines your success / and or trophy in your mind. Me personally... I'd wait for the gobbler or go home with nothing. But that's just me.X2 That's why i never fall hunt..but i don't judge people for hunting how they need to take game legal.Then you might as well not deer hunt in the fall either. Bearded hens are few and far between and the number of fall turkey hunters is too small to make a huge impact.Really?? This is laughable. I deer hunt every fall, and I haven't killed a doe in 5 years. BUT I filled all three of my VA buck tags last falls. Killed a 152, a 147, and another 120ish buck. So why can't fall hunters just shoot gobblers and jakes. Baby's don't fall out of males' hind ends. If I could deer hunt in the spring I would, but I wouldn't kill does then either. Plenty of other trigger happy good ol boys (fall turkey hunters) in my neck of the woods to kill does for me.How is this laughable? Harvesting does is good deer management. By only harvesting bucks, you are not managing your deer herd properly. As far as hens go, I have no comment since I don't know his population. But too many does can also reduce reproduction. Not shooting does can be just as bad as shooting too many.
Quote from: fallhnt on May 12, 2016, 12:57:19 PMShoot the hen.
Quote from: ol bob on May 12, 2016, 05:16:26 PMI live in the country with milers of private land around me most wan't let you hunt. In the last 10 years I have seen hundreds of wild turkeys and a total of 1 bearded hen, so if I had killed her I don't think it would have made a difference, but a couple of years ago I had a hen come through my yard every day for almost a month she started out with 14 chicks the last time I saw her she had 2 so if you are going to worry about something it better be coyotes, bobcats, house cats, wild dogs, coons, and all the other thing after them are we are not going to have any left.