These season dates are silly.
Indeed they are. I also wish we had our fall season back like it used to be.
These season dates are silly.
That’s on my list of things to do at some point, somewhere. GA is trying to make an outlaw of me this year.Indeed they are. I also wish we had our fall season back like it used to be.
I’d be for it, if it fixed the problem. But it won’t
Seems like last year quite a few on here were saying how low the turkey numbers were and that the gobblers were getting shot before they could breed out the hens.
Yep on the incubation dates especially when on a ag field you can see two hens an their brood flocked up and one brood will be twice the size as the other poults, then go down the road half mile and see some poults the size of softballs. I guess their idea of peak incubation is the span of a month or more.One more soap box rant. They don’t even have accurate peak incubation dates for all areas of the state. Think about that! How do you know when and where seasons should fall for the turkey doc’s nonsensical theory when you don’t have complete data???
I had both Emily and the GA NWTF biologist Ricky tell me there wasn’t much difference in peak incubation from N-S GA. When I offered both of them the chance to come make an assessment on the property I manage in Brooks county, for actual (conflicting) data, there was no effort made. When I openly questioned (disagreed with) their responses about incubation dates it seemed we were living in different worlds.
A simple look at the poult report thread here gives a great idea of the N to S gradient, but it’s still being ignored…
Good night.
Yep on the incubation dates especially when on a ag field you can see two hens an their brood flocked up and one brood will be twice the size as the other poults, then go down the road half mile and see some poults the size of softballs. I guess their idea of peak incubation is the span of a month or more.
What ticks me off more is when a landowner does a late season burn and they or a biologist will say, don't worry the hen will renest. Yea, great but you just put them behind a month or two from the main spring greenup.
I get that sometimes a late burn was just how the cards were dealt but still think how crud the practice is.
You hit the nail on the head!Call me silly but it seems every Southern game commission is doing it's best to try and limit access to hunters by later start dates, increased quota areas, bag limit decreases, etc. Like any thing once these are implemented they will never be brought back to before the restrictions were put in place.
Meanwhile ol Johnny granola cruncher can go hiking every day on public with out restriction.
Now that’s how to scout!I saw one in Illinois last summer, a little hard to see in these pics but it was definitely a white turkey, in a bean field next to some woods.
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I have spotted some huge deer around that part of the country from that vantage point ... and I do mean huge!Now that’s how to scout!