buckpasser
Senior Member
I didn’t turkey hunt through the golden years. How many years did the high populations last?
The early glory days were about like now as far as turkey population. The difference was, you didn’t have any competition. It was rare to see another turkey hunter, and permission to hunt flowed like a mountain stream. The peak population days lasted about 8-10 years and caused the number of hunters to skyrocket exponentially (at least in my area).
Those of us around before the boom didn’t panic and call for the state to “do something!” when times got tough, because we all know that these things are cyclical. As many of us predicted, the turkey numbers are on the rise again. Let’s just hope the hunter numbers somehow become lower, or at least don’t increase and we’ll be just fine.