Won't make a difference. Maybe if they cut to 3 it would have helped a little more.

I would venture to say that actual numbers are probably 25 - 50% higher than what game check shows and the "limit" aint gonna stop most people.

If they keep lowering the limits, maybe they could do a bonus tag for every (?) number of predators you bring in. Kind of like a bounty system, rewarded with an extra tag or two. That might actually help the population some.

He has an agenda, and the message on each thread is the same. He won’t be happy until the limit is 1 or zero. It’s just jealous hunter syndrome in disguise of conservation.

Thats a bad thing?

90+% of turkey hunters don't kill three, much less 4 or 5. The problem is the outlaws. Guys that kill 8-10. You can pass all the laws you want, but until we have game wardens to enforce them, you have nothing. Night hunting is supposedly illegal in Alabama, but no one does anything about it.

Turkey 24 7 what agenda do I have?

Besides me not enjoying watching the Turkey numbers decline and wanting more turkeys what is it you keep bitching about. Please explain my agenda so everyone including me can understand it.

Maybe I should just say you have an agenda every time you whine about how the state stole the best days of the season from you.

Though I’d like to see the state offer incentives to the real problem but under this regime all we’ll see is increased license and fees for whatever stupidity they come up with

Really what should happen is the state should start their experiments in their controlled,managed WMA’s to show us common folks they really know what they’re doing and we can follow suit on private and leased property

I’m not trying to shame anybody for using them because I have done both on more than one occasion……but if fans and gobbler decoys weren’t used we could go back to starting March 15 and have a daily limit of one gobbler a day and I promise you we’d have way more turkeys than we have now.

I was rolling my eyes at this more than your post!

Places that can support a guy killing 5 birds don't need turkey limits cut. An extra gobbler in Montgomery County won't help Cullman county much.

Ill say this. Since we don't know how many gobblers are even in the state, nor the turkey population, we have to use fabricated numbers given by the state. If 2100 birds or an 8% reduction in harvest (a bird per 25 square miles!) would be true, someone please explain how this will lead to increased reproduction. One gobbler per 25 square miles is a drop of water in the ocean type of scenario. Yes, one gobbler saved is one more gobbler in the population but everything I have heard is that poult recruitment is THE problem so how does saving a few gobblers increase poult recruitment and the population overall.

If killing a gobbler in the Spring does nothing to the overall population of turkeys, why even have a limit and why does it matter how they are taken?

Completely agree with this, i fear there is a rising number of turkey hunters who rely solely on fanning and sitting on fields with decoys. Eliminating that would save a lot more turkeys then eliminating a 5th bird. Most of the people who kill 5 birds kill their 5 and then start taking other people and watch 10-15 die a year. These are also the same people who have a lot of different properties and make sure not to over hunt/ over shoot each property so they continue to have the opportunity for great turkey hunting year after year.

If the new public land rules are designed to curb the out of state youtube guys then why not just have those rules in affect for out of state license holders? Why are we all punished?

Even our Director said "it doesn't matter if the limit is 5 or 50" Limits don't impact reproduction....much. Can you overshoot your gobbler population, yes, on heavily hunted areas but, generally, you are only punishing yourself (think management areas). Could overshooting a gobbler population impact reproduction, I would guess in extreme cases, possibly. My question remains. How does current gobbler harvest impact reproduction, the limiting factor in the "decline" issue? How does going from 6 to 5 to 3 or 1 (where it seems we are heading) help increase poult recruitment?

Maybe ole chuck could do a Q&A with Aldeer and answer some of these questions 🤷🏻‍♂️

I spelled it out pretty well. And if you are confused - then heads up - somebody is hacking your account and posting in the turkey forum fairly regular.

That’s been my experience and have been saying it for years. However, when it comes to the actual killing of turkeys, some seem to think it does. They think they don’t, but their language does.

Well I am jealous of no one and I do not want a one bird limit or for people not to be able to shoot turkeys during the spring so you seem to be wrong in each of your two points. I do not have any agenda so that makes you 0 for 3. Now if you would like to make any factual statement about me I would love to read it. Or you could jist keep whining about how the state has wronged you.