One statistic I'd love to know the answer to (although I doubt there's any reasonable way to get an accurate estimate) is what percentage of these newly recruited hunters that are apparently flooding public lands stick with it more than a year or 2. I ask because, frankly, turkey hunting is hard. And it's exponentially harder on public land than on private land for a variety of reasons. I can't help but think that a lot of these "new hunters" watch some videos that make it look a lot easier than it actually is, go out and give it a try only to get their ass kicked a few times and say "f--- it, I'll go fishing". That's why I don't get too worked up over the youtube thing...the kind of folks that are only flooding to areas because of some youtube videos likely won't be there long.

I mean, you'd have to be a brainless, window-licking IDOT to go out year after year chasing these damn birds on public land with virtually no success, and continue to do it....