Originally Posted by CNC
Yep……Frankie is right…….Hunters arent anywhere even close to being the top predator…….The number of birds being taken by hunters comes from the 5% that’s left over after everything else takes their share…..Nest predation takes 75-80% and then avian predators and bobcats, etc start thinning out what does hatch. By the time a hunter ever pulls the trigger on a grown gobbler, other critters have already taken out exponentially more turkeys than the one he’s killing


Read that one more time, replacement takes how long for that gobbler.

Turkeys in general are born looking for a way to feed something else.

Always heard that quail lose 70-80% of the population yearly.
What’s it for turkeys?

Who’s saying hunters are the top predator? Raptors probably account for the majority of turkey deaths yet there is no legal recourse. So now coons and or foxes and bobcats and the lowly opossum


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