TWRC lowers bag limit to three and ends "bonus" turkeys on WMAs for the next two seasons. Five counties along the Mississippi River now have a two-bird limit, and other counties have changes including no more autumn season in Lincoln County.


https://newschannel9.com/sports/out...sion-votes-down-nighttime-coyote-hunting

We will be next.


What they could explore rather than lowering the limit, is stop the absurd practice of shooting hens in that state.

I don't think the few bearded hens that are killed every spring/fall is what is causing declines in so many areas of our state. I do agree though that hens should never be killed.

I am on the Tennessee turkey hunter Facebook page and you think there is only a few killed?? Good Lord I’ve never seen so many people blatantly shoot bearded hens not mistakenly and kill as many jakes as they do in Tennessee...they get all mad when I call em out for sucking at turkey hunting and settling for those lol but no wonder there is a decline...

Them hens are fine eating.

Lol cheaper to get some good sliced turkey from the grocery store

There are just as many hens killed in Alabama as Tennessee. Dont kid yourselves.

you are full of shitt if you believe that....

Hens with or without beads were legal in fall season.

Those are Mardi Gras hens. The one with most beads has the best rack.

They show the most titties

If you listen to the turkey biologists, shooting mature gobblers is pretty absurd. Not saying I agree, but that's what they say.

It throws the whole pecking order into chaos.

They sort that out pretty quickly. Shoot a hen lose a nest every season she is fertile.

And if they REALLY believed that mess (that taking out mature gobblers too early affects breeding dynamics), the second rule change after starting the season later would be to outlaw decoys, and fans, and all that other stupid chit. There is nothing at all about saving the life of gobbler number 4 or 5 (killed later in the season by default) that addresses the fact that gobblers 1 through 3 had their entire defense system switched off by a damn fan as he otherwise stood in the middle of a bunch of hens, basically unkillable at that moment until he laid eyes on the God-forsaken thing and now he marches to his almost guaranteed death like a zombie. Barely different than watching Jimmy Houston shoot a damn drugged deer in a pen.

It's interesting how virtually all of that is coming from a couple of biologists who post on Facebook. The more that people buy into that theory, the more studies are funded and the more money they make.
Ask one of those guys how many more poults you have in areas that aren't hunted and they don't know - needs more funding.

I saw the biggest drove of poults this morning that I've seen in years. Somehow those hens reproduced in spite of the hunting.

Been seeing more poults than normal also in North Alabama. Bet it is the same in Tennessee. In 2 years when the 2 year old gobblers are setting the woods on fire. These ass goblins will be patting themselves on the back and telling everyone what a good regulation change they made.

414 bearded hens killed this past spring, statewide. That's about 4 per county. Ya I call that a few. But like I said before, I'm completely against shooting a hen anytime.

Banning decoys, fans, and reaping/fanning was one of my suggestions when I emailed them. It will never happen though.

Why did they lower the limit? Are they claiming low population numbers of something?

400ish hens killed in Tennessee this spring. If you dont think there were 400 hens killed in the state of Alabama this spring whether bearded, or collateral damage in a flock. You are out of touch with reality, and full of shitt.

It's real damn easy to pound your chest and say Alabama hunters dont do that, but they ain't any different than anywhere else in the country, and Alabamas data systems are a joke. Yall dont even have a clue as to how many gobblers were harvested in the state, and you want to act like there wasnt 400 hens killed. Like I said dont kid yourselves.