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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Atoler] #2460487
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Originally Posted by Atoler
Just seems like you need to spend more time enjoying the outdoors, you've been posting something new to complain about constantly this season.
Well I think people that constantly post kill pics and what # bird they're on and whether it was on public land should spend more times enjoying the outdoors...seems like they're not getting everything they want when the hunt's over.

Oh I know they're proud...

But seriously, I enjoy looking at people's pictures and reading stories of people's hunts but I'm bothered at how it's become such a numbers game.

I also get irritated when people say they didn't have a good season because they didn't "tag out." Or even duck hunters saying the same thing about a particular hunt because they didn't kill their 6 ducks or their 15 doves or what not.

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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Atoler] #2460496
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Originally Posted by Atoler
Didn't realize posting to social media was a requirement, guess I'll go back and check the regs.
I don't think you understood what I was getting at...

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460498
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Originally Posted by ozarktroutbum
Originally Posted by Atoler
Just seems like you need to spend more time enjoying the outdoors, you've been posting something new to complain about constantly this season.
Well I think people that constantly post kill pics and what # bird they're on and whether it was on public land should spend more times enjoying the outdoors...seems like they're not getting everything they want when the hunt's over.

Oh I know they're proud...

But seriously, I enjoy looking at people's pictures and reading stories of people's hunts but I'm bothered at how it's become such a numbers game.

I also get irritated when people say they didn't have a good season because they didn't "tag out." Or even duck hunters saying the same thing about a particular hunt because they didn't kill their 6 ducks or their 15 doves or what not.

Well the people that post the numbers are prob going by the book its the ones that dont u shoild be worried about...and why do u care if soneone says they had a bad season?? Maybe thell just quit and give u a better chance...sounds like u dont want everybody and there brother huntin anyway..


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460512
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criticising the best hunting show out there..those boys are legit and actually what we need MORE of

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: 257wbymag] #2460547
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Originally Posted by 257wbymag
I don't have much respect for a fully abled grown man who sits in a pop up tent in a plot or wherever and waits on a turkey to walk up and shoot it. Period


Or kill em at 60-70 yds. That ain't turkey hunting in my book.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: deerhunt1988] #2460576
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Originally Posted by deerhunt1988
criticising the best hunting show out there..those boys are legit and actually what we need MORE of


X2. I check their YouTube channel every day hoping they've got a new video up. They're the best videos out there right now

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: crenshawco] #2460581
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Originally Posted by crenshawco
Originally Posted by deerhunt1988
criticising the best hunting show out there..those boys are legit and actually what we need MORE of


X2. I check their YouTube channel every day hoping they've got a new video up. They're the best videos out there right now

Agreed! no sponsorship to push and not selling anything, but hunting success or fail and good times doing it.


Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote
Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460600
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I've killed a bunch of birds in arguably one of the hardest places to hunt them birds Bankhead national Forest yes there's a bunch of people but that's no excuse to not getting a bird or enjoying the outdoors. I welcome the new hunters as should everyone else. We were all new to the game at one point and hunters numbers are going down every year and if we don't start bringing new people to the sport in a few years we are really going to be in trouble.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Bustinbeards] #2460611
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I think your perspective on increasing public land pressure depends a lot on your area of the state. I hunted public land in Wilcox Co when I was in HS, and there was a whole lot of pressure and a whole lot of bad manners. That ain't something that's new. The Coosa WMA was an absolute zoo back in the 70s through the 90s. Hunting it was when I decided that it was impossible for legal hunting to wipe out all the gobblers from an area. Some of those turkeys on the main roads would have 4-5 people calling to them every morning, and yet they survived. And those turkeys always gobbled great on it; better than any other place I've hunted for Easterns.

But after about 2000, the hunting pressure was noticeably less. I don't know why; I always suspected that serious hunters usually joined a club, and casual hunters gave up after the first week. It doesn't hurt for me to talk about it now; most of it has been leased out and the small amount that remains is cutover.

Turkey hunters have always been crazy, so that's nothing new. I think most of the blind/decoy type hunters will eventually give up turkey hunting. Hunting that way just can't be as addicting as talking to them. I could be wrong, and other areas of the state may be much different than what I have experienced.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: 257wbymag] #2460657
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Originally Posted by 257wbymag
I don't have much respect for a fully abled grown man who sits in a pop up tent in a plot or wherever and waits on a turkey to walk up and shoot it. Period

This.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: poorcountrypreacher] #2460661
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I agree PCP. I've talked with guys who've killed a bird or 2, out of a blind, and they have that 'meh, I don't get it' attitude. I've never seen that from anyone, that I've taken out, after I call one into their lap. Even better if they can't get the shot for awhile. Now that's excitement!

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: poorcountrypreacher] #2460663
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Originally Posted by poorcountrypreacher


I think your perspective on increasing public land pressure depends a lot on your area of the state. I hunted public land in Wilcox Co when I was in HS, and there was a whole lot of pressure and a whole lot of bad manners. That ain't something that's new. The Coosa WMA was an absolute zoo back in the 70s through the 90s. Hunting it was when I decided that it was impossible for legal hunting to wipe out all the gobblers from an area. Some of those turkeys on the main roads would have 4-5 people calling to them every morning, and yet they survived. And those turkeys always gobbled great on it; better than any other place I've hunted for Easterns.

But after about 2000, the hunting pressure was noticeably less. I don't know why; I always suspected that serious hunters usually joined a club, and casual hunters gave up after the first week. It doesn't hurt for me to talk about it now; most of it has been leased out and the small amount that remains is cutover.

Turkey hunters have always been crazy, so that's nothing new. I think most of the blind/decoy type hunters will eventually give up turkey hunting. Hunting that way just can't be as addicting as talking to them. I could be wrong, and other areas of the state may be much different than what I have experienced.


I like your perspective


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460750
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Originally Posted by ozarktroutbum
But since we're taking that route...How many turkeys have you actually killed that you didn't post to social media?

Not sure exactly where you're going with that question, but I don't put my turkey pics on the web either. Not even on aldeer.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: buckbrush] #2460754
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Originally Posted by buckbrush
. I welcome the new hunters as should everyone else. We were all new to the game at one point and hunters numbers are going down every year and if we don't start bringing new people to the sport in a few years we are really going to be in trouble.

I don't see that at all. License sales are no indication of hunter numbers.
From what I've seen in the past 20 years, hunters keep increasing exponentially.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Out back] #2460812
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Originally Posted by Out back
Originally Posted by ozarktroutbum
But since we're taking that route...How many turkeys have you actually killed that you didn't post to social media?

Not sure exactly where you're going with that question, but I don't put my turkey pics on the web either. Not even on aldeer.
I normally do not either. The way he asked how many I had actual killed came across as disparaging IMO so in turn I decided to ask him that...I might have taken it personal but I considered it to be personal. Obviously Austin posts a lot of his kill pics so that's what I was getting at. Whether he meant it ugly I don't know but that's how I perceived it at the time.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460823
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I agree there isn't alot off difference in public and private they are all just turkeys. Places like Coosa and Little river are as good as most private ground. When you can pull up at Mlberry Fork and hear 6 different birds at daylight thats hard to beat. Those birds fly down and walk to the nearest plot and get shot I mean they don't know who owns the land.


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I would rather dig a ditch with a toothpick. Than set in a blind to turkey hunt. That's not what's it's about. Lim hanger 1959

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460944
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I didn’t realize “deer hunting” turkeys was so frowned upon! I have hunted public land since I started hunting over 20 yrs ago. I have seen just about anything you can imagine and gone through all stages of the public land hunter, from stingy and possessive to now just grateful to be outside doing what I love. I have been involved in heated arguments before sunrise, where looking back now I probably should’ve feared for my life, to now welcoming the opportunity to meet someone who shares the same passion as I do. However, that doesn’t nessecarily mean I’m going to share information with them or welcome them to knowingly cut me off! Every deer and turkey I have killed, with the exception of a few, has come from public ground and I agree that a turkey is a turkey. If you aren’t where he wants to be, 9 times out of 10 you don’t stand a chance. I don’t see the difference in setting up and waiting one out and circling around to get in front of one that is going away from you... not as exciting if he’s silent but the same result. Kinda like shooting a jake because he was gobbling and strutting...he is still a jake. And I have shot jakes and passed on jakes. I just enjoy hunting, and now with young children and limited time, more than ever. Competitive nature has made its way into hunting and it is running rampant. # this and age or score that...or “oh yeah, well how many have you killed?” Or “what’s the biggest on your wall?” blah blah blah.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Out back] #2460964
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Originally Posted by Out back
Originally Posted by buckbrush
. I welcome the new hunters as should everyone else. We were all new to the game at one point and hunters numbers are going down every year and if we don't start bringing new people to the sport in a few years we are really going to be in trouble.

I don't see that at all. License sales are no indication of hunter numbers.
From what I've seen in the past 20 years, hunters keep increasing exponentially.



Well U.S. Fish and Wildlife services would disagree hunters numbers are down 2.2 million from 2011.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2460973
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Well then I disagree with US fish and wildlife.
Overall (across the USA) numbers might be down.
But in Alabama, I can only wish that was true.


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