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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Gobl4me]
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04/08/21 07:53 AM
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Ben2
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Thanks YouTube/social media. Pimping public turkey hunting for likes and $ has consequences. Goes like this.....More hunters. More non resident hunters. More regulations. Fewer gobblers. Earlier alarm clocks. More permit draws. Higher licenses $. Later seasons. Lower limits. 1 turkey in first week of season. Etc etc.
Ask any real turkey hunter if they’ve heard any turkeys......answer will be NO. They sure as hell don’t put it on YouTube for a hundred thousand people to watch and attempt to mimic. Alabama has been pimped harder than anywhere and it’s only going to get worst. Quit giving them views/likes and maybe they will go back to their parents basement. If you think dave owens from pinhoti aint a real turkey hunter you are nuts
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Gobl4me]
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04/08/21 08:19 AM
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Thanks YouTube/social media. Pimping public turkey hunting for likes and $ has consequences. Goes like this.....More hunters. More non resident hunters. More regulations. Fewer gobblers. Earlier alarm clocks. More permit draws. Higher licenses $. Later seasons. Lower limits. 1 turkey in first week of season. Etc etc.
Ask any real turkey hunter if they’ve heard any turkeys......answer will be NO. They sure as hell don’t put it on YouTube for a hundred thousand people to watch and attempt to mimic. Alabama has been pimped harder than anywhere and it’s only going to get worst. Quit giving them views/likes and maybe they will go back to their parents basement. I have a love/hate relationship with the youtube guys. I mean if I could make a living doing what they do, I'd do it in a heartbeat and so would everyone else here. Anyone that says otherwise is lying. And I enjoy watching them...but I hate what it's done to turkey hunting in general. I wish they'd at least be more vague about where they are...not even mention a state.
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: dirkdaddy]
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04/08/21 08:28 AM
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I think the latest THP video from georgia should serve as fair warning as to what could happen here. It sounds like the hunting in Georgia is pretty terrible. The wmas are dominated by quota hunts and there is very little actual open public to go hunt. Piss on all that but it won't shock me a bit when stuff like that is presented at cab meetings as a way to fix the Turkey population. ya, i saw that & was thinking the exact same thing - thought it was interesting that GA published all their stats online to "justify" that model, too ... thought I heard Aaron say they were going to see this Dr Chamberlain dude
Last edited by BamaGuitarDude; 04/08/21 08:30 AM.
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 08:46 AM
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nothing, good or bad, done on just WMAs will change anything about turkey hunting across Alabama
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 08:58 AM
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I took off work Tuesday and Wednesday because of decent weather days. I hunt public in NW Florida. It is the worse pressure I have seen in years. There were more people there in the middle of the week than I have ever seen and heard. But hey, what do you expect, it is public. Makes me think twice about going ahead and paying a couple grand to hunt somewhere decent. It seems it is going to take that much around these parts.
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: oldbowhunter]
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04/08/21 10:19 AM
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Too many hunters for sure. It’s almost impossible to lease good turkey land. Almost.
Every year for 20 years I would ask a guy at work if he would lease me the turkey rights on his 900 acres. He always said no but if he leased it he would offer it to me first.
Last February he came in my office and asked if I still wanted it. I tried to sound calm when I said YES.
I got a young guy at work that hunts with me a good bit to go in on the lease with me. It’s a turkey hunters Paradise.
We only hunt it when we both can go. We have hunted it 5 times and killed 4 gobblers this year.
Dreams do come true.
You have given me hope. I have a guy I ask every year, going on 10 years now. Maybe, just maybe.
"Your woodsmanship value and qualities are ten times more important than the actual calling ability."-Preston Pittman
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: oldbowhunter]
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04/08/21 10:27 AM
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Too many hunters for sure. It’s almost impossible to lease good turkey land. Almost.
Every year for 20 years I would ask a guy at work if he would lease me the turkey rights on his 900 acres. He always said no but if he leased it he would offer it to me first.
Last February he came in my office and asked if I still wanted it. I tried to sound calm when I said YES.
I got a young guy at work that hunts with me a good bit to go in on the lease with me. It’s a turkey hunters Paradise.
We only hunt it when we both can go. We have hunted it 5 times and killed 4 gobblers this year.
Dreams do come true.
I used to be fortunate enough to hunt a similar type place. We’d take 10 a year easily and had plenty leftover. My buddy died and it ended, that place is lucky to have 1or 2 gobblers on it these days.
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 11:06 AM
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Y'all don't know how good you have it in alabama. When I lived in pennsylvania, I hunted public land. There's some decent hunting up there but WAY too many people. After I moved back home the first thing I did after renting a house was start looking for private land and I never stopped. There's land out there to be had but you have to have money in hand when you find it.
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 01:02 PM
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Good for you Oldbowhunter - that’s awesome - great story - having them makes the fun possible and that sounds like the 650 I use to hav
I would hav settled to just still hav the WMA in chocktaw county - I could take multiple off that yearly
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 05:47 PM
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Kinterbish was a goodun..probly one of the best there ever was..i only hunted there a few times when i was a little feller..but they was critters galore there
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 06:11 PM
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People respected your truck at Kinterbish - it had bunch of birds - the last year I was there I tagged out and at end of season I prob knew the location of a dozen gobblers and knew land very well
Had no idea that how WMA works turkey247 - good info
It’s funny - I prob had 1/2 dozen places like Kinterbish turkey hunting (good place w turkeys) and I think - this will last for ever and it over in no time 🤣 nothing lasts w turkey hunting it seems - I always looking
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/08/21 08:52 PM
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You need turkey hunters to keep the train rolling on habitat management but there is a line where there are too many hunters. No matter how well you manage the land it will only carry so many birds.
"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred ****heads" - Colonel Charlie Beckwith Founder Delta Force
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Re: There are to many turkey hunters
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/09/21 09:54 PM
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Phil_Army
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You just gotta move from "the public" to "the private"
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