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Re: Map apps and the decline of turkeys
[Re: turkey247]
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07/04/22 04:47 PM
07/04/22 04:47 PM
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Ben2
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I joined a club 2 years ago. 2500 acres and 1 guy turkey hunts it. 3 years ago they didn’t see many turkeys. The one hunter killed a gobbler about every other year to 1 a year. He didn’t hunt it real hard. The deer hunters got tired of the coons eating all the corn out of their feeders so they started trapping them. 3 years ago they killed over 100 coons. The turkey sightings during the next deer season more than doubled The next season they killed around 70. We killed 3 gobblers the next spring and heard plenty. Killed another 25 coons the next summer and turkey population has been growing every year.
The woods are mostly loblolly pines. Some thinned, some young, some old. Some hardwood bottoms. Still have a ton of coons, especially in the areas around the Sepulga River (which is basically a glorified creek where our lease is). I think the coon population has a lot more to do with this issue than most people think. What are y’all’s thoughts? I doubt they even put a small dent in the coon numbers on 2500 acres. Would be interesting to know how many there actually are and how far they travel. Small dent huh? Ok. Fifty coons per square mile would be roughly 200 living on 2500 acres at any given time. The number 1 nest predator was roughly cut in half year 1. But - maybe you are right - we need some experts to chime in so we will know for sure. Not an expert by any means but we have killed a pile of coons over the past 3 seasons and they just keep being replaced. No noticeable difference via pictures and I would guess we have taken more than the op mentioned on half the acerage. Which is why I said it would be interesting to know how far they travel and how many there are. Seeing as you seem to know everything I was hopeful you would enlighten me with an answer.
Last edited by Ben2; 07/04/22 04:50 PM.
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Re: Map apps and the decline of turkeys
[Re: doecommander]
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07/04/22 06:12 PM
07/04/22 06:12 PM
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CNC
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Dances With Weeds
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From my observations I’m gonna say that there’s likely a lot of shuffling around going on amongst the young male coons…..There’s probably a constant struggle for dominance going on and a sizeable percentage of the young male population is being kicked on down the road day in and day out. As soon as you take one out there’s another one being shuffled back in within a few days. I'm guessing that this behavior has probably been exacerbated due to all the corn feeding peaking out the overall populations above normal carrying capacities
Last edited by CNC; 07/04/22 06:14 PM.
We dont rent pigs
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