Nothing shocking that we didn't already assume but it quantifies what we already believed.
Numbers just about shocking. Less hogs means more turkeys. Chances that Chuckles and crew acknowledge it or do anything, i estimate to be 0%

Put a bounty on them like Louisiana did on nutria. That would help more people be interested in getting them killed.

Been saying that it is a much bigger factor than anyone is willing to acknowledge for years. Decline in turkeys on the properties I hunt corresponds with the explosion in hog numbers.

Unfortunately....Ala. Game and Fish is all about taking $$$$ IN......but Hell to th' Naw-Naw on forking any back to a Hog Hunter!!

I have seen the same thing at our lease in Forest Home.

Shot them leave them laying buzzard got get

Here's a link.

https://deerassociation.com/to-hear...medium=email&utm_campaign=08-25-2022

Glad to see it. But man we are wasting a lot of time and money in replace of common sense.

DGT studies included.

I don't agree , who hunt the land needs to take care of their own problem . Don't let coyotes and hog walk and bitch about them being there

Oh I agree with that as well, but I do know a bunch of folks who dont wanna shoot them because they dont feel like messing with them or having to move them from their hunting spot. A bounty may give them a little more incentive. I for one kill every pig or coyote I see. Opossums, bobcats and coons dont get many free passes either.

Deer don't care about dead stuff being around . I used to hunt coyotes around dead cows seen deer all the time

I killed 10 hogs today matter of fact

Oh hell , there goes your snake population .

Nah I done got them thinned out too, but then again I am anti hunting so I will probably slack up on em all soon.

Lol

Thanks for the link; that was an interesting read.

There are no hogs on any of the 3 tracts that I hunt, and maybe that's part of the reason I've seen no decline in turkey numbers. I have heard from several friends in Wilcox county that the turkey numbers on their places are down, and all of those places are infested with hogs.

If You are in ANY of th' Blackbelt Counties.....There are Hogs Near!! Lot of Swamp Bottoms.....they have to have a mud-hole to wallow in and keep Cool during the Summer.....they Don't Sweat....... And they are Damn' sure Nomads in regards to food and mud holes!!

Deer get the same treatment around the ag crops

Yeap, years back I drug a many out of the fields

Been saying this for years. AL A&M did a study on stomach contents of wild hogs in the month of June while I was on Black Warrior WMA, and it was shocking how many had turkey poult embryos in them. I declared war on the hog at BWWMA with blessings from the admin at that point.