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Wild Turkey Science Episode #85 #4157340
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For the life of me, I don’t understand what else it is going to take for state agencies to stop with this season delay & harvest limit nonsense and start getting creative on incentivizing landscape change and predator reduction that will lead to greater poult and hen survival. The hunters and land managers will do most all of the work on their behalves, if they would just freakin do their job and lead it.

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Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
For the life of me, I don’t understand what else it is going to take for state agencies to stop with this season delay & harvest limit nonsense and start getting creative on incentivizing landscape change and predator reduction that will lead to greater poult and hen survival. The hunters and land managers will do most all of the work on their behalves, if they would just freakin do their job and lead it.


It wouldn’t cost them an extra penny either. Admit they were going in the wrong direction, put the seasons back where they belong, and use the gws and biologists already on the payroll to do outreach and education on land and predator management.


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Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
For the life of me, I don’t understand what else it is going to take for state agencies to stop with this season delay & harvest limit nonsense and start getting creative on incentivizing landscape change and predator reduction that will lead to greater poult and hen survival. The hunters and land managers will do most all of the work on their behalves, if they would just freakin do their job and lead it.


Makes you think that producing more turkeys is not what this is about.


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Originally Posted by TurkeyJoe
Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
For the life of me, I don’t understand what else it is going to take for state agencies to stop with this season delay & harvest limit nonsense and start getting creative on incentivizing landscape change and predator reduction that will lead to greater poult and hen survival. The hunters and land managers will do most all of the work on their behalves, if they would just freakin do their job and lead it.


It wouldn’t cost them an extra penny either. Admit they were going in the wrong direction, put the seasons back where they belong, and use the gws and biologists already on the payroll to do outreach and education on land and predator management.
Depending on how they did a habitat/trapping incentive program, it would certainly cost the states some $. But I GUARANTEE folks who love the wild turkey would not only participate, they would pay money to fund the “produce more turkeys” program. And the only incentive the states would have to offer would be extra tags to those who produce turkeys for everyone to enjoy, instead of this silly, short-sighted, “this is the only knob we have to turn” bullchit that Dr. Chamberlain often spews but is too stupid when it comes to human psychology to understand he could also TURN THE KNOB upward instead of downward in select cases to get the state’s desired results across the landscape. But as Mr. Steve so eloquently pointed out, I’m beginning to believe having more turkeys really isn’t their goal at all for some states (Alabama included).

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Re: Wild Turkey Science Episode #85 [Re: JUGHEAD] #4157905
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Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
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For the life of me, I don’t understand what else it is going to take for state agencies to stop with this season delay & harvest limit nonsense and start getting creative on incentivizing landscape change and predator reduction that will lead to greater poult and hen survival. The hunters and land managers will do most all of the work on their behalves, if they would just freakin do their job and lead it.


It wouldn’t cost them an extra penny either. Admit they were going in the wrong direction, put the seasons back where they belong, and use the gws and biologists already on the payroll to do outreach and education on land and predator management.
Depending on how they did a habitat/trapping incentive program, it would certainly cost the states some $. But I GUARANTEE folks who love the wild turkey would not only participate, they would pay money to fund the “produce more turkeys” program. And the only incentive the states would have to offer would be extra tags to those who produce turkeys for everyone to enjoy, instead of this silly, short-sighted, “this is the only knob we have to turn” bullchit that Dr. Chamberlain often spews but is too stupid when it comes to human psychology to understand he could also TURN THE KNOB upward instead of downward in select cases to get the state’s desired results across the landscape. But as Mr. Steve so eloquently pointed out, I’m beginning to believe having more turkeys really isn’t their goal at all for some states (Alabama included).


If folks that love the wild turkey, as you put it, should already be doing these things. So, a program shouldn’t/wouldn’t show as much, if any, gains as one might think. Also, how would one go about proving that they “produced more turkeys” to get the extra tags?


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So what I heard and no I did not listen to the entire hr but they said in the one study they had 0% recruitment then 40%, then 33% in 3 consecutive yrs with no landscape change, no predator change etc so basically the turkeys recruutment may just range 40% no matter what you do or don't do? I will try to listen to more later but thought that was interesting

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Originally Posted by Ben2
So what I heard and no I did not listen to the entire hr but they said in the one study they had 0% recruitment then 40%, then 33% in 3 consecutive yrs with no landscape change, no predator change etc so basically the turkeys recruutment may just range 40% no matter what you do or don't do? I will try to listen to more later but thought that was interesting


There’s absolutely annual variation…….That’s different though than long term growth or decline


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Originally Posted by N2TRKYS
If folks that love the wild turkey, as you put it, should already be doing these things. So, a program shouldn’t/wouldn’t show as much, if any, gains as one might think. Also, how would one go about proving that they “produced more turkeys” to get the extra tags?
I give you Exhibit A. A perfect example of the kind of people who end up in positions like the one Chuck Sykes holds. Absolutely tone deaf on relating to and motivating people.


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Originally Posted by CNC
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So what I heard and no I did not listen to the entire hr but they said in the one study they had 0% recruitment then 40%, then 33% in 3 consecutive yrs with no landscape change, no predator change etc so basically the turkeys recruutment may just range 40% no matter what you do or don't do? I will try to listen to more later but thought that was interesting


There’s absolutely annual variation…….That’s different though than long term growth or decline

Right but why would I trap, spend thousands of dollars planting, hours of time burning if all of it may result in the exact same result as if I had not done any of the things.

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Originally Posted by Ben2
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So what I heard and no I did not listen to the entire hr but they said in the one study they had 0% recruitment then 40%, then 33% in 3 consecutive yrs with no landscape change, no predator change etc so basically the turkeys recruutment may just range 40% no matter what you do or don't do? I will try to listen to more later but thought that was interesting


There’s absolutely annual variation…….That’s different though than long term growth or decline

Right but why would I trap, spend thousands of dollars planting, hours of time burning if all of it may result in the exact same result as if I had not done any of the things.


And why would anybody be a DGT disciple? Why would you rather have less/later seasons and less enjoyable season frameworks? Why, other than gobbler harvest jealousy? Why? I bet it’s that jealousy part - like it’s always been thumbup

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So what I heard and no I did not listen to the entire hr but they said in the one study they had 0% recruitment then 40%, then 33% in 3 consecutive yrs with no landscape change, no predator change etc so basically the turkeys recruutment may just range 40% no matter what you do or don't do? I will try to listen to more later but thought that was interesting


There’s absolutely annual variation…….That’s different though than long term growth or decline

Right but why would I trap, spend thousands of dollars planting, hours of time burning if all of it may result in the exact same result as if I had not done any of the things.


And why would anybody be a DGT disciple? Why would you rather have less/later seasons and less enjoyable season frameworks? Why, other than gobbler harvest jealousy? Why? I bet it’s that jealousy part - like it’s always been thumbup

Who supports DGT? Who is jealous? Who decides what is more or less enjoyable?

To me more gobblers is the goal, good on people who try to find ways to make that happen. If there is no way to make that happen so be it. More enjoyable means more turkeys I don't whine about the trees being green or the temps being to hot etc etc.

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Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
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If folks that love the wild turkey, as you put it, should already be doing these things. So, a program shouldn’t/wouldn’t show as much, if any, gains as one might think. Also, how would one go about proving that they “produced more turkeys” to get the extra tags?
I give you Exhibit A. A perfect example of the kind of people who end up in positions like the one Chuck Sykes holds. Absolutely tone deaf on relating to and motivating people.


Don’t know how you jumped to that. You gonna need some markers, though. I guess you haven’t gotten that far in your plan? I guess it’s easier to deflect than give examples. 🤷🏼‍♂️


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It’s funny to watch you two hold the line

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Originally Posted by turkey247
It’s funny to watch you two hold the line

Fun to watch you whine about anything and anyone you don't agree with. I want more gobbling turkeys, you say you have plenty, thats great! Congrats hope you kill a pile of them but for a lot of hunters we are not the same as you. I want answers on causes of turkey decline, answers on what can actually put more turkeys in the areas we hunt. Instead of answers all you do is shout it's garbage and you have an agenda anytime someone says anything you don't agree with, maybe you have the agenda? In this video they basically say nothing helps or hurts turkey populations and they just may vary by 40% annually for no rhyme or reason. If that is the case and it's just hit or miss based on where property is then we can stop doing habitat/trapping and just hope for the best.

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Originally Posted by turkey247
It’s funny to watch you two hold the line


Yep


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I thought it was interesting when they talked about how studies are showing that hunters are killing about the same percentage of gobblers across every state regardless of season dates and bag limits…..Did I understand that correctly?


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Originally Posted by CNC
I thought it was interesting when they talked about how studies are showing that hunters are killing about the same percentage of gobblers across every state regardless of season dates and bag limits…..Did I understand that correctly?


Is that the same as duck hunters. Same number of ducks being killed but average number of ducks per hunter has dropped significantly.

Maybe that what all the complaining is about.

Then again it could be some are used to seeing and hearing more birds than they are now.
As far as this jealousy thing. Maybe it’s more about being less greedy and more concern about the resource. Doesn’t matter who says what because it’s all about personal perspective.

I’ll say this one more time and shut up about it. 15-20 years ago the season went from March 20 to March 15. Up here it went from April 1 to a few days earlier.

According to a friends research we had a March 20 opening in the 60s, season closed during the 70s and restocked. Opened April 8 in the 80s and we had an explosion in population when I stated in the early 90s and had tons of birds until 07-08ish when numbers really fell off. That is in Colbert and Lauderdale. Lauderdale don’t reopen for 25 or so years and had serious numbers for a while but have fallen off. Same with southern Tennessee so it’s not just isolated. Then there’s these report thruout the southeast about plummeting turkey populations.

I get those numbers were probably artificially high.



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Originally Posted by JUGHEAD
Originally Posted by N2TRKYS
If folks that love the wild turkey, as you put it, should already be doing these things. So, a program shouldn’t/wouldn’t show as much, if any, gains as one might think. Also, how would one go about proving that they “produced more turkeys” to get the extra tags?
I give you Exhibit A. A perfect example of the kind of people who end up in positions like the one Chuck Sykes holds. Absolutely tone deaf on relating to and motivating people.


Similar to DGT. I argued with both Chuck and Chamberlain that focusing on this one theory, that I couldn't put the logic together, would lead to a waste of time and hunter confidence in the State to manage turkeys. Focusing on this takes away from the focus on the real problem - recruitment of poults into the fall population. Changing how many or when you kill gobblers can not make more turkey poults.

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Originally Posted by N2TRKYS
If folks that love the wild turkey, as you put it, should already be doing these things. So, a program shouldn’t/wouldn’t show as much, if any, gains as one might think. Also, how would one go about proving that they “produced more turkeys” to get the extra tags?
I give you Exhibit A. A perfect example of the kind of people who end up in positions like the one Chuck Sykes holds. Absolutely tone deaf on relating to and motivating people.


Don’t know how you jumped to that. You gonna need some markers, though. I guess you haven’t gotten that far in your plan? I guess it’s easier to deflect than give examples. 🤷🏼‍♂️


I have pushed, unsuccessfully, for a study that simply ranked a large sample of individual properties on a scale of poor, good, excellent (hard to define turkey populations and what parameters to decide these rankings) and do a good habitat assessment to see what habitat practices, coverage of each habitat type, trapping, feeding, harvest rate and pressure, etc made a difference. Recruitment may vary from 0-40% but, as we all know, some places consistently recruit higher than others and therefore have better populations. With the data coming out showing the vast differences in public vs private, this would tell a lot.


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