Originally Posted by turkey247
Originally Posted by Clem

Some kind of avian disease.
Some kind of pesticide or combo of them.
Cyclical reproduction and recruitment (getting poults to age 2+)
Predation on poults in down cycle periods - partly due to a decline in trapping and predator hunting in general (raccoons, bobcats, possums, hogs, coyotes)
The people who kill 8 or 9 birds in a season in their state (over the limit)

Perhaps it's just a long-term cycle. Dunno. But something's going on.


So..........you bust the door open with - Limit to 3 and shorten the season!!

But now, you are not so sure. And nothing in that list, absolutely nothing, has any relation to a limit on male turkey for the honest man.



Perhaps that's why the 5-bird limit hasn't changed, turkey247.

But something's going on that is impacting the turkey populations in the Southeast.

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