I haven’t been turkey hunting near as long as most of you but it seems to me that if a later starting date really improved turkey numbers then Winston county would have the greatest population in the state. They have opened late a long time.

If they are worried enough to push back dates and lower the limits, then why not just make them harder to kill. You can believe what you want to about decoys but I see a lot of videos of birds killed every year that would’ve never been killed without the decoys set out or at least wouldn’t have been killed with the same set up.

I say outlaw decoys, especially reaping, stop shooting jakes and lower the limit to 3 gobblers with the option to turn in 10 trapped predators each for 1 more gobbler tag. 2 extra gobbler tags maximum.