Also now with new ammunition everyone is using ,I believe folks take a lot of shots that are too far, resulting in wounding surrounding birds that may not have been a target. I said all that to say this. Hunting has changed so I’m not against making some changes myself. I believe that I could get behind pushing season back a week, as much as I enjoy the now limited time I get to spend afield, to try to lessen what I described above and give these turkeys a little more time to split up.
I used to be as hardcore of a hunter as there was, but years of rising lease prices and increasingly crowded public land I just don’t go as much. A good year for me now is between one and three birds. But I have a hope of one day taking my boys and teaching them woodsmanship and calling techniques and watching them grow into hunters and stewards of the sport, which I hope endures. We as hunters control more than you think...