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Sounds like another deer hunter trying to integrate deer hunting and scouting Into turkeys. I hate whitetail deer and deer hunting.

Turkey hunting Is about the game, not the size. 2 year olds play the same as 5 year olds. Any longbeard is fair game to me. Hell, jakes can play every once in a while.

Glad I am from the south.

never once said I haven't. but I haven't heard many gobble: FACT

I always considered myself a good hunter and woodsman and when we decided to start turkey hunting, I thought it would be no problem to kill a turkey on our place in Alabama. We saw lots of turkeys the first deer season we were on this place. Well come that first hunt we made we had birds gobbling all over the place and they made total fools of my brother and I. They ran us in the ground. We had no clue turkeys were so hard to hunt. Fast farward to the second year. We had birds but they were logging on our place so we were limited on areas we could hunt. Got my arse kicked again. My brother was able to finally kill his 1st bird on the 3rd day of the hunt. After learning from the many many mistakes we made and lots of reading on this site and advice from the sure nuff killers in here, our 1st trip this year my brother and I killed 3 birds in a 2 day hunt. We were about as proud as 2 men could be,because we actually was able to play the whole game. It took me 3 years to kill a bird that I had originally thought I was just gonna walk in the woods and kill. I have never hunted turkeys in any other state so I can't say it's easier but as been said many times before" if you can kill a turkey in Alabama you can kill one anywhere" and I believe this to be true.

I love how he posts all this stuff and then goes into hiding. We all tried to be nice and respectful in the last thread you posted, but now after all this arrogance and pretty much sayn we don't do it right down here, please stop the trollin man. It's one thing to come down, compare, and have a legit discussion about the differences between our birds and yalls, but when you come down here like an arrogant yankee, we don't want your kind on our boards. Please just move on and troll some other state such as california or wisconsin boards.

Just for this I'm going to MN next season and gonna try to make them tame birds extinct. I need 25 volunteers to split a room and gas. I have some family up there but I don't like them because they are Yankees that we could probably stay with while we chirp us some birds up.

We kill every full fan gobbler that gets into range because we have too. It's an addictions with no cure. We are so mad at the turkeys that we need to kill them all. We kill 5 birds a year because they won't allow us to kill 6.

I dont even turkey hunt, but count me and the 1100 in.. Yea Cmon..

Hell, I bet even I could kill one of them MN birds

There's your answer.

Let's not get carried away now.

Gobbler4me. I didn't go into hiding. I went to bed, I work nights. 7pm to 7am this week. And I'm not trolling or internet scouting what ever that means. I'm just trying to understand your management practices. I've said for years that MN birds are far easier to harvest that the WV birds that schooled me browning up. I'm just trying to figure out if its because we have such a restricted hunt compared to you. I know that killing a tom has very little impact on the overall population. It just seams that if you killed less gobblers that you would have more gobblers to hunt.
As muck as some think. I'm not butt hurt that you van kill 5 and I only get 1. Truth is, I have 5 tags myself this year. My 1 tag. 1 for a first time turkey hunter that I'm getting hooked. 1 for a first time hunter. 1 for a avid bow hunter that's never hunted turkeys. And 1 for a coworkers son. I hope to give each and every one the best hunting experience of there lifetimes.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings. That was not my intention.

Your state lets folks shoot hens? And you are trying to understand our management practices? Oh.......ok.......I get it now. You want to learn how Minnesota can help increase their turkey population. Stop shooting hens would be step number one............then maybe we won't have to ship you guys any more birds to restock.

I'd have to put MN on my places I would never live if you can only kill one turkey.

Yep my thoughts too

Yes Minnesota does allow you to shoot hens in the fall but no one really does. I don't know anyone that buys a fall tag and actually turkey hunts. Everyone that I know that buys a fall licence just do it to have the tag in there pocket while bow hunting for deer. Just incase your able o get to full draw on one out of a tree stand.

With 5 tags you should be done in about 5 hours right?

Fall 2014........ 8,193 hunters harvested 1,078 birds.

I just pulled the most current results that I can find on fall permits and harvest. Sorry it doesn't break down hens verses gobblers. In 2011 almost 5400 fall permits were issued. Total harvest that was reported was 953 state wide. We as a state really don't shoot that many birds in the fall even though any bird is legal.

Your good yekrut. All I could find was 2011 and back. Looks like a avg of 1000 birds state wide for the fall. To bad they don't break it down to male or female.