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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 3,600 Likes: 5
10 point
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Joined: May 2013
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I am seeing more turkeys than I have seen in years. Tracks in places I don't ever remember seeing tracks.Just wondering with all the talk about turkey populations,are you guys seeing more,less,or about the same?
You haven't been blocked until you've been flock blocked!!!
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 11,195 Likes: 138
Booner
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Joined: Dec 2009
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Way less. Our rds are usually full of tracks. Since the last rain I found 1 set of tracks
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Posts: 124
3 point
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Joined: Oct 2012
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Def seen more birds then years past on our place.
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Posts: 3,829
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 3,829 |
We have a TON of Hens on our place but so far I think the hens have kicked the GOBS out ..... as they are missing in action....
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporation's Thomas Jefferson. 1812
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Posts: 122
3 point
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 122 |
fewest amount we have had in Butler county in 25 years!
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Posts: 4,700
10 point
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Joined: Jan 2007
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Plenty of turkey and coyote tracks. Not much gobbling.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
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Posts: 8,764 Likes: 36
14 point
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Joined: Jan 2014
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Bout the same where I hunt, some years are better than others but it all averages out
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Posts: 6,076 Likes: 19
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Posts: 51
spike
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birds are up on my places, my patience cost me one this weekend and had dogs run another bird off I was working.
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Posts: 535
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More this year than last 2 years, or at least it seems that way.
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Posts: 12,855 Likes: 42
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
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Turkey population seems about the same in the 2 places I have hunted. Unfortunately, the turkey hunter has gone downhill a lot since last year.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 15,416 Likes: 16
Old Mossy Horns
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Joined: Mar 2013
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Less in the places I've been, so far.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Joined: Apr 2000
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More in most, fewer in a couple
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
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Posts: 283
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Joined: Mar 2013
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I'm definitely seeing more birds. I think we had an awesome hatch the last 2 years. We have a TON of jakes and 2 year old gobblers and more hens than I care to mention. 3 years ago, we quit bush hogging until June and we also started leaving a bunch of thick stuff around the edges of our fields and roads. I think it has had a huge impact.
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Posts: 283 |
The other thing we have done the last three years is break up about half of every field in early March. I've bought in to the whole "diversity of habitat" idea. With the cutting of the fields, they can scratch around for worms, grubs, etc. and walk to the other side of the field and be in knee high grass with grasshoppers and whatever else. I'ts good stuff
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Joined: Mar 2015
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Ours is way down worst turkey season ever so far. We used to have a ton of turkeys all over and now you will be lucky to fine one or two tracks throughout about 500 acres. Dont know where they went but they ain't here anymore.
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Joined: Sep 2012
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Way down, I'm not seeing tracks where I always see tracks and not hearing gobbling where I always hear gobbling. I have even branched out and started trying new spots. So far I have logged around 25 miles on foot and heard 5 gobbles(all on property I can't hunt) and I've seen 1 hen turkey. I walked 6.29 miles this morning and never heard a gobble.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 783
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 783 |
More than normal. Got a good group of 5 jakes that's gonna be fun to hunt in a couple years.
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Posts: 1,254 Likes: 8
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Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 1,254 Likes: 8 |
Got 25 2 year olds and 20 jakes and 6 or 8 older gobblers on game
cam pics. We have killed 2 gobblers so far. Gonna let the kids
kill 3 more.
One more good hatch should get it back to where it was 10 years ago.
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