[quote=General] I also personally believe the limit should be 3 birds a year.
Why? How did you arrive at 3 birds being an acceptable limit?
Personal experience managing my place and seeing the decline in turkey numbers compared to 20 years ago. I manage exclusively for turkey and we have had some lean years in the past 10 years. Turkey hunting wasn’t cool 20 years ago like it is now so the number of hunters was a lot lower. I talked to a biologist this morning who has worked on my place and asked him about this podcast and he agreed with the direction Chamberlain was heading. Anybody who draws any conclusion based on game check numbers is low balling to the highest degree.
So you think that having more gobblers will produce more poults? A gobblers role in poult production is breeding. That’s it. He doesn’t protect the eggs, sit on the eggs or help raise the poults. Anecdotal evidence you’ve gathered from your property over the years does not justify a state wide lowering of the limit to 3 gobblers. If you feel your property is lean on gobblers, then don’t hunt it next year.
