Maybe these data have something to do with the changes proposed:
2020 Season Totals
16,651 gobblers total harvest reported to Game Check
Private land: 15,228
Public land total: 1,423
WMA: 631
Federal: 401
2019 Season Totals
10,854 gobblers total harvest reported to Game Check
Private land: 9,875
Public land: 979
that's a big swing.
Killing more birds is a good thing. I’m not even sure how to spin that negative. They were gobblers, not hens.
More than likely it is purely a function of Covid 19 and people being home and not at work.
That could have had some effect, but there were a lot of us saying before the season that we had a record number of turkeys and I thought the season proved that. I can tell you Covid didn't have any impact on my hunting, nor that of anyone who I talk with about turkey hunting. It probably got more beginner types into the woods, but those folks usually save more than they kill. Chuck had the nerve to say that we killed more because the season started later. Does that make any sense?
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
