It appears that I'm wrong about that. The most recent report says: "reporting compliance with the mandatory Game Check program is only at 42.5%." This is in the annual turkey report (https://www.outdooralabama.com/site...%20Annual%20Turkey%20Report_FinalWEB.pdf). I was relying off what I remember one of the DCNR telling the board years ago as to compliance. Glad to see compliance is up. Of course, the flip side of that is there are apparently a bunch of turkeys being harvested. Better data is still good.
I have read those estimates they put out on GC compliance, but I've never seen them discuss their methodology for arriving at those numbers; do you know?
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Reducing the season days and the limit because the GC harvest was up 50% this past season kind of proves that this has nothing to do with the science.
I'd say the harvest was way up because they gobbled much better/more consistantly this year than last.
