From my experience in my area in the late 90,s early 2000 we had a lot more birds on our property we only let three people turkey hunt on one of which in the late 90s was Ben Lee and two other locals from Coffeeville. They were die hard turkey hunters. Once them three gentleman passed on our land wasn’t turkey hunted for years. And we started seeing less and less turkeys. The only thing that changed was the habitat. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry that owned a tree started cutting and the timber company’s cut everything, they used to leave the timber along the drainages and creeks now they cut every damn thing. You can ride around parts of Clarke co and it looks like a bomb was dropped. Also we allowed one man to trap predators year round. In my opinion decoys are not the reason of our turkey decline. I believe more hunters, more predation, and less habitat is the reason for our decline. I can only give my opinion on my area and what I see.

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