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Post by westfieldjoe on Nov 19, 2023 9:57:29 GMT -5
Anyone hunt turkeys this fall?
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 19, 2023 12:43:28 GMT -5
I was out a few times after tagging my buck and never saw or heard a bird.
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Post by westfieldjoe on Nov 19, 2023 14:05:55 GMT -5
There has been a flock of 14 visiting my yard all fall. No pressure it seems from hunters. I've got 12 Washington Hawthorn trees all berried out. They love to pick around them.
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 19, 2023 18:52:05 GMT -5
Fall turkey hunter pressure is a fraction of what it used to be. Less than 100,000 hunters statewide.
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Post by westfieldjoe on Nov 20, 2023 9:04:07 GMT -5
I was looking at the website for the Pa chapter of the NWTF. They have 18000 active members. They claim to have recruited 31500 hunters. Hats off to them. I wonder how many have quit turkey hunting because of the NWTFs influence over the BOC? I know of 1. Lol.
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Post by Loggy on Nov 20, 2023 19:33:35 GMT -5
Planned to get out but couldn't due to obligations on homefront. Oh well...Spring Gobbler just around the corner!  |
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 21, 2023 7:41:12 GMT -5
Planned to get out but couldn't due to obligations on homefront. Your retired, lol. |
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Post by Loggy on Nov 21, 2023 8:17:05 GMT -5
Planned to get out but couldn't due to obligations on homefront. Your retired, lol. Not really a "lol" matter......as my 89 year old mom fell and broke both femur bones this summer & ive been totally tied-up helping her transition from her 105 day nursing home stay to being able to live at her home. If not for my sister's help I would of had to pass on all hunting this year. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Nov 21, 2023 8:41:26 GMT -5
Not really a "lol" matter......as my 89 year old mom fell and broke both femur bones this summer & ive been totally tied-up helping her transition from her 105 day nursing home stay to being able to live at her home. If not for my sister's help I would of had to pass on all hunting this year. Sorry to hear that. |
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Post by Loggy on Nov 21, 2023 9:01:28 GMT -5
With her rehab facility and followup inhome PT & OT she's almost back to her prefall condition. I thought she'd never be back home but her determination with excellent therapy she's where she wants to spend the rest of her life. The PT & OT's did an onsite safety/risk analysis of her home to help minimize accident risks before she was discharged from rehab facility. I arranged for a local builder to make some home alterations per their suggestions. After a long haul....things are finally going well for mom. I also pretty much had zero time for fishing this season as well but am comforted we did all we could for our mom.
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Post by dougl on Nov 21, 2023 10:06:16 GMT -5
I haven't been able to shoot a fall bird in good conscience in about 5 years.In fact,this past spring was the first gobbler I killed in a few years.Even though I know the spring harvest has little impact on the overall population,I have to feel good about what I shoot and I just couldn't feel good about killing one.I have no issue with other doing it but I have to feel good about.I feel we're starting to have too many deer and not enough hunters so I do my part and hammer the deer pretty hard.The turkeys had a pretty easy spring and the population looks better but not to the point where I feel the need to manage it.I just like observing turkeys in the fall and while it's fun to work a flock,I won't kill one as an incidental kill.That's just me.Not everyone has to look at it that way.
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