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Dang that is lower than I would expect. Now that I look at harvest reports for Yanahli WMA (12,800 acres) where I hunt, I am seeing very similar numbers of birds harvested each spring season, which suprises me. I thought there would be a lot more... I hear quite a few shots just around the area I hunt and that's one small spot out of almost 13,000 acres. Surprises me that only 60 gobblers would be harvested in the spring from there. Covered up with birds... I wonder how many are poached... I have already taken one from Yanahli and almost got my second yesterday.
 
Seems low to me. I think hunter success rates for turkey are lower than deer but usually around 30%. Id figure most public land would be half or less than that so between 15-10 would be my guess. 3% seems awefully low.
 
I bet it is that low because of the type of hunters like I saw on opening day... walk around with shotguns, a decoy and box call in hand and not see any birds. I had just had 2 or 3 jakes within 10 yards on opening morning, and later on I bumped into two guys walking with said gear and they had not seen anything. I had seen them walking earlier and if I had to guess, I'd say they probably walked the whole time, never set up or bothered using any kind of stealth.

Probably all the people who don't take it seriously enough that bring the success rate down on public land.
 
11 hunts.... dang. I'm on 5 so far for the season and killed one on the 3rd. I hope to kill one every 3 hunts just to be consistent... so I can get one next time I go ;)
 
If I am reading this correct, 404 hunters took 52 birds, that would be about 12.9% success rate on kills. It don't matter if took all season to kill 1 or 1 hr.
404 hunters - 52 birds = 12.9%

If you are figuring success on number of birds taken.

You can't figure success rate on number of days hunted, unless you want to know how many days it took to bag one, & if you got 1 in 10 days, that would still be 10%.

Maybe I'm not understanding it right. I'm probably not! :D
 
Yes, but were those 1532 different hunters? If you want success rate 404 hunters bagged 52 birds.

If 52 hunters hunted 1532 days, and killed 52 birds on say a quota hunt, I would say that they had 100%, (Although it took them a month to do it.. :D )

If you want days of effort until harvest, 1532 days with 52 birds taken is only a 3.4%.

IF they were 1532 hunters, that would be right. But normally I thought you measured success rate by Number of hunters/kills.

I guess you could look at it a lot of different ways.

Not trying to argue, don't take this wrong! :grin:
I was just trying to see how that worked out..
 
Poser said:
catman529 said:
11 hunts.... dang. I'm on 5 so far for the season and killed one on the 3rd. I hope to kill one every 3 hunts just to be consistent... so I can get one next time I go ;)
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Yeah, but you're in Middle Tennessee and, from what I can tell, have the highest concentration of turkey populations in the region.
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Oh yeah... Maury county had the most birds harvested last spring out of any county in Tennessee.
 

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