Harvest report

[THE DUKE]

Where I'm @ in wilson co the 5yr downward trend continues, I did get one last sun @ mid-day. Numbers here are pitiful compared to 5-6 yrs ago. There still flocked up right now where I hunt.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I had the opposite experience. Ive never seen as many NR plates in my public land jaunts as in 2020. Traveling hunters that usually hit up KY public lands seemed to find their way to Cheatham and the TN side of LBL.

Same here. There were more Missouri plates than TN plates in Yahnali last year.

 

[PossumSlayer]

Where I'm @ in wilson co the 5yr downward trend continues, I did get one last sun @ mid-day. Numbers here are pitiful compared to 5-6 yrs ago. There still flocked up right now where I hunt.

Do you still see or hear of the same amount of hunters or have a lot given up and found another county?

 

[Southern Sportsman]

You do realize part of the state is not even allowed to hunt yet? Might have something to do with the numbers being down a little. Also I imagine that most people are back at work and not covid hunting like last year. Remember we set a state record last year at over 40,000 birds.

Agreed. The population is down overall, no doubt. But comparing a week's worth of harvest numbers this year to last year is not apples to apples.

 

[TheLBLman]

There were more Missouri plates than TN plates in Yahnali last year.

I don't doubt that.
But in the areas I most turkey hunt near the TN-KY line, it is mainly KY non-resident hunters hunting those TN counties. Last year, the democratic governor threatened them with a quarantine if they got caught coming back from TN turkey hunting.

 

[THE DUKE]

Do you still see or hear of the same amount of hunters or have a lot given up and found another county?
[/QUOT there's still people hunting here, I've got farms on my Rd that no one can hunt always have had 100-200 birds in several fields combined now lucky to see 10-12.