megalomaniac":15fvoch7 said:we are digressing, but I'm actually ambivalent regarding juvie season for turkeys. I'm about as staunch an advocate for juvie season for deer, simply because my little 10 y/o girl cannot shoot a ML, and that's the only weekend she can hunt deer in the prerut and before most of the older deer have been killed. By the time rifle season opens, most of the bigger deer have already been killed.
For turkeys, the hunting seems to get better as the season progresses. When I took her this year in TN, I didn't carry a gun. We had an understanding that if multiple birds came in, she would shoot one, and he was flopping, she would pass me the gun and I'll call the others back in and I'd take one. I've done the juvie hunt with my son in the past, and the toms are still flocked up and hard to kill without strutter decoys on my properties. Now I'd love if they closed the season to adults mid April and gave a weekend just to juvies, but it seems for both deer and turkeys, the kids get the worst weekends of the entire season. What does that say?
It says that dad's love giving their kids "time" to hunt, but only at the worst of times to hunt instead of good times. Try making the deer youth season around November 11th and you'll see true colors IMO.
Take kids all season.