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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.
 
knightrider":2ygdtt5b said:
the amount of selfishness on this board towards youth hunts never fails to amaze me, no matter if its turkey or deer, why in the he!! do you want to take away extra days for youth to hunt unpressured animals by theirselves!
IMHO I think the Men and Women that truly care about taking there kids do, all season, they don't wait for a special day. I think the special weekend is abused. I take my kids anytime they ask. I haven't been on a hunt with my buddy Gary when he hasn't had one of his kids with him in 5 years.


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Stumbled onto to this article about "house cats"
and believe it's a fitting addition to this thread.

Although house cats mainly target small birds,
the young of any ground-nesting bird qualify as "small".

So it may be the common house cat is a bigger threat to young quail and turkey
than many other predators?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cats-invas ... originals/

Domestic cats are directly responsible for the extinction of a number of animal species around the world, including 33 bird species.
In the U.S., the popular pet is estimated to kill over 1 billion birds and over 6 billion other small animals every year.
 

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