Previously shot birds?

[TheLBLman]

Andy, my thinking is we have been progressively killing a higher percentage of the living male population each year.
It finally got to the point of adversely effecting breeding success when too many older Toms were being killed too early.

In other words, our kill rate was rising faster than the populations,
and the old "harvest models" were misleading the data analysts.

Probably hit the tipping point about the same time the bag limit was raised from 3 to 4 birds.

 

[megalomaniac]

Exactly right LBL.

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[Uncle Jesse]

Never noticed it on a turkey but, the biggest buck I killed had a broad head and lots of bird shot in him

 

[Setterman]

Never noticed it on a turkey but, the biggest buck I killed had a broad head and lots of bird shot in him

Dang, that dude was a warrior

 

[Uncle Jesse]

He was. I killed him on private land but it was less than a mile from AEDC. I always figured he ran through the dove field when they had it at the checking station. That was 1995

 

[elknturkey]

One area I use to hunt it seemed every bird I killed had somebody's pellets in it. I watched my buddy "miss" one one morning and I went back the next and killed him. He didn't miss. Killed an elk that had a broadhead in it from the previous year. My last Virginia bird last year had been shot that season. It's a hard hunted section that I normally don't go to cause of easy access and pressure but couldn't find birds anywhere else.