Summary of the southern middle counties.

[Tennrock]

Re: Summary of the southern middle counties.

You may be on to something. I'm just North of middle Wayne. We saw a reduction 3 years ago. From what I have seen this deer season, they have rebounded some. We had someone do some trapping last year catching 2 bobcats and 8-9 coyotes. We have no hogs and I only 2 chicken houses in a 20 mile radius, all South of me.
With such a drastic line between good & bad, they should be able to figure this out.

Im in southern wayne co. Right on the alabama state line. We went from awesome to awful in a hurry. And you name we have it when it comes to bad for turkeys. Number 1 there is a chicken house every 100 ft. Number 2 covered up in hoggs. Number 3 hundreds of acres of forest land being turned into crop land. Number 3 more hawks ,coons, bobcats, fox, coyotes than turkeys now. Number 4 , our county has as many out of state as in state hunters and we have alot of in state. Number 5 is overkill ,high limits with declineing birds since 07. So my theory on turkeys is the combo effect.

 

[ImThere]

Re: Summary of the southern middle counties.

Look at the huge harvest numbers to our North in Maury county. It's like now the turkeys just live there.

Maury is in decline. Don't let the numbers fool you. You used to be able to see a gobbler in every field and even crapy turkey hunters like me used to kill them. Not so much the last 3 years.


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[catman529]

Re: Summary of the southern middle counties.

Look at the huge harvest numbers to our North in Maury county. It's like now the turkeys just live there.

Maury is in decline. Don't let the numbers fool you. You used to be able to see a gobbler in every field and even crapy turkey hunters like me used to kill them. Not so much the last 3 years.


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they're still there, just been quiet the past couple seasons. I still see the numbers in winter flocks. It may have come down a little from what it used to be but as long as it levels out and doesn't keep going down. The quiet springs I think help save a few birds since people have more trouble finding em.


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[ImThere]

Re: Summary of the southern middle counties.

Look at the huge harvest numbers to our North in Maury county. It's like now the turkeys just live there.

Maury is in decline. Don't let the numbers fool you. You used to be able to see a gobbler in every field and even crapy turkey hunters like me used to kill them. Not so much the last 3 years.


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they're still there, just been quiet the past couple seasons. I still see the numbers in winter flocks. It may have come down a little from what it used to be but as long as it levels out and doesn't keep going down. The quiet springs I think help save a few birds since people have more trouble finding em.


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It you would have seen them 7 or 8 years ago you would agree.


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[tree_ghost]

Re: Summary of the southern middle counties.

I agree that in Rutherford Co over the last three years I have seen a slow decline in turkey numbers in the spring time. The winter flocks have pretty much been 80-100 hens and 8-15 toms steadily over those years. However this last summer I seen the best poult recruitment since I've been in Middle TN (3years). I'm interested to see how spring goes...


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