stik
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TLRanger":2viahs44 said:
why? because more people are off on the weekend.
Turkey season opening day
- Thread starter TLRanger
- Start date
why? because more people are off on the weekend.
I think our turkey opener needs to be about 1-2 weeks earlier than it is now. Take a week or so away from May and give it to March. Most of the years, the weather gets warm in early March and the breeding starts way before the season opens. Therefore, most of the breeding is over by the end of April and May ends up being more for the ticks and hot weather than the turkeys.
You can stay home in late April and all of May. Just send me your turkey spot addresses. :tu: :moon:Coker":17pdz8un said:
Haven't seen many warm March days yet... Just got 15" of snow as a matter of fact...
Coker":1lexw1fn said:
That's the actually point of the season. You ideally want season to start when breeding is already in full swing to ensure the population the next season. To add to that from a hunting stand point the best time to hunt is AFTER the hens are bread anyways.
You do not want to start the season prior to breeding from a biological standpoint
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You can have my spots in May. By that time, the turkeys are not gobbling and have not interest in hens.Gravey":19ajw3uj said:
I dont want to start the season before breeding starts, I want to start the season shortly after the breeding starts. Generally, the breeding starts in Middle March. I would love for the season to always start on the 3rd Saturday in March. From a biological standpoint, hens will get bred no matter if its before or during hunting season.REN":19ajw3uj said:
not if the gobblers get killed first... There have been many times I have been able to call gobblers away from un-receptive hens last of March first of April.. I don't think the season should start any earlier last Saturday in March.
Coker":2bh31k6c said:
not if there are not any toms, again the point is to start the season after the toms have had a chance to breed a lot of hens so once you remove the toms from the area you will have hens that will nest and produce poults for the following year. You start removing the toms prior to hens really getting breed then you will whip out the population and a very small amount of time.
Yall must have a very small Tom population. At 4 toms per person per year, I can't put a dent in my population.
you say that, move the season up before breeding is really going and see how big it is in a few years. its pretty simple math actually, Biologist do actually know some things.
SKFOOTER
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Consider yourself fortunate. But I speak from personal experience, that won't last.Coker":1m3jh31s said:
I never said to move the season to start before breeding. I would like the season to start the 3rd Saturday in March. Even if it did open the 3rd Saturday in March, there are plenty of hens being bred before then.REN":2y1c4vri said:
I would like last Saturday in March.
BILLBENDER
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I'm not sure why so many worry so much about start dates. Just go hunt when it's open. I have had a ton of success in may when apparently they are not receptive. You can kill at any point during the season you just got to find the tight one. Only thing that sucks about this yr is that being a teacher I generally get to hunt good Friday but I will be out trying to pinpoint one for the following morning.
Coker":1nb98y6v said:
and you know this how? just a question and maybe you do know somehow but you have to make the entire state into account not just your spot to hunt. breeding season is different from the top of the state to the bottom and even a week can make a very big different.
in years where spring is late like last year you have breeding season starting a tad late and in years where it is way early like 3 years ago then breeding starts early. the idea is to find the best time frame on average that works for the entire state. you move it up a week like you are suggesting then you move up juvenile a week as well and now lots of birds are dying in early march.
stik":1qtlf4by said:
This^^^^
arkwaterfowler
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I like it just the way it is and think it is well thought out. I hunt Montgomery County and usually witness large groups of toms the juvenile weekend and two weeks later they are broken up into small groups. The best turkey hunting in that area is around April 10 in my opinion.
muddyboots":1bh3aagm said:
You wouldn't like it if it opened earlier. I hunt both AL and TN, and AL season opening mid March is way too early, some years they are barely gobbling yet and usually still in big flocks during this time, at least in north AL. I wished AL season opened the same as TN and went into May as TN season does. I usually don't even go in AL till after April 1 cause it usually is so slow and since it shuts down April 30th, season closes about the time things get heated up. I have killed a lot of birds those last weeks at the end of April and beginning of May. Just my 2c
woodsman87
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I like the way it opens, as I do Alabama's.
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it opens early in alabama because breeding starts earlier there due to the length of day getting longer there...same reason FL starts even earlier, the most south you go the earlier breeding starts, the more north the later it is. again there is a method to the madness
