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[Mike Franzen]

I hear that. I’m a believer in use enough gun

[Steve Hodges]

Ok guys, grouse or Moose do not eat turkeys. Nor do turkeys eat grouse, LOL !!Predators such as bobcats or coyotes do not material effect turkey populations. Birds this spring are down because of recruitment of poults last spring. Very wet and cold and a lot of poult die off. They will be back next year if we do not have a cold wet spring and early summer. Our NH turkey kill will be weighted to mature birds due to this.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

Ok guys, grouse or Moose do not eat turkeys. Nor do turkeys eat grouse, LOL !!Predators such as bobcats or coyotes do not material effect turkey populations. Birds this spring are down because of recruitment of poults last spring. Very wet and cold and a lot of poult die off. They will be back next year if we do not have a cold wet spring and early summer. Our NH turkey kill will be weighted to mature birds due to this.

A bad hatch last spring wouldn't have reduced the population of Toms and mature hens this Spring. It takes two years or more for a male poult to become a mature Tom.

[Steve Hodges]

Pete, you misunderstood the point. The reduced recement of poults in last springs young would reflect in this years total jake population. So this years kill figures will be weighted with older birds and not so many jakes. Pretty simple to understand.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

Pete, you misunderstood the point. The reduced recement of poults in last springs young would reflect in this years total jake population. So this years kill figures will be weighted with older birds and not so many jakes. Pretty simple to understand.

I understand that, but what people have been reporting is an overall lack of birds, not just sightings but birds responding with a gobble from the roost in the early morning. I think the population is down and most likely multiple factors are to blame.

[Steve Hodges]

Armchair biologists. I have killed 5 birds in 5 hunts. Nothing wrong with the population of birds in my area. Folks that do not know how to hunt will blame anything but themselves for failure. I do predict a slight reduction in the total turkey kill, with more mature toms in the population of the kill. Take a good spring and all will be good next year.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

Armchair biologists. I have killed 5 birds in 5 hunts. Nothing wrong with the population of birds in my area. Folks that do not know how to hunt will blame anything but themselves for failure. I do predict a slight reduction in the total turkey kill, with more mature toms in the population of the kill. Take a good spring and all will be good next year.

Those professional biologists are doing a swell job for us with the ducks.