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[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.

[Steve Hodges]

Ducks are not the point of this discussion.