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NCWRC just released harvest data for 2021. Pretty good numbers showing the benefit of waiting until April go go after ‘em. Lots of factors, of course, but trending up is trending up.
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NCWRC just released harvest data for 2021. Pretty good numbers showing the benefit of waiting until April go go after ‘em. Lots of factors, of course, but trending up is trending up.
Eastern NC has 2.7 asses of turkeys
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So you’re saying no one uses turkey decoys in SC? NC numbers are trending up and the rest of the southeast is going down. The only difference is we don’t start season until April.
This chart is not accurate of the turkey numbers in NC, some areas of the state are just beginning to get turkeys. In most areas of the state that turkeys have populated for 20 years or more numbers are stable to down. Number one cause hunters and that is a fact.
The only thing that graph is good for is telling you hunters are killing more turkeys every year. In a nutshell, that graph does nothing to show overall population growth or decline, health, etc.
I bet if SC made a like chart it would show the same trend, but doesn’t give you any helpful information on the status of the resource or anything else other than more turkeys died. If there were 10 total hunters in 1970 that killed 100 total birds and 200 total hunters in 2021 that killed 150 total birds, is that still an upward trend?????
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Last edited by TXFowler; 06-04-2021 at 07:15 PM.
Let me let you in on a little secret. That is just reported numbers.
Think how many don't get reported.
If the numbers are going up or sustaining, wouldn’t that indicate the population is stable? If the turkeys are in a severe decline in numbers, wouldn’t the trend in harvest go the other way?
Last edited by joshua2; 06-04-2021 at 07:42 PM.
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The state biologist actually have a metric to measure unreported kills. It’s included in the full end of year report. The report says different, but I’d say less than 2% of turkeys go unreported. Most of that crowd cant wait to flex their kill on Instagram, so they get caught pretty easy. The rest get snitched on by other hunters.
That’s the way I’m taking it, josh. Hard to kill a bird that isn’t there.
Last edited by wiz18; 06-04-2021 at 08:13 PM.
Damn you have to report a kill? I killed a owl the other day with hummer. It was stuck in the grill
And a large portion of the NC boys are in SC on March 15 killing a bird because their season “ starts too late”. Want to have more turkeys? Kill less. They have a shorter season and can only kill 2 birds. Kill less and you won’t have to lay awake at night worrying about how other folks are killing turkeys.
Damn we catch all the flounder and kill all the turkeys.
NC Harvest: 21K
SC Harvest: 9k
But Bo, they aint got em in NC like we do here, they just have more hunters. Oh yeah, and decoys
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While I don't mind shooting 2 or even 1 turkey a year if it saves the bird, I find it total bullshit everyone has to suffer so Joe Blow can sit in his pop up tent and shoot turkeys over full strut decoys. I pray to God that Alabama's population begins to rise again so it can be proven once in for all how bad male decoys are for the population. That is all
I won’t disagree that male decoys allow guys some trigger time that normally wouldn’t ever come within rifle range of a bird. No arguing there. I honestly feel that the pop-up blind on a field edge with a strutter crowd is a lot smaller percentage of the total number of hunters than we make it out to be. Outside of a few guys with young kids I know no one that hunts that way. It’s boring. The larger majority, even the decoy toters are still walking around chasing gobbles and getting hunts spoiled by walking when you should be sitting. Another thing to consider is how we are losing fields. All the guys I know are hunting on timber land, so a road or landing deck is going to be the largest opening. It’s just getting harder to set up and pull a bird from 300y across a green field, because that field now has pines.
Just my observations. Your mileage may vary. I think opening the season in April will do more good than banning male decoys. I’m afraid we will need both if the trend continues.
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