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    What are you guys seeing? Total #s are down around these parts but with the lack of habitat, I’m surprised any birds remain.

    https://www.postandcourier.com/sport...6f6e62624.html
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    Does that mean the overall average poult survival rate was 2 per hen? My winter flocks are larger than normal. The dry spring most likely helped recruitment.

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    That’s the way I read it. I’m not seeing the gobblers like I used to. A fair amount of hens. 1 longbeard has been with the same 6 hens all winter. I get pics of them almost daily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by joshua2 View Post
    That’s the way I read it. I’m not seeing the gobblers like I used to. A fair amount of hens. 1 longbeard has been with the same 6 hens all winter. I get pics of them almost daily.
    Quit shooting all of them.
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    I’ve seen more birds this year and last year than I have in a while. I have a self imposed limit of one gobbler per property max and trap as many coons and opossums as I can.

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    Somebody killing them for sure. Just not me
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coastal Woodie View Post
    I’ve seen more birds this year and last year than I have in a while. I have a self imposed limit of one gobbler per property max and trap as many coons and opossums as I can.
    Same here. Even if it’s game land, my buddies and I try to keep it at 1 per tract. I hate I missed the days when we actually had turkeys. I didn’t start until I was 34 years old


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    Seen more poults this year than I have in the last 15. They are everywhere. Looks to be a fair amount of carryover from last year as well. Looks like a good crop of 2 year old gobblers. This is in Charleston and Berkeley counties.

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    Maybe the changes actually helped.

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    I did not see as many poults as I normally do so this is good news.
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    We had a good amount of poults this year near my lease but they were all most all hens

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    I've got a new to me place to hunt and have it loaded with cameras since June'ish. Sometime late summer I got my first picture of a gobbler and he was probably the biggest turkey I'd ever seen. That was the only picture I ever go of him. Through the fall and as late as last week when I pulled all the cameras, on a regular basis I have a group (most I've counted was 33) of all hens. They come to the same field several times a week. 30+ birds and no dudes in the bunch.

    Do we ever get to the point were we have a fall season with a hen tag?

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    Hens lay the eggs. One Gobbler can fertilize a bunch of them. Dead hens don't lay eggs. Yall wannabe hen shooters remember that.
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    You’ll never see a hen season in SC again.

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    And why would you even want to?

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    How many stands and cameras were stolen during this "survey"?

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    And what he said.

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    We kill female everything else. Maybe we stop killing hen ducks all together too? I could care less either way…

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coastal Woodie View Post
    I’ve seen more birds this year and last year than I have in a while. I have a self imposed limit of one gobbler per property max and trap as many coons and opossums as I can.
    Might want to add great horned owls to your list. Read they were pretty tough on them also.
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    I dont know how it was done. For all I know that weird bastard that determined it's gender licked it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reeltight View Post
    We kill female everything else. Maybe we stop killing hen ducks all together too? I could care less either way…
    Back in the day I hunted more than one place where dead hen ducks cost you $10.00 each. The money was sent to Delta Waterfowl at the end of the season.
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