H4820 Turkey Bill, Senate Subcommitte next Thursday.....

[quackaddict]

So is there a point in emailing the committee again at this point?


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[ccleroy]

You could tell SC legislators that another state had the cure for cancer and they'd legislate leeches. SC is gonna SC regardless of data.

Yep

[Glenn]

So is there a point in emailing the committee again at this point?


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I don't know that there was a point in emailing them to begin with. I think they print them out and when the D's and the R's get together for their end of session blow out party they read them aloud and laugh through their cigars.

[cat III]

Mold on old corn in corn piles is killing the birds. There it is run with it.

[2thDoc]

So is there a point in emailing the committee again at this point?


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[fro]

that’s a strong statement.

Ive accidentally killed 5-6 jake’s over the last 30 years and im sure ill kill another one.

You remember that one I shot with Rayzor on the lake in flip flops? It weighed about 12 lbs. Slipped in silent behind me. All I saw was a lit up head while I was looking through the corner of my skull. I was damn proud of that bird and as I remember it taste fantastic to a few broke as college kids who could barely afford the grease to fry it in!

That wasn't my last, but my intentional last....

[cajunwannabe]

Mold on old corn in corn piles is killing the birds. There it is run with it.

Most folks can't kill a deer without a corn pile.

Legalized statewide baiting seems to have led to the decline in the Upstate for sure.

[M2Field]

Mold on old corn in corn piles is killing the birds. There it is run with it.

Must be a lot of those corn piles in the Francis Marion I haven't come across yet.

[Duckman#1]

Must be a lot of those corn piles in the Francis Marion I haven't come across yet.

Yeah Texas should have been out of turkeys 30 years ago

[cajunwannabe]

Must be a lot of those corn piles in the Francis Marion I haven't come across yet.

The government folks at FMF burn our turkeys

[centurian]

Well would it be better for turkeys to fill your tags with jakes rather than mature birds? I thought the whole point of changing regulations was to retain mature birds for breeding. Ga needs to be brave and do the right thing but they are not. Increase the population by cutting the harvest rates. It is that simple. 1 tag per hunter and you cant hunt, guide, or call unless you have a tag in your pocket.

[raybird]

You remember that one I shot with Rayzor on the lake in flip flops? It weighed about 12 lbs. Slipped in silent behind me. All I saw was a lit up head while I was looking through the corner of my skull. I was damn proud of that bird and as I remember it taste fantastic to a few broke as college kids who could barely afford the grease to fry it in!

That wasn't my last, but my intentional last....

hell yea! still one of the smallest jake’s i ever seen…it probably wasn’t going to make it anyway.

Tasted great!

[usrgce]

Must be a lot of those corn piles in the Francis Marion I haven't come across yet.

More out there than you would believe.

[Duckman#1]

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[M2Field]

More out there than you would believe.

Where they at? I've hunted the FM for two decades in all units. Never seen the first kernel.

I did see a guy carrying a bag of live oak acorns he had raked up one time.

[Catdaddy]

Yeah Texas should have been out of turkeys 30 years ago

Texas and most Midwest corn is free from Aflatoxins. The South East is not.




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[aquaman]

So who were the ones in the legislature that came up with the changes?

[davisd9]

It’s disappointing they did not listen to biologists on pushing the season back so the birds can breed before being hunted. Other states have done this and been successful.

Not shooting jakes is a distraction that can be called a compromise from what needed to be done.


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There is also a study in Tenn that says moving the dates back has little to no effect. Louisiana seems to be coming back with the season moved back. I think the season needs to be moved back from March 22 but I did not agree with April 10 in the lower part of the state. I am no biologist but when the season started April 1 I heard lots of gobbling and saw plenty birds. Now if they would stop full strut decoys.

[JABIII]

So is there a point in emailing the committee again at this point?

[raybird]

Texas and most Midwest corn is free from Aflatoxins. The South East is not.




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alfatoxin poison is kinda like HIV, The aflatoxin poison doesn’t actually kill the birds. it’s the secondary infection due to lack of immune system is what actually kills them. A spur wound or 2-3 pellets beciomes deadly with aflatoxin poisons present.

all those corn ponds in the south, loaded with aflatoxins y’all are feeding the ducks too!

Bottom line- hunters are killing too many turkeys