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Big O has got me thinking about my younger days in Arkansas where I grew up. When I was first hunting, there were no deer anywhere near where I lived, and it was said they nearly got wiped out early 1900's. And turkeys, there were none in the state at all I think, but by the time I was an older teenager the Game and Fish trapping and relocating was working miracles and I actually started hunting them there. After I moved away, I began to hear just how good the hunting got for turkeys. I can't find a ranking right now, but I have heard that Arkansas got to be third in total turkeys just behind Alabama and Georgia. Bearing in mind that game management is to be credited for this wonderful development, has Ark. Game and Fish gone loco? [continuation in first comment]
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you have to see Big O's post and you can comment there. Is the future of game management going to have folks in it trying to... I dunno what they are trying to do. Surely not stop hunting, but...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/forums/hunting/fall-turkey-season
I have read where Arkansas has had some good conservation efforts on there wildlife iam from Alabama and over the past decade the turkey here are like the hogs in Texas they are just everywhere and the hunting has got ausome and getting better every year good conservation is what it takes you know not to change the subject but let the anti hunters chew on that i mean who brought the wild turkey back in the united states thats rite we did the real conservationist the hunters of this great nation.
I am afraid we will run into more and more of these decisions as we move forward. The anti/green/hairyleged/hugger crowd will continue to foster challenges to our laws and rules and planning processes. One of the big issues is the trend of such "wildlife defenders" to challenge the method of data analysis and/or capture used to set seasons and bag limits. These legal challenges can tie the hands of our DNR agencies. My state has gone to an every other year process in setting seasons so that they have an open year to answer such challenges and not impact season starts and bag limits.
virginia has tons of turkeys but not alot of people hunt them. i dont go out to hunt just turkey there is a time when deer season and turkey season overlap and i will take a turkey then but i dont hunt during spring turkey season but i have seen flocks of 50 plus out here and that is pretty common
I dunno, but if they have as many turkeys and deer as Alabama, then somebody is doing something right. You can go out into the woods in certain parts of Alabama, and it is guaranteed that you will get a fine buck. There are so many turkeys that I used to see them standing right next to the road on the way home. Could have got one with a golf club. Nobody in that neighborhood hunted them and didn't consider them to be food because nobody had hunted them for so long. The Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes there are a nuisance. Stories abound of hunters who awakened to find a smiling rattler coiled up in their laps. I saw an actual photo of one that two people were holding up by the head, over their heads. The snake stretched out at least six more feet in front of them. Just like the gators that the truckers see in Alligator Alley in Florida.
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I have read where Arkansas has had some good conservation efforts on there wildlife iam from Alabama and over the past decade the turkey here are like the hogs in Texas they are just everywhere and the hunting has got ausome and getting better every year good conservation is what it takes you know not to change the subject but let the anti hunters chew on that i mean who brought the wild turkey back in the united states thats rite we did the real conservationist the hunters of this great nation.
I am afraid we will run into more and more of these decisions as we move forward. The anti/green/hairyleged/hugger crowd will continue to foster challenges to our laws and rules and planning processes. One of the big issues is the trend of such "wildlife defenders" to challenge the method of data analysis and/or capture used to set seasons and bag limits. These legal challenges can tie the hands of our DNR agencies. My state has gone to an every other year process in setting seasons so that they have an open year to answer such challenges and not impact season starts and bag limits.
virginia has tons of turkeys but not alot of people hunt them. i dont go out to hunt just turkey there is a time when deer season and turkey season overlap and i will take a turkey then but i dont hunt during spring turkey season but i have seen flocks of 50 plus out here and that is pretty common
you have to see Big O's post and you can comment there. Is the future of game management going to have folks in it trying to... I dunno what they are trying to do. Surely not stop hunting, but...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/forums/hunting/fall-turkey-season
I dunno, but if they have as many turkeys and deer as Alabama, then somebody is doing something right. You can go out into the woods in certain parts of Alabama, and it is guaranteed that you will get a fine buck. There are so many turkeys that I used to see them standing right next to the road on the way home. Could have got one with a golf club. Nobody in that neighborhood hunted them and didn't consider them to be food because nobody had hunted them for so long. The Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes there are a nuisance. Stories abound of hunters who awakened to find a smiling rattler coiled up in their laps. I saw an actual photo of one that two people were holding up by the head, over their heads. The snake stretched out at least six more feet in front of them. Just like the gators that the truckers see in Alligator Alley in Florida.
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