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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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from Elmer Fudd wrote 6 weeks 3 days ago

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

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from turk wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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.

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from Beekeeper wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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.

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from gman3186 wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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

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from turk wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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.

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from Beekeeper wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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.

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from gman3186 wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago

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

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from Elmer Fudd wrote 6 weeks 3 days ago

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

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