You have to be smarter than the turkey! LOL

Walt Smith,
Or tree stands haha

mtnhunter, after the last couple turkey seasons, i'm not so sure i am smarter than the turkey.

When the birds outsmart me, like they did this weekend, I blame it on hunter safety--my hunt was safe--for the turkeys. I might be taking hunter safety a little too far.

Interesting survey answers here. I was surprised how many people think turkey hunters are better educated than deer hunters. Maybe this is just my experience, but when I'm out deer hunting, I see more turkeys than deer. There are days where I can't seem to get away from them. I'm sure the day I finally managed to draw a turkey tag (we have a lottery system where I live) the two will flip-flop and I'll be overrun with deer without a turkey in sight but for now I see the whitetail as the more elusive animal.

hey bell, quit telling us what to do. There is almost NO public hunting land around in Florida. Also, Florida has zones with each zone having different seasons. So why don't you pay for us?

The first two things that come to mind while reading the responses are...

We do not know what the answers are so people can't know how many they missed.

It doesn't ask if turkeys are smarter than deer or if you have to be smarter than a turkey to hunt them.

I think most believe bird hunters are well healed and therefore smarter. Doesn't mean that it is true, it simply means those who write about bird hunters are better at portraying themselves as more sophisticated.
:)

Beekeeper, from what I seen in Florida you have to pay farmers big money in order to hunt for the pest on their land. While pigs are everywhere down here the places to hunt them on public land is limited. Not to mention the hunting system down here is confusing.

So only people willing to pay over $200 a pig can hunt them from what I have found. That equals me not getting to try to get one yet =(

I grew up in Central Florida and I can tell you getting permission to hunt private land is nearly impossible there. It's either public land or pay for a lease. I do have an uncle that will let me hunt hogs, deer and turkeys on his cattle ranch. Hogs are considered shoot on sight pests. But why leave a state (Kansas) that is crawling with turkeys and much bigger deer to go to Florida to hunt? Except for the Oceola turkey that makes no sense to me.

Walt Smith,
Are you saying you'd share a blind with your wife if she went hunting? I thought the reason guys went hunting was to get away from the wife!

Spartan,

I feel for you. Georgia is rapidly going the same direction. We have a great many people who come here from Florida and NC to lease hunting land or hunt in our National forest areas and WMA's.

Farmers are facing reduced profit margins and in a state like Florida with limited access and many people with excess dispensible income pay hunts offer a chance to help pay the bills. There will always be a few who are willing to pay more than the next guy, unfortunately those folks keep the rest of us fellows on a hotdog budget on the other side of the fence too frequently.

ATTTION ALL YOUTHS:Deer Turkey perimts are on 5$ ya thats right 5$ per permit 1 either and 1 doe and you can get up to 3 turkey permits. Geuss where.............. NEBRASKA Resident OR Nonresident youths only. I bet you will be surprised with the #'s on the quiz

Those were pretty simple questions and most of them common sense.

Quit complaining, either pay or hunt on public land.