too much!

you can cook meat, then make jerky. I think I would with bear.

>we will all experience ups and downs. Clearly Arkansas is experiencing a "down" period but this has to be over-reacting. If there is a concern, it can be handled in these ways: *no archery season, or a very short one. *shorter fall season *no overlap between deer and turkey seasons [this is possible in Virginia anyway]... many a deer hunter only shoots turkeys in the fall while deer hunting as an unexpected opportunity thing. *if you shoot a hen in the fall, you may shoot no more turkeys including in the upcoming Spring season. YES it is possible to identify sexes by sight in the fall, takes experience. more extreme: *very short fall gun season even more extreme: *allow no dogs almost unthinkable: *closed fall season in a state that actually still has plenty of turkeys. We aren't talking about endgangered or even threatened species here!!! ultimate solution: *bum out all the hunters, we are a bunch of old graybeards for the most part and the younger generation seeing all the closed seasons will just give up hunting. Of course eventually there will be no wildlife areas and the turkeys will then become threatened sure enough.

stalking is too dangerous, I'm pretty sure that is how the kid got shot in Vermont.