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Turkey time!
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And if no one hears from the turkeys after next week? 
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Spring gobbler season is coming in here too. I usually don't go cause they are just building up here, but my dad comes down here and hunts and got a huge gobbler last year.
It's cool. When I was a kid and even up to high school you went to the big mountains to hunt deer and turkey. Now they are everywhere round here. That's at least one environmental success.
It's cool. When I was a kid and even up to high school you went to the big mountains to hunt deer and turkey. Now they are everywhere round here. That's at least one environmental success.
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thombrogan said:And if no one hears from the turkeys after next week?
We'd have to suspect fowl play.
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Well, if removing the wolves as common predators is a success...
Indiana grows big deer becuz there are no predators (cept a few wiley hunters)...
Keith
Indiana grows big deer becuz there are no predators (cept a few wiley hunters)...
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Good luck and have fun.
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Yum!
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Ferrous Wheel said:
Actually in WV the deer herd was down to a very few in one area around the turn of the century. This was due to overhunting and people's dogs running loose.
We don't have any wolves here but we got a lot of coyotes.
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Originally Posted by Ferrous Wheel
Well, if removing the wolves as common predators is a success...
Indiana grows big deer becuz there are no predators (cept a few wiley hunters)...
Keith
I hear ya, Keith. The deer in this part of the state are super-sized as well. i had a young buck dart in front of my Jeep Wrangler with the doors and top off a few years back and almost say "hello" to my wife-to-be in the passenger seat. The thing looked about the size of a Harley Davidson! They actually had to have an organized thinning of the deer population in one of the state parks down here because the poor critters were starving to death. Its too bad there aren't more predators in the area. I'm all for hunting, but something doesnt sit right with me when we have to send in 40 or 50 guys to blast weak starving deer where they sit for 8 hours straight. kinda takes the sport out of it.
~Jake
Well, if removing the wolves as common predators is a success...
Indiana grows big deer becuz there are no predators (cept a few wiley hunters)...
Keith
I hear ya, Keith. The deer in this part of the state are super-sized as well. i had a young buck dart in front of my Jeep Wrangler with the doors and top off a few years back and almost say "hello" to my wife-to-be in the passenger seat. The thing looked about the size of a Harley Davidson! They actually had to have an organized thinning of the deer population in one of the state parks down here because the poor critters were starving to death. Its too bad there aren't more predators in the area. I'm all for hunting, but something doesnt sit right with me when we have to send in 40 or 50 guys to blast weak starving deer where they sit for 8 hours straight. kinda takes the sport out of it.
~Jake
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where's Rusty?
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I've never hunted turkey, but back in school had to do a few population surveys. Zaleski State Forest and Wayne National Forest in SE Ohio were thick with 'em. I recall following st.rt. 278 and counting up to five gobblers per quarter mile.
Also worked a check-in station a couple of times up towards Columbus. The smallest I remember was a scrwany 11lbs. the biggest was 43! I'd like to try it sometime, but I have ZERO calling skills. :footinmou
The population boom in deer is actually more attributable to the elimination of bison than of predators. The bison used to keep a lot of what is now forest trampled and grazed down to prairie. When they were gone, the prairie grew into habitat for the deer, and brother did they move in.
Also worked a check-in station a couple of times up towards Columbus. The smallest I remember was a scrwany 11lbs. the biggest was 43! I'd like to try it sometime, but I have ZERO calling skills. :footinmou
The population boom in deer is actually more attributable to the elimination of bison than of predators. The bison used to keep a lot of what is now forest trampled and grazed down to prairie. When they were gone, the prairie grew into habitat for the deer, and brother did they move in.