csmacken
Four Pointer
533 registered killed as of this am! Thats incredible. I remember the days when Caswell hit the 400 mark at the end of the season and no other county was even close.
Thank you a whole lot.You're welcome!
It was so cool helping Mike Seamster, in '90-'94, on Caswell Game Lands, cannon net them and box em up to relocate all over our state, and some were traded to Northern states to expand the gene poole and get winter hardy birds. We even traded some for Ruffed Grouse for release in our mtns.
He also got many from Biltmore Estate properties too.
You're welcome!
It was so cool helping Mike Seamster, in '90-'94, on Caswell Game Lands, cannon net them and box em up to relocate all over our state, and some were traded to Northern states to expand the gene poole and get winter hardy birds. We even traded some for Ruffed Grouse for release in our mtns.
He also got many from Biltmore Estate properties too.
what you talking about. there's one in every other field in the county.Doesnt surprise me much.....there is a pop up blind in the back corner of every collard patch from Chinquapin to Calypso!
you better try it MJ74. while we still have huntable populations.Not a turkey hunter so forgive my ignorance, but I would have never thought 500 was a big number by the amount you see just riding around.
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I've tried it and just wasn't my thing. So are the populations dropping due to over hunting, predators, habitat or all three?you better try it MJ74. while we still have huntable populations.
I was one of those wrong believers also... only started to change my mind when a buddy had a hunt club in Mt Gilead with the thickest cutovers and 5-7yr old pines across the club BUT was slam full of turkeys.One thing I've noticed in the last 10-15 years with the "release" bird re-populations. All of the "experts" from back in the day said that turkeys wouldn't do well in typical thick undergrowth tree farm habitat. We even had biologists come in and look at our 10,000 acre club for a possible restocking program in the early 90's and they told us the habitat wouldn't support turkeys.
Boy were they wrong. They never got restocked in many areas of pine plantations and even as far back as 2000, many experts said if you don't have turkeys now, you probably won't ever have them. Boy were they WRONG on all accounts. There are tons of turkeys thriving in these pine thickets in numbers that easily rival some of the best Roanoke River low grounds there has ever been. Granted pine plantations don't hunt the same as the Tupelo swamps, but the turkeys don't care.
I was one of those wrong believers also... only started to change my mind when a buddy had a hunt club in Mt Gilead with the thickest cutovers and 5-7yr old pines across the club BUT was slam full of turkeys.
I hated hunting them there... no way to get on them except hunt the roads and even then you had to be careful approaching on roost (which were a few tall pines)
the populations arent dropping except thru death by hunting this season.I've tried it and just wasn't my thing. So are the populations dropping due to over hunting, predators, habitat or all three?
From what I see while deer hunting I haven't noticed a difference here.
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Stick with the brim fishing, it's much more pleasurableI just looked it up. Damn if they didn't lay them out around here. Just think if I actually hunted them.
I think alot has to do with the kids being out of school and a lot of work from home gave free time to some.