lasttombstone
Kinder, Gentler LTS
Figured someone needed to get this started early and it may as well be me. Is the Corvid-19 virus be the demise of the NC turkey population? The numbers are impressive already and I can only guess that they will continue to grow.
This years youth season accounted for nearly double the previous year's kill. I failed to write the numers down late Friday night but best i can remember the count this year was around 2400+ and last year's count was around 1200+.
As of right now, the count is 6653 which accounts for around 4000 kills since yesterday morning, assuming all the youth kills got reported prior to Sat. morning. That is up roughly 1700 from the 3 year average. If you figure in that the youth count was up 1200 for a week, then the opening day kill is up around 500 birds for opening day. I know I'm close but please, don't anyone hold me to the math. I was never too good at it.
All the kids are out of school so youth season gets maximized. A lot of adults are out of work so many more will be in the woods than normal. All that extra time means more opportunity for folks to tag out and novice hunters will get more time and exposure which means more opportunity.
Anyone want to take a guess at the number at the end of the season? Last year it was 16,119.. In 2017 the number was 16,572.
This years youth season accounted for nearly double the previous year's kill. I failed to write the numers down late Friday night but best i can remember the count this year was around 2400+ and last year's count was around 1200+.
As of right now, the count is 6653 which accounts for around 4000 kills since yesterday morning, assuming all the youth kills got reported prior to Sat. morning. That is up roughly 1700 from the 3 year average. If you figure in that the youth count was up 1200 for a week, then the opening day kill is up around 500 birds for opening day. I know I'm close but please, don't anyone hold me to the math. I was never too good at it.
All the kids are out of school so youth season gets maximized. A lot of adults are out of work so many more will be in the woods than normal. All that extra time means more opportunity for folks to tag out and novice hunters will get more time and exposure which means more opportunity.
Anyone want to take a guess at the number at the end of the season? Last year it was 16,119.. In 2017 the number was 16,572.