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Post by featherduster on Apr 3, 2011 5:32:15 GMT -5
regarding Gobblerstopper's comments.
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Post by drs on Apr 3, 2011 6:00:51 GMT -5
Second, Indiana would benefit with two zones, and have the south zone opening about a week earlier. It's a lot more fun when they gobble more and the peak of the gobbling will be long past by the 27th. Call me selfish, but I don't want to see Indiana go to two zones. Although beneficial, I dont want to see the northern half of the state flock to the south for an early season. The same as I'm sure they would feel if it were the other way around. I agree with Tom (Timex) on the two zone idea. Indiana is a longer state (North & South) than East & West.
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Post by hornharvester on Apr 3, 2011 9:50:35 GMT -5
Ive also stated Indiana should look at having two zones. They do it for waterfowl, why not turkey? I live up north and my weather is 2 weeks later in temps than the southern part. A few years ago I was hunting turkeys the second week and it sleeted on me 4 times in one day, weather was very cold.
Im sure there would be some that do go south for the opener but those that hunt private land up here would still do so. With a one spring gobbler limit i just don't see flocks of people heading south. Even if they do HNF is thousands of acres big, plenty of space for all. h.h.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2011 10:33:51 GMT -5
There are plenty turkeys in the south where I do my hunting, and in the Hoosier N.F. More than enough to allow two spring gobblers without harm to the resource. Not sure where to draw the line, but it would improve turkey hunting for a lot of folks.
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Post by gobblerstopper on Apr 3, 2011 12:56:32 GMT -5
The way I understand it, two zones would not change the opening of the "North" zone. It would make the "South" zone earlier. I hunted KY opening day about 8 years ago and they had 6" of snow the day before season. I think it was April 15th. You seldom hear anyone say that KY should open later. It wouldn't do much good for the North Waterfowl zone to open up the same time that the Ohio River Zone opens if most of the water is hard by that time.
Most of the state could support a two bird limit, but some of the state still have little or no turkeys due to available habitat and other reasons. I could go with two zones if the second tag was an "extra", you choose the "zone" for it to be used in when you purchase it and you have to fill your originial statewide tag first. Heck, even like some other states and only allow one bird the first week would probably be workable too. I could see two zones working, but couldn't see the DNR setting it up where it would do so.
Of course, since I think the success rate for turkeys is still well below 50%, it probably wouldn't matter how many birds the majority could kill and where they could kill them.
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Post by racktracker on Apr 3, 2011 18:37:58 GMT -5
Hmmm.. interesting. If we had a split season the south would be over run the first week. Not good. Two bird limit? Only when we go statewide. If it was a two bird limit in certain counties those counties would be over run too.
Lets just leave it alone? OK?
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Post by featherduster on Apr 4, 2011 6:47:12 GMT -5
My county was one of the last to open for a turkey season, there were good numbers and it was not hard to find birds that could be hunted. Fast forward a couple of years and they began allowing fall hunting, throw in a few bad weather and poor reproduction years and now they are almost impossible to find. Next to duck hunting nothing excites me me more than turkey season however I feel that the season for them should be a spring only and 1-tom limit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2011 7:19:55 GMT -5
Turkeys have been studied a bunch, research shows that fall seasons won't effect spring populations much I'd any.
And that in the Spring you can kill most of the Toms and the hens will still be bred. Most are already bred before the season starts. The hatch is the most important factor, and weather conditions are very important to young poults.
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Post by oneshot on Apr 5, 2011 5:25:03 GMT -5
My hat is off to Steve Backs and the NWTF for doing such a great job with the Indiana Wild Turkey.
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Post by 10point on Apr 5, 2011 8:43:42 GMT -5
The easter weekend youth hunt is a bummer. No way we can hunt on Easter Sunday.
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