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Post by mullis56 on Mar 29, 2007 19:51:27 GMT -5
Given the liberal limits of other surrounding states should we increase our season bag limit up to 2 birds?
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Post by Noblebowhunter on Mar 29, 2007 20:08:02 GMT -5
ha... maybe for some of you southerners. Just starting to get decent/not great bird numbers up here. I like it how it is for us.
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Post by larryhagmansliver on Mar 29, 2007 20:11:52 GMT -5
Heck yea if it was county by county. Why not?
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 29, 2007 20:24:27 GMT -5
No doubt that we have a lot more turkeys than ever before. I see them just about everywhere I go.
BUT - I have to defer to our state turkey biologist on a second gobbler in the Spring.
Not sure how a two bird limit would work by counties.
Say, if Switzerland county was a two bird limit wouldn't it get over run by hunters after they killed one somewhere else?
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Post by bbarth on Mar 29, 2007 20:37:18 GMT -5
Let the population grow around the state first.
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Post by hornharvester on Mar 29, 2007 20:44:48 GMT -5
Up here in NE Indiana there are more turkeys in some counties than others. We still don't have a fall shotgun season in most NE Indiana counties so no to the 2 bird limit here.
I'm with WW on this to let the biologist determine the spring bag limit. h.h.
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Post by JohnSmiles on Mar 29, 2007 21:48:39 GMT -5
Had to go with no.
I know some area's would support it, but many I hunt simply would not.
There has been very little improvement in the turkey population over the last 15 years where I hunt, and in fact it seems as if we see and hear less each year.
Now I have not been able to hunt every year, but that is what I have seen during the hunting I have done.
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Post by tmarsh83 on Mar 29, 2007 22:36:23 GMT -5
no turkeys here....id rather see a more widely distributed population.....
what is it with wanting to kill two of everything around here....?
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Post by hunter480 on Mar 30, 2007 0:17:49 GMT -5
2 bucks a season-heck yeah-2 turkeys in the spring? Nope. We`d need to have a much greater population, ALL across the state before it would be reasonably feasible.
Leave it as it is-next thing you know, certain groups will want to pass an 8 inch beard minimum to kill a turkey.
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Post by mullis56 on Mar 30, 2007 1:52:17 GMT -5
Some of you guys are one track minds, 2 bucks yeah, for the love of god you would rather shoot inferior bucks every year and get 2 of them like you use to? Would you rather have mature bucks roaming around and maybe not get one every year.
I'm sorry, I'm lost! This is a TURKEY HUNTING THREAD!
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Post by gobblerstopper on Mar 30, 2007 6:50:59 GMT -5
If the turkey population in ANY area has not increased in the last 15 years, then it is probably never going to increase. There's a reason birds don't live in certain parts of the state.
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Post by huxbux on Mar 31, 2007 8:51:05 GMT -5
I don't believe we've yet reached the point of allowing a two bird limit. I'll defer to the biologists to make that decision.
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Post by duster on Mar 31, 2007 19:44:01 GMT -5
Not enough roosting trees with all those large corn and bean fields in the northern part of the state. Some parts will never have a large flock, some will.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Apr 1, 2007 9:49:10 GMT -5
I would like to see the population grow throughout the state before seeing a 2 bird limit one in the fall one in the spring is fine for now, usually I focus on deer in the fall so if a bird happens by I'll take it but that has not come about for me yet.
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Post by davepowers on Apr 1, 2007 12:38:28 GMT -5
Given the liberal limits of other surrounding states should we increase our season bag limit up to 2 birds? Why have other States decide what we should or should not do with our game laws. The only time that should happen is if the other States make us (Indiana residents) pay more. Dave |
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Post by kevin1 on Apr 2, 2007 14:07:59 GMT -5
I don't believe we've yet reached the point of allowing a two bird limit. I'll defer to the biologists to make that decision. I agree, until someone who's done the proper research says so then one is plenty. We have a Fall season now, let's not get greedy. |
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Post by Decatur on Apr 2, 2007 14:53:42 GMT -5
NO! Let's get huntable numbers in every county before we start killing two. If there's too many (impossible!) turkeys in your neighborhood, send them to mine!
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Post by cambygsp on Apr 8, 2007 8:57:24 GMT -5
Not yet......we can kill two birds a year (spring & fall) and thats plenty for now. I think turkeys are fairly easy to kill if you got em. Lifelike decoys and enclosed pop up blinds have done wonders.
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Post by oneshot on Apr 9, 2007 7:58:45 GMT -5
I would go for a Archery only 2nd. tag for the spring.
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Post by rhinodogg on Apr 10, 2007 12:22:51 GMT -5
Maybe on a county basis. We have 4 hunters on our property and we all got a tom last year (3 in the first two days). In 2005, only one of us got a tom. I passed on a couple of jakes, but the other two guys never had a shot at a legal bird. I think we should wait a couple more years, and let the birds spread out more.
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