Would You Still Go?

[WV Flopper]

 I like that Salty, but I won't be doing it. LOL

[eggshell]

I said earlier I would go anyway for the experience, but if two birds are an option I am definitely hunting the second bird. If I counted I believe I have probably made between 100-125 out-of-state hunting trips. Of these, I am betting 75% resulted in one bird or less regardless of limit. Many trips I killed zero. I doubt I have averaged even one bird per trip. So I prefer the states that allow two birds, because it means more hunting and more bang for my buck. However, it's the destination I am after as much as the bird. I have places I want to hunt. In most cases I decide I want to hunt a destination and then I check regulations like limits. I have never really chose on how many birds I could kill. It's not a criteria that is a game changer. It's simply not an issue with me.

[owlhoot]

  Just go.....throw a rock at your first bird and then you can shoot the second.......It's all about calling them up , right ?

Wouldn't get to use my new gun then, oh oh   I could use my left arm to throw see if that works.

[arkrem870]

Loose lips = more regulations. Hunter recruitment sounded wonderful.  Until it happened and now states are scrambling to decrease hunting opportunity to make up for all the new licenses being sold. One bird limits are likely gonna be the norm in the next 5 years ago. But 5 years ago I'd called you crazy if you told me that. Then I saw spring thunder and later the pinhoti project pop up. I was concerned after what I've seen happen to my states public duck hunting from YouTube and social media. I saw these guys filming on familiar places hunting turkeys. I saw them show maps with locations right on them. I saw them in the places I had hunted for nearly 20 years. Within a year the crowds doubled in the spots they had pimped and I moved onto other areas in an effort to find some peace. And that worked ok, still more leafy shirt wearing fan boys but not in great numbers. Then comes covid and stimulus checks. It was like gas on a fire for traveling/turkey hunting. And now here we are with all these new hunters and newly fad following traveling hunters.......talking about how wonderful a one turkey limit is. Cheers

[Wvdanimal]

We did it for years, 24hr drive to the Black Hills. We ate nearly every bird at camp and gave any extra to the owner of the cabin we rented. Pretty nice to not have to deal w meat issues all week and transporting it so far. It's so beautiful out there, I'd almost do it if all I could carry in the woods was a camera.