This is why you don't show pins/imagery in videos

[Paulmyr]

Where do you live^?

Mn, does it matter?

[eddie234]

I get everyone's point, I get so annoyed during deer season with all the out of state hunters. The Saturday before opening Monday all the trucks with out of state plates pulling their trailers loaded with 4wheelers and corn. Wish everyone would just stay in their home state.


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[btodd00]

I've never been to any of the spots that they post the onx screen shots of so I wouldn't know if the terrain matches but I wonder if they just pull up a random spot on on x and put their name and bird location on that instead of where they are actually hunting. Videos in years past used to have a asterisk at the bottom and they would say example map when they were trying to showcase a feature or situation they were hunting

Im a Florida native, they have only been to my state one time that I know of and I knew exactly where they were at just from the features in the videos even without a map screenshot

[arkrem870]

It matters a great deal.... As southern hunters have seen the largest pressure increase and are dealing with loss of season/limits/draw etc. Frankly we go north for easy gobblers and less pressure. 

[Ranger]

Didn't Pinhoti get his windows busted out in one state?  Not really to steal anything but more to send a message?

[sasquatch1]

It matters a great deal.... As southern hunters have seen the largest pressure increase and are dealing with loss of season/limits/draw etc. Frankly we go north for easy gobblers and less pressure.

This.

Also once the seasons up there open the whole damn country is open.

It not near the crowding affect of everyone racing to the early opener

Yea they could pick their way through the north at the end but many are already burned out and or there's still several states open to spread the pressure out.


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[Paulmyr]

It matters a great deal.... As southern hunters have seen the largest pressure increase and are dealing with loss of season/limits/draw etc. Frankly we go north for easy gobblers and less pressure.

You say that like I don't hunt the south? Like I don't have places there that I  have worked hard to find keep secret. Spots that I can return too after not having been in 20 yrs and bring home gobblers. You say that like I haven't spent over 30 days in Ga in one trip learning to hunt tough pressured "southern gobblers". Like I haven't spent week long trips to Arkansas only to come home with bad poison oak. Like I haven't seen the hay days of Missouri........ You say that like I don't know what I'm talking about. Stereotype much?

I got some news for you. Turkey's are turkeys no mater where you hunt them. They can be just as tough up here in Mn and just as easy down there in the south. And pressure is everywhere on public land.

[El Pavo Grande]

The apathy for the resource and future of turkey hunting within the current turkey hunting culture is astounding.  Absolutely amazing!!!  It is apathy to suggest everyone should just accept the increased pressures on localized populations and continued loss of hunting opportunities.  Think outside the box (critical thinking).... This is NOT a positive for our future.  Frankly, it's disappointing.   

For the thousandth time, plus a million more, the argument against the information free for all is not about "I", "Me", working harder, walking farther, be creative, find a new honey hole.  Not sure how much more clear that can be stated. 

I hope we never get invaded by a foreign power.... "Get over it boys, it's a sign of the times.  Accept it and move on". 

We aren't asking to blow up the internet, just asking that those on YT, FB, Forums, etc. change the content that is shared. 

[sasquatch1]

It matters a great deal.... As southern hunters have seen the largest pressure increase and are dealing with loss of season/limits/draw etc. Frankly we go north for easy gobblers and less pressure.

You say that like I don't hunt the south? Like I don't have places there that I  have worked hard to find keep secret. Spots that I can return too after not having been in 20 yrs and bring home gobblers. You say that like I haven't spent over 30 days in Ga in one trip learning to hunt tough pressured "southern gobblers". Like I haven't spent week long trips to Arkansas only to come home with bad poison oak. Like I haven't seen the hay days of Missouri........ You say that like I don't know what I'm talking about. Stereotype much?

I got some news for you. Turkey's are turkeys no mater where you hunt them. They can be just as tough up here in Mn and just as easy down there in the south. And pressure is everywhere on public land.

All this past tense talk. When last have you been? 20 years ago?


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[arkrem870]

Just giving you my perspective of 30 years successfully hunting the south extensively.  Now our seasons have been shortened and public land regulations have been tightened to deal with the added pressure of loose lips.  Sure I've lost spots. Sure I've found new ones. That's not my point. I'm talking about southern turkey hunters losing our nearby hunting opportunities / seasons so a few can profit off the resource. 

[sasquatch1]

Just giving you my perspective of 30 years successfully hunting the south extensively.  Now our seasons have been shortened and public land regulations have been tightened to deal with the added pressure of loose lips.  Sure I've lost spots. Sure I've found new ones. That's not my point. I'm talking about southern turkey hunters losing our nearby hunting opportunities / seasons so a few can profit off the resource.

It's just getting started. Sooner or later it will come to a home near (_____) if it keeps up


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[Paulmyr]

How about, if you guys want to be activists, go the source. Take a look around the perimeter of this message board. That's where you start. They and the companies like them have more power to control the fate of the resource than any Youtube video guys. If you want no more YouTube vids tell them and show them that you don't like them supporting........whatever it is you don't like.......You don't like watching people shoot jakes, you dont like people naming states.

All I'm saying boys is if your serious take it to the top. Find out who supports them and let them have it. Let the sponsors know things need to change. The only way to do that is hurt their bottom lines more than if they weren't promoting turkey hunting. Feel like saying good bye to your Mossy Oak Original Bottomlands. Have at it.

Any thing else is...well......just complaining on a message board.

It matters a great deal.... As southern hunters have seen the largest pressure increase and are dealing with loss of season/limits/draw etc. Frankly we go north for easy gobblers and less pressure.

You say that like I don't hunt the south? Like I don't have places there that I  have worked hard to find keep secret. Spots that I can return too after not having been in 20 yrs and bring home gobblers. You say that like I haven't spent over 30 days in Ga in one trip learning to hunt tough pressured "southern gobblers". Like I haven't spent week long trips to Arkansas only to come home with bad poison oak. Like I haven't seen the hay days of Missouri........ You say that like I don't know what I'm talking about. Stereotype much?

I got some news for you. Turkey's are turkeys no mater where you hunt them. They can be just as tough up here in Mn and just as easy down there in the south. And pressure is everywhere on public land.

All this past tense talk. When last have you been? 20 years ago?


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Last year. Do you want know how many brought I home too? Maybe the color of the under of the underwear I was wearing when I shot them?

[AndyN]

Sometimes it works out in your favor. I was watching a video last spring and instantly recognized the spot as a field I've shot a couple deer off of. The problem was it was a NR hunting in an area closed to NRs. Needless to say they won't be back.

[Paulmyr]

How about, if you guys want to be activists, go the source. Take a look around the perimeter of this message board. That's where you start. They and the companies like them have more power to control the fate of the resource than any Youtube video guys. If you want no more YouTube vids tell them and show them that you don't like them supporting........whatever it is you don't like.......You don't like watching people shoot jakes, you dont like people naming states.

All I'm saying boys is if your serious take it to the top. Find out who supports them and let them have it. Let the sponsors know things need to change. The only way to do that is hurt their bottom lines more than if they weren't promoting turkey hunting. Feel like saying good bye to your Mossy Oak Original Bottomlands. Have at it.

Any thing else is...well......just complaining on a message board.

......and I'd like to add, good luck.

[arkrem870]

Many have been working on the issue.  But what would help immediately if people on forums and people on social media etc would  quit watching their videos. Without the clicks/views they have nothing.