How many birds to take from small property

[Paulmyr]

Hunt public long enough and you'll come to find turkeys learn which properties get pressure and which don't.  By the end of the season most will be on the adjacent unpressured property. Keep your disturbances to a minimum. Especially on a small property.

[Marc]

I do in No way believe the comment that birds will avoid a property that they are shot on, that is wrong!

I have killed turkeys within the same 100 yards for years. I have killed multiple turkeys with my back again the same tree year after year.

Kill the turkeys, don't scare them. Before you start, there is no argument to this.

I should correct myself, and state that they will avoid or move out of areas that they are not being shot on, compared to areas of safety where they are not (all things being equal as far as habitat, roosting, and food availability).  I have seen several situations, in which birds move off of property with hunting pressure, to areas with less or no hunting pressure.

One of the owners relatives was hunting a very good property I had access to, killed several birds on the roost, and that property had very thin populations of birds (compared to surrounding properties) after that event...  I believe they killed two birds on the roost on two different occasions, and they flat left (hens and toms).  Turkeys are adaptive, and will learn (to some degree) to avoid danger.

Turkeys have learned to have a preference for residential areas, cause there is less issues from non-human predators, as well as human predators.

[dzsmith]

I do in No way believe the comment that birds will avoid a property that they are shot on, that is wrong!

I have killed turkeys within the same 100 yards for years. I have killed multiple turkeys with my back again the same tree year after year.

Kill the turkeys, don't scare them. Before you start, there is no argument to this.

both scenarios are true. You shoot a turkey and the others never come back , you can shoot one and kill his buddy the next day. Kind of unpredictable . However ... I wouldn't let the thought of spooking one bird stop me from dropping one .

[sixbird]

I make it a point to leave two mature gobblers on the properties I hunt.
So far, it's worked out pretty well.
My thought process is if you leave two mature gobblers and any jakes that live there, you have a good seed stock.


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[eggshell]

We set a limit of 25% of known gobblers to be harvested and this family property has a very stable flock year to year. However, it is 1200 acres continuous