Members-- What is your ratio of turkeys taken on different lands for Spring ?

[wvspitndrum]

Probably 95% private and 5% public 

[WildTigerTrout]

Public 75% Private 25%

[Double B]

All public for me, except for 2 Merriams off an Indian reservation years ago.   I like big chunks of public.

[Tom Foolery]

60% public land and 40% hunting lease

[fallhnt]

100% while using decoys

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[sps20]

After 53 years of this obsession
about 95% public and 5% private
a long time ago.
Regards
Turk

[Farmboy27]

Most of my hunting is on private property that is basically open to public hunting. It's probably hunted harder than any public ground around. I've only ever killed 4 on truely private land. 2 in Texas and 2 in South Dakota. Around here, if there aren't posted signs up then it's fair game. And I don't hunt any posted land.

[Forked lighting]

100 % private land for 50 years

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[coonhunter]

100% private for me. No public land close by. 

[renegade19]

85% Public would be my best guess.  Private is with permission, never hunted a club/lease.

[Gobspur]

100% PUBLIC

[Cut N Run]

65% leased land
30% small private hard hunted lands
5% public gamelands

Even though there is a lot of public land in this area, it can only be hunted by being drawn & my name hasn't been drawn yet. My public land birds have come from gamelands ~100 miles away that is open to anyone 6 days per week.

Jim

[deerhunt1988]

81% public
19% private

For my home state of MS:

63% public
37% private

[yelpaholic]

95% private
5% public

[GobbleNut]

I would guess the ratio is around 95% public to 5% private. 

I actually prefer to hunt public land in most cases, but sometimes it is just not available.  Public areas are almost invariably larger in size than private parcels and if I am confined to a small parcel of land, I feel like a caged animal. 

As for the difficulty of hunting birds on public as compared to private, there are both easy and hard birds just about anywhere, but on hard-hunted areas, whether public or private, the birds will almost always be harder to kill than on lightly-hunted areas.  If I just want to kill a turkey, give me a lightly-hunted private parcel with controlled access any day of the week.