Last week I drove from St Louis to Charleston South Carolina, then down to Savannah Georgia, and back to St louis. All during daylight hours. I saw a grand total of zero turkeys.

Ol dad

Have not seen them in high numbers around here as much either lately

Best news I've heard.. Give it 2 weeks... Kantucky

Heard the hoot owls got them

Seen quite a few young birds last fall but are numbers are way down

There must be a pile of them in Missouri.
MDC doubled the length of the season this spring.

A large bunch must have moved up here! Not uncommon to see a few dozen every day in the fields.

Clay I sure miss Mr John. Bet he is rolling over. Program has sure changed since the old days. Come over here and hunt them all day

I’ve seen them do some stupid stuff, but that one takes the cake.

No lie

probably see around 75 in the last week some of them more than once but wouldn't be fair to drive past the same 30 3 times and call it 90.
I know where there are about 8 flocks

all on private land and all of it is spoken for as far as I know.


they will get to smaller groups once we get to B season
a couple weeks out on A season yet.

If there were exceptions to avoiding the profanity filter on tman than I could comment further on this..

Ol dad

SD extended the pheasant season a few years back when we had very few birds I think it’s tourist bait thats all that makes any sense.

Wonder if the Chinese Bird FLU is the cause?
Turkey numbers are down by a large % everywhere.
Now cattle are getting Bird Flu?

Even though we had a super mild winter, #s here seem to be down Big Time from a year ago?
Like WAY big time.

Can't think it depredation as I've walked many miles of (what was) Prime riverbottom habitat for turkey and have not seen a single dead or feather pile.

Look at license sold vs turkeys killed.

I’m with ya man.
Every state is cutting back in some way. Missouri doubles the season length in the middle of long term population decline.
Cutting edge wildlife management don’t ya know.
Gotta justify your job somehow I reckon.

They are all at my house…

I think I quit counting at 70 on the large flock. About 15 in the other pic. There are birds out of view in both pics.

You can have em all! Dumbest animals I've ever seen. You want a 12 inch bearded wing bat, you can stand in my grader ditch with a heavy stick and fill as many state approved tags as you can buy. Those morons were in my field all weekend following me closer than the dog while I was chopping down weeds. Wife asked why I've never gone turkey hunting, I told her it's not really a sport if they are trying to catch a ride in your game bag. Turkeys.... people like to pretend the animal is smarter than them so they feel better....