I thought Chuckie was all about the weekend hunter. The way this is looking if I kill on opening day I can’t hunt at all the next weekend.

So is it a done, done deal?

Why do they wanna start it later. Heck some years if we have a hot winter the turkeys are damn near gobbled out for the season even comes in.

x2.....I'd like to know if anyone held out.

Also, they are making all decisions from data collected from WMA's....ridiculous

The later they push it back the more folks south of Montgomery are getting screwed, I wander how many on this board actually turkey hunt

Guess I’ll spend more time in FL and MS the next few years.

Yea SJ22 - the push back screws me way more than anything else - April 1 would hav been brutal for guys 2 plus hours below Montgomery

So how do y’all go about impeaching or removing the entire CAB board?

Yep, big time. The first couple of weeks are usually some of my favorite hunting. I'd like to kick Chuck Sykes right in the nuts. If a candidate for governor would run on the platform of replacing Sykes, they would secure my vote

I had one hammering from the roost about 30 minutes ago. This was from my front porch in the back of our sub division. Must have been a ghost, because according to Chuckie, we don’t have any turkeys!!

It was in the dcnr proposal that was presented to the board, but it looks like it was left out of the version that was approved.

With all the talk leading up to the CAB meeting, I would have figured it would be full of Aldeer folks voicing their opinions in person.

The only way any change will happen is for a new governor to make it a priority. If you will run, I will not only vote for you, I will put up road signs. I'd run myself, but I got too many skeletons in the closet and would get cancelled.



No real change can happen unless Sykes is replaced, and I don't see any movement to make that happen. We need some sort of organization to push that. The AFOA is the only group in the state I know of that has ever shown any interest in standing up to him. I am gonna talk to the guy that runs it.

I thought seriously of going, but I got information Thursday that it was already decided. And what I was told is exactly what they approved, so it would have been a waste of time. And I looked at their rules for speakers and saw that the chairman could decide on who to call, and felt pretty sure he wouldn't call on me. Glad I didn't go.

So what exactly was approved?

3/25 start
4 bird limit

Is that it?

They certainly won’t call on you, if you don’t go.

I dont care about the limit on birds,the mill I work at starts a shutdown the middle of April every year so I only get about 3 good weekends in during the season,I’m loosing 10 days now with these new changes,leave the seasons alone,lowering the limit or moving days isn’t gonna keep the outlaws from killing turkeys,they gonna hunt when they want and kill what they want,these changes hurt the honest Hunter not the outlaw

As I understand it, this may be still on the table



We have had a "turkey committee" composed of 5 WFF biologists who answer directly to Chuck, one AWF biologist and a NWTF biologist. As I understand it, they aren't consulted on much.




Only for the first 10 days




I was surprised at how few folks were there.







One final observation. The proposal pitched at the last meeting (3 bird limit, season Ap 1 - Ap 30) was tabled and never voted on. It is still viable!

That push back stings.

I would be ok with no decoys period. Since they permitted them, they have only helped me 3-4 times. Missouri shuts down hunting daily at 1:00 pm. I’d be ok with that too.