The hunter survey is statistically valid and close enough for determining harvest trends. You can see the reports on the dcnr web site, and see that the AL harvest has been pretty consistent for about 30 years. I've gotten 2 surveys; I think they send out something like 8000 a year. They list the number of turkeys killed by county for the past few years.

Whoever handles the survey should be able to tell us within 5% + or - of the number of limits killed each year, but they ain't saying. Maybe they really never have tried to determine, but the info is right there in the surveys.

My belief is that nowhere close to 10% of AL hunters kill a limit. And the number that kill a limit and then quit hunting is so low that it has no effect on turkey populations. But I could be wrong and would really like to know.

Matt, if you are still reading this far, how about finding out for us? I'm glad to hear you don't think a limit change is close at hand, but it sure seems to me that a low spring limit has become the politically correct way of management.