Poor Country Preacher...I'm just a long term amateur. I spend all the time I can with the turkeys trying to learn something new. I learned early on how to be low impact hunting on small wood lots. The worst thing you could do was flush one over the landline. I've gotten pretty good at slipping around turkeys plus you really develop that skill when your objective is not always to shoot one. Of course, when the season opens, it's war.

A shortened season is a statistical case and not a biological one in my opinion. Consider the ultimate statistical case that I have ever seen. I have turkey hunted a couple of times on the White Mountain Apache tribal lands in Arizona. It is one million acres, they sell 50 tags to non residents per year. Every where you go on the land, one of their game wardens is with you. The natives only buy about 25 tags per year. They will put you under the jail if you're caught messing around on the reservation. They guide guys to about ten 400" elk every fall. It is the prettiest place on earth and covered with turkeys. There are drainages where you can't drop a BB on the ground without it landing on a turkey track. That's what you get when there are only 100 turkeys killed per one million acres.

We'll never have that but it's a mighty nice place to visit.