I will bet anyone a $100 bill 280 birds were killed last weekend in Clarke/ Washington
I would be glad to "make" (not take) that same bet. Probably throw in another 100 birds in Wilcox that were killed last Saturday. Like I said earlier, I know that I heard 3 die Saturday morning in Covington when I was fishing. You can be rest assured that 1000's of hunters hit the woods this past Saturday and killed birds and I'd bet that 90-95% of them did not have a "youth" with them.
Just from a betting perspective I’m gonna have to call bullchit on this one….There may be a lot of people talking about it but I bet that the percentage that are actually in the woods carrying a dead turkey is few. If it IS the case that "thousands" of hunters are currently hunting illegally then I would think we should see a big spike in the number of tickets being written for hunting out of season, correct?……Can’t we look that up??
I hate to do it but CNC youre a DA and dont even realize it. You do realize that 1000's of hunters (2,000 for example) would equate to each county having just 30 hunters in each county, that decided to open the season early and on the old date. I can easily see that. Big spike in tickets??? There are probably less than 50 game wardens in the field checking hunters throughout the state (remember that conservation officers have to split their time between both fishing and hunting in the spring). 50 wardens, patrolling 33 million acres, looking for 2-3 thousand illegal hunters scattered across the acreage in full camo and fully intending not to get caught, while only needing to fire a single shot that the GW could use to pinpoint their location and move in on them, and the GWs success rate will be negligible. CNC, you've got to stay "out of the weeds" and look at the overall big picture. Hint: It's not what you are seeing on chuckie check.
