I have done any commercial trapping since the 80s, so I'm not really the person to ask. I used to sell to whatever fur buyer was convenient. I don't know what kind of requirements they had.

Id just cut the tails off coons ded on the side of the road

The numbers compensate for that..............

Good news!!!!.....Washiington Co has killed a bird!!.... ....Already more turkeys reported statewide this morning than on the entire youth hunt.......coming in at a clip of about 15 birds every 5 minutes......

PCP…..When we first started this discussion you said you didn’t see any other way of bringing back trapping without the women’s clothing industry demanding fur again……I think there is another way to supplement that demand though but it would have to be done through the turkey hunters and everyone being on board with it.

A lot of things are about perspective…..Why do most turkey hunters voluntarily pass on jakes?......Isnt it sorta just like a gentlemen’s agreement amongst everyone??....That’s why I hint around about it being a bad idea to just abandon “the rules” and promote outlawism to protest. Maybe its just me but I’d think you would be better long term to hold the structure intact and plan to make better rules that folks can get behind. If folks completely abandon the rules now then how can you get them on board with anything that makes sense later?

And that brings me back around to the trapping incentive. If turkey hunters were behind a program that is basically saying….”Ok, I am willing as a turkey hunter to pitch in a little money to help subsidize trapping through paying or trapping for bonus tags”……If there were a gentlemen’s agreement that its worth $40 per coon….10 coons per tag.....then you would have guys like me wearing the coons out. Keep in mind here that any $$$’s are being made by the individuals…..The state would get a little boost in commercial trapping license sales...especially if that license is to sell and buy..... but we’re talking about an incentive program to benefit the hunters. Again though folks would have to behind it and not get all pissy about them "selling your tag back to you" . I would definitely NOT create this incentive program to simply allow folks to get 1 bonus tag after what has been done. If you do that folks will be hostile…..If you create it and tell them there’s a 3 bonus tag limit then I think folks might smile a little more.

Opening Weekend

Fri, March 26th - 1,204
Sat, March 27th - 1,348
Sun, March 28th - 870

I want to know where they killing all them birds in chilton cause it ain’t where I am. Also hunted Bibb and perry and both have been the same dead.

Many years ago when I started turkey hunting an old timer told me if you let the jakes live, you'd always have turkeys to hunt next year. Made sense to me then and now

I know of 6 more killed in Barbour this weekend that aren’t on that list

I figure GC is running at about 60-70% of the actual total

I think only the wardens, out of state hunters, or folks who kill a couple a year use it. I know an old man who kills 20+ most years and I have a cousin that kills at least that many when he isn’t in prison. That Wilcox number is hilarious

I can't wait until the game wardens who read this start following up with all of you bragging openly about knowing of so many not game checking. If you are otherwise legal, why do something stupid and make yourself illegal by just not game checking? It's amazing how much turkey hunters talk about and advocate for breaking the game laws related to turkey's so much, but the same people I'm sure will go out of their way to tell you they are all for "law and order" when it comes to all other laws.

ought to be against the law to shoot a jake. if they want to help population start with that. educate folks like the poster said above that by letting the jakes walk u always got something for next year. 2 yrs ago i called in 7 jakes for my stepson who never killed a turkey and we let em walk.next year he killed one of em now he got a longbeard to be proud of.

The game warden I see the most around here is one of my best hunting buddies. I have a lot of mutual friends with the other one and he seems like a nice guy. I haven’t seen fat fingers in a while. I’m not going to go around telling grown men how to hunt, it’s none of my business. My point is GC data is garbage and it’s a shame that the state is using that info to influence our hunting seasons/bag limits. Fif

Aint it though.......

CNC, chuckie check is probably running around 25-40% max participation. 76 birds to date, in Wilcox

I hate game check. I think it’s useless and an a way to provide the CAB with the excuse they need to do whatever they have planned. But like Mr Steve said a while back, they WILL use game check against us. If the numbers are low, your season bag limits next year will be too. My advice is the same as Mr. Steve’s, if you kill a turkey, game check it. Heck, at the end of the season and you have empty slots, game check those too.

Now I am not naive enough to really believe that by game checking those birds, my future bag limits will be saved. But, I can only do what I can do. If they will use game check against me, then I will check in 4 turkeys by the seasons end. The rest is out of my control unfortunately. The two longbeards I killed this weekend have been checked in.

First 5 counties to 100 birds........

1) Pickens
2) Barbour
3) Jackson
4) Marengo
5) Tuscaloosa

What about pre season stats. Why don’t you have those?

Top 5 Most Overrated counties going into the 2022 Season

1) Bullock
2) Clarke
3) Macon
4) Washington
5) Wilcox

Why make more new laws when turkey hunters obviously don't care about the laws anyways? How is a law against shooting jakes going to help anything in that regard?