mustistuff
Banned
big birds
the rancher/farmer where i hunt a great deal claims that he rarely sees a bird with a big full beard for what ever that means but coupled with what i think i know, something about the area seems to be keeping that from happening, again no science involved but last winter i watched 87 mature toms walk by me at about 100 yds, i had my trusty zeiss 10 x40's and check out everyone of them the best i could, first off i was amazed at the group of birds, 2nd, there was not a jake in the bunch or at least a beard less than 6" but also none of the boys had any trouble keeping from tripping over their beards, for whatever, not one of them caught my eye. hooks of course i couldn't see. with the number of birds i see, surely a die off problem they don't have, therefore some old birds have to be around and in numbers i would think, this would suggest to me that something else is taking place, just don't know. just looking at this fall's reg. i am amazed considering the number of birds i see that there is a limit of just one bird but if i go a 100 miles east i can shoot 4. if that is correct it seems hard for me to believe there could really be that many birds there to warrant that limit, they would have to be everywhere and all on posted land maybe
cheers
the rancher/farmer where i hunt a great deal claims that he rarely sees a bird with a big full beard for what ever that means but coupled with what i think i know, something about the area seems to be keeping that from happening, again no science involved but last winter i watched 87 mature toms walk by me at about 100 yds, i had my trusty zeiss 10 x40's and check out everyone of them the best i could, first off i was amazed at the group of birds, 2nd, there was not a jake in the bunch or at least a beard less than 6" but also none of the boys had any trouble keeping from tripping over their beards, for whatever, not one of them caught my eye. hooks of course i couldn't see. with the number of birds i see, surely a die off problem they don't have, therefore some old birds have to be around and in numbers i would think, this would suggest to me that something else is taking place, just don't know. just looking at this fall's reg. i am amazed considering the number of birds i see that there is a limit of just one bird but if i go a 100 miles east i can shoot 4. if that is correct it seems hard for me to believe there could really be that many birds there to warrant that limit, they would have to be everywhere and all on posted land maybe
cheers
