Monday season opener

I can only think of one reason to start on Monday vs. Saturday and it is in direct conflict with their “we need to recruit more hunters, license sales are declining” agenda. Typical government, talk out of one side of their mouth and s**t out of the other. But hey, remember it’s for the greater good!

I thought that’s why we’re starting 2 weeks later. “Give em time to breed the hens.”

K-Mo said:

They’re just copying what MO has done forever. The idea is to spread out the harvest instead of having all the easy gobblers killed on opening day. It ain’t about the hunter, it’s about the resource, as it should be.

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I thought that’s what the one bird in the first week was for.

K-Mo said:

I figure that will be what’s next.

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Uhh.. in case you didn’t know, that went into effect last year.

My point was simply that they have been restricting hunters increasingly more over the last decade and none of it has had a positive effect on the population. Since it went into effect only last year, we’ve yet to see the effect of that one. The next few years should let us know about it, but didn’t someone start a thread about Missouri numbers being down?
I’ll fess up and say I have been asking for our old last Sat in March for kids and first Sat. in April for us regular season for the last 10yr in my gobbler survey. With a one bird limit!

longspurs said:

These young right out of college “biologists” don’t know crap. They’re probably taught by professors who aren’t from Arkansas, and they probably aren’t either. Their only goal is a nice lucrative career path.

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LUCRATIVE is a streeeeetch compared to the majority of professions.