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    In my area I have not seen any large increase in turkey hunters in the spring or fall. I certainly haven't heard a lot more shooting. I don't think a lot of turkey hunters have switched to archery equipment of any sort and haven't heard of anyone around here doing a lot of poaching. Yet the turkey population here seems to cut itself in half every year. Now, the numbers are so low, it's rare to even see a few. Something is taking them down, and it's not hunters.
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    But if there are far fewer hunters today than there was decades ago, how is there more hunting pressure? And if the resource is limited, isn't it the DEC's job to protect it from too much hunting pressure? The state gets harvest reports on deer and turkey, so it's not a case of the DEC not knowing what the harvest numbers are. Should hunters be blamed for being better at hunting than they used to be, or should the DEC take responsibility for improper management of the resource?
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    Another nice 8 point buck looking for the does that come to the back yard.
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    Whatever the case, if it weren't for Trump's presidency, this case wouldn't even be going before the SCOTUS. He put 3 constitutional originalists on the court, and that is the only thing that will keep the 2nd A from being ignored like it has been.
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    5 to 10 years ago I used to see large flocks in the woods by me every day. Now I don't see any. I didn't even hear any gobblers in my area all spring. I saw about 3 turkey in the spring. Used to me hundreds of them. How can such a drastic reduction in turkey not be something the DEC is alarmed about? All they did was cut the fall season and it's limit.
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    Doesn't the state regulate legal leghold traps to just the small ones? I don't trap, but know people who quit while complaining about the reg changes years ago.
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    The state made it illegal to use leg hold traps, which were much simpler to use.
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    Trump believes otherwise.
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    They could have left the trappers alone and not implemented all sorts of feel good animal rights trapping methods, removing the old school methods that were effective and easy to use. Without trappers keeping the predators in check, turkey are disappearing. It's the DEC's job to know when something like this is happening and stop it. They didn't.
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    The NY DEC hasn't been doing it's job.
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    Coyotes and all the animals nobody traps anymore, since the state made it so difficult to be a trapper. I don't see many fisher, but the turkeys are almost gone.
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    Mitch McConnell put Trump in the White House?
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    Saw him in the stream and was going to take a picture when he jumped and ran.
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    This buck jumped out of a roadside stream and ran right in front of me mid morning.
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    See the importance of the makeup of the SCOTUS? Trump was definitely in office at the right time to make those appointments. Thank God. https://nypost.com/2021/11/03/supreme-court-poised-to-strike-down-ny-gun-law-from-1913/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=NYPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR0n70bSVd2Vnfgh3q33uTCB_phxdBBIWvc6JVPYhPuCoqZWRGW-IFYPLUU
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    Yeah, but the antler restrictions in this area seem to be working. A lot of young bucks with 6 or 8 points around.
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