Mississippi Draw Turkey Hunts

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It’s on clarion ledger just behind a pay wall for me.

MS does get hammered by OOSers since it opens weeks before anyone else

To biologically blast them suckers baw

I’m in the Florida panhandle hunting similar woods to south Mississippi and our gobbling usually sucks the first 2 weeks. I’ve been lucky to routinely kill a bird opening week the last couple years, but they aren’t gobbling much. Most of them we just are hunting yearly roost spots and find a bird without hens.

So I was just curious if Mississippi had something else going for them that made the hunting better, or just a simple matter of different season just to be different or extend it or whatever.

No it’s more of it’s always been that way and they don’t want change

Their chickens will come to roost eventually like most the southeast turkey populations

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Seems like they’re making a change, to me. I think they should be applauded for taking action that benefits the resource, despite its obvious detriment to their bottom line.

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That’s true. Definitely a step in the right direction

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taking action that benefits the resource

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I wish LA would do that every once in a while.

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Not sure how they can ban out of staters on federally owned “public lands.” State lands of course, but If they’re banning out of staters for first 2 weeks. Seems like an all around ban would be needed to include federally owned lands.

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Second sentence in that link

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B. Non-Resident Draw Hunt 1. All non-residents must be drawn to hunt open public lands from March 15 – March 28. 2. Open public lands include National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, Corps of Engineers lands, etc., that have statewide seasons without special regulations. This includes MDWFP-operated Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) that are open with no special season or draw hunts during this time.

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Allowing hunting on private first two weeks but then banning people from federal lands seems a big odd imo

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You can manage pressure on private lands. Pressure gets intense especially opening day and weekends on public lands Will be interesting to see how the feds handle the draw on national forest lands that don’t fall within the WMAs. I am guessing they will just let the state handle that portion of it as well

But it sucks where I hunt first few weeks anyway. What has killed that area are all the damn clueless yankee hunters. They are always first in woods but they way over call, etc and then run all over the damn place. Last year we finally had a good bird coming in about 100 yards out of range coming hot though then suddenly from nowhere pops up this idiot from Illinois across the revine making more noise that a small elephant and we were done. Totally clueless that a bird was being called in