Originally Posted by
jepcho
I cant wait till my kids are old enough to take. My oldest is my 8yo step daughter who I am going to take on a deer hunt this fall. Maybe next year for turkey, just hasn't had enough shooting practice yet.
You're in Arkansas I see, it's weird how our season is a week or so earlier than yours. I'm up in Northern Iowa and its been lows in the 20's all week. Actually had snow earlier this week.
For a "southern" state we do have a late start. Our turkey numbers have been down for a long time. We used to start first of April or even late March and run for a month or so. That was before I started turkey hunting. Now our season is only two weeks. I talked to our state biologist and he said that is why our turkey population is the way it is, and he doesn't see our season dates changing any time soon.