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Judging by harvest on our local wma, and my own seasons, the past 3 years have been very upscale, with lots of birds and lots of gobbling activity in the spring. Priorr that, say 5-6 years, success was much slimmer and the wma nor me did very well, or at least as well as recently. It seems togo in cycles.
Much depends, I think, on the hatch from the spring 2 yrs prior. If it is wet, cold and lots of flooding, many nests and poults do not survive, and the number of youg turkeys going on to adulthood falls. the result is fewer gobblers to gobble at 2 yrs of age, which are typically the most vocal and abundant.
Other factors too, of course. A run of disease on predators, say coyotes certainly, that would thin their numbers, would correspond a bit to more birds surviving as well.
I hunt same area past 25 yr+, 20 plus days out of a 30 day season, limit of 5 birds!!!!!!!!