You are the perfect example for his explanation. The "pressure" he was referring to is not the actual hunting pressure, it's the killing. You killed one instead of two. So, you have put less "pressure" on the population. It's very common for gobblers to come into a setup in multiples. Makes sense if they want to lessen the kill to some extent to make you earn them both on different hunts. Their goal is to sustain a higher population so the hunting is better for everyone and makes sense.
I can assure you he was referring to hunting pressure on the birds still alive with his reasoning and KY is not attempting to grow their population o turkeys. I'll get over it as they have their reasonings (the one you give is by far the best I've heard yet). I also had it explained one time that they were trying to cut down on untagged birds by only allowing one per day (don't ask me to connect the dots cause I didn't understand it either) I can't wait to try and fill my second tag Saturday...I'm sure my car is pumped for yet another 500 mile roadtrip as well lol
Only way this makes sense is to reference the actual harvest pressure. It is the only biological reason for such a law. I still think you might have misunderstood the reasoning, or the officer himself is clueless. Iowa used to do the very same thing until turkey populations got so hight that two birds in a day would have no negative impact on numbers.
This is for sure the reason, and my point really. I agree the only logical reasoning for the rule is to preserve the population, I just believe that time has passed for this state. KYs turkey population mirrors that of Iowa so maybe we aren't far behind!
Ya, maybe you will be able to take both next time. Our only problem here is that the gun hunters have to wait until 4th season to kill a second bird or just get two 4th season tags. Some of them are crying about the fact that bowhunters can kill two right away. Waaawaaaa. I would love to hand some of them a bow and tell them to have at it!
In Delaware you are only allowed to take one per season. Of course the season is about three weeks long.
We in Ohio have the same 1 per day thing. We also can only hunt till noon the first 2 weeks of the season. A DNR guy told me that the hunt till noon thing was to keep pressure off the birds in the afternoon and evening for breeding purposes during the peak of the breeding season. (makes sense) The one per day thing was simply to make it more difficult. Yep,, thats what he said "just to make it more difficult". (As if it isn't hard enough)
