I’m on my annual mission to save the wild turkeys.

[pastorp]

I’ve killed 4 raccoons and 1 possum this week. Seems every years the varments need thinning out. So I get up during the night and check what’s under the corn feeder.
I’ve been using my Benelli M1 90 20 Gauge shotgun. With 2 & 3/4” Remington express shells with #5 lead shot. I am just shooting whatever I can find because ammo is hard to buy right now.
What have you guys been doing to contribute to our game animals well being? 

[oldandslow]

I feed the birds year round. It's for the benefit of quail and dove mostly. We have no game animals in the area. If a roadrunner decides to take up residence I annoy it until they move on. As I stated in another post they kill and eat anything they can run down. I have watched them sit in wait under my honeysuckle vines to jump up and catch a smaller bird and then eat it. If it was legal I would shoot every one I see.

[Ranger99]

Some time back I talked to some
state wildlife biologist personnel
about the wild turkeys the state
had bought and restocked in the
eastern part of the state.
They agree that the main problem
that turkeys and the other ground
nesting birds face is varmints
particularly coons and skunks and
possums. Lethal removal is pretty
much the solution for the problem.
Relocation just doesn't work

[BUGEYE]

There's a season on coons and possums here in Georgia.
Coyotes are all we can shoot here in warm weather.    Unless you use the SSS plan.

[Ranger99]

   Unless you use the SSS plan.

That's pretty much of a universal
way to handle problem varmints
with and without collars

[pastorp]

In Florida coons & possums are legal to shoot year round. Coyotes & armadillos are invasive species and legal to shoot year round. We just don’t see many skunks anymore so I haven’t shot any.

Free range hogs are legal to shoot year round too.

I’m old enough to remember when Florida had no fence laws. Everyone just grazed their stock together and rounded them up every year. They would mark the calves and pigs with whoever’s mark was on the pigs they were running with. Then the Yankees came and didn’t like free range so our state passed fence laws.

[Dee]

In Florida coons & possums are legal to shoot year round. Coyotes & armadillos are invasive species and legal to shoot year round. We just don’t see many skunks anymore so I haven’t shot any.

Free range hogs are legal to shoot year round too.

I’m old enough to remember when Florida had no fence laws. Everyone just grazed their stock together and rounded them up every year. They would mark the calves and pigs with whoever’s mark was on the pigs they were running with. Then the Yankees came and didn’t like free range so our state passed fence laws.

Same as east Texas.