I don't think anyone blames the sportsman hunters for the extinction, but market hunting sure didn't help in the conservation. From what I've read, they weren't shot for sport. As for humans impacting game populations, the indiscriminate shooting of wild turkeys over bait for table fare regardless of sex or age year-round was the biggest reason for the need for the successful reintroduction through stocking cannon netted birds in areas that hadn't held a wild turkey in generations, and in some areas, outside their historic range. Gil