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Ol' Crooked Claw - North Georgia Mountains

Started by Buckman18, April 22, 2018, 10:23:01 AM

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Buckman18

I killed an interesting gobbler on Chattahoochee WMA near my home in the north Georgia mountains yesterday afternoon. We have a lot of wilderness up here, and my hunt started at 4:30am when I started hiking to where I wanted to be at sunrise.  Long story short, 11 miles, an elevation change of about 2,000 ft, and 11 hours later, I had not heard a gobble or seen a feather. I made it back to my truck at about 3:30 and was about to call it a day. However, when I called my wife she told me she wouldn't be home until after dark, so this freed me up to hunt the evening. I drove to another ridge that I bow hunted for bears last year, and had seen several long beards over the course of the fall.  About 30 minutes later, I found some fresh scratching, and was looking for a tree to set up to lightly purr and cluck and rake leaves, when I thought I heard one scratching for real. I clucked once, loudly because of the wind, and immediately he walked 4 or 5 steps toward me. When he stuck his big read head over the rise, BAM! I shot him in the face!

He had a 9 3/4 inch beard, 1 1/4 inch spurs, and really long 3 inch claws on his feet. One of his legs was somewhat deformed and turned about 90 degrees, which I suspect is what caused the strange claws.  Anyway, thought yall might be interested, ive never seen this before.

Untitled by joey youngblood, on Flickr

Untitled by joey youngblood, on Flickr

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dublelung

That's certainly unique. Congrats on a hard earned gobbler!

MISSISSIPPI Double beard

They call him...Kenny..Kenny

Waynesworld23

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land cruiser

Congratulations on a cool unique bird.

I have only seen that at a local DMV office. Always wonder how those employees use keyboard, I guess that's why the lines are so long.

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Spitten and drummen

Bet he was a miserable fellow with those toe nails lol.
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guesswho

Congrats.  I've seen it on one toe but not matching opposites. 
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Buckman18

Quote from: Spitten and drummen on April 22, 2018, 01:09:35 PM
Bet he was a miserable fellow with those toe nails lol.

I cured what ailed him with a 3 inch load of Longbesrd #5's!   :fud:   :OGturkeyhead:

KentuckyHeadhunter

I've seen that at the NWTF museum in Edgefield SC.  Can't remember what causes it.  Very nice bird and I know those mountains aren't easy pickins!
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ElkTurkMan

Way to hang in there and stay with it. Congrats on a hard earned bird.

3bailey3

WOW! I have never saw anything like that, congrats on the very unique bird!

Spitten and drummen

Quote from: Buckman18 on April 22, 2018, 03:42:49 PM
Quote from: Spitten and drummen on April 22, 2018, 01:09:35 PM
Bet he was a miserable fellow with those toe nails lol.

I cured what ailed him with a 3 inch load of Longbesrd #5's!   :fud:   :OGturkeyhead:


Lol , yes you did. Congratulations on a fine hard earned bird.
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"QUEEN OF BATTLE FOLLOW ME " ~ INFANTRY
"DEATH FROM ABOVE " ~ AIRBORNE

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