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Author Topic: Biggest Birds You Harvested  (Read 2786 times)

Offline wchadw

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2019, 08:36:44 AM »
This eastern
22#
Had some strands on beard that were 15 inches
1 1/4 spurs



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Offline bigbird

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2019, 11:22:54 AM »
My best is a 26 pound eastern with 1.75” spurs. Beard wasn’t anything special 10”. My son  one the other hand kills 2 hogs in youth season when he was a youth. 24 pounds 1.25” spurs and a 12.5 and a10.75” beards

Offline nebgoosehunter

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2019, 04:26:49 PM »
My biggest is a Rio shot off the Niobrara River in Cherry County Nebraska.  It had four beards, the longest was 10 1/8" with a total beard length of 30 3/4".  One spur was 1 5/16" and the other was 1".  Weight was a hair over 25 lbs.  The same year my good buddy shot another giant Rio off the same property.  Beard was 11 1/2" but it actually had a few strands that were 14"!  It got shot in the beard and they were literally falling out as we picked it up.  By the time we got back to the house to measure everything, most had fallen out so we went with the 11 1/2" measurement.  One spur was 1 7/16" and the other was 1 3/8" and it was over 27 lbs.  Genetics must have been crazy good in that area during that time period.

Offline jryser

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2019, 08:00:36 PM »
28 lbs this year!  Massive fan, and VERY tasty. Two and a half year old. Measured his length only bc i am a The Hunting Public nerd. 52” long.

My mom was with!


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Offline Caleb7mm

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2019, 08:07:03 PM »
Mine was this year. Eastern 22lb 12” beard 1.5” spurs

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Offline MDTOM84

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2019, 08:58:42 PM »
Mine is a Maryland Eastern, 22#s, 10" Beard and 1.75" Spurs

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Re: Biggest Birds You Harvested
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2019, 10:03:29 PM »
Best bird eastern:

26.5#
Triple beard 10,6,and 3.5”
1 11/16 spurs