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Offline PalmettoRon

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Weirdest Crop Contents
« on: June 19, 2020, 01:58:14 PM »
Just curious what is the strangest thing you've found in a turkey crop? I once found a small salamander.On a Merriams I shot in AZ years ago, I found a full crop with nothing but honey bees. I asked Lovett Williams about that one as I was surprised that the bees wouldn't sting the turkey. He was interested as usual about all things turkey and surmised that the turkey must be protected from the stinger as the bees were swallowed and the gobbler almost assuredly came upon a hive in order to fill the crop up with that many bees. I've killed plenty with centipedes, caterpillars and an occasional millipede, so a turkey esophagus must be pretty stout.

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2020, 03:16:51 PM »
Bees were probably swarming. During a swarm they are drunk with honey and much less likely to sting.


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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2020, 04:26:54 PM »
A John Deere combine


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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2020, 04:34:20 PM »
Saw this picture the other day of one with a marble in it.

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2020, 05:01:00 PM »
Last year I killed a fall jake with a BUNCH of green stink bugs and segmented worms and seeds...

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2020, 05:03:35 PM »
If I recall correctly it was over 100 green stinks...


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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2020, 05:36:02 PM »
Saw this picture the other day of one with a marble in it.

Wow! That is weird. Marble>> Gizzard, I suspect if you hadn't killed that gobbler.

Offline JMalin

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2020, 06:02:31 PM »
Horned frog (lizard).  Don’t know how that turkey managed to swallow it.  Started a thread about it a couple years back and posted a photo.

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2020, 08:02:06 PM »
Saw this picture the other day of one with a marble in it.
Man that’s nasty. Lol


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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2020, 08:10:37 PM »
Awesome re: the horned toad!! I am still waiting on someone to push the baby quail fiction. Used to hear that nonsense from some old timers before I became an old timer. The timelines of gobbler season don't mesh with the bobwhite quail hatch, but I've heard that old tale a bunch as an explanation for the decline for bobwhite quail.

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2020, 10:02:32 PM »
Found a .22LR bullet only....no casing. Must have been shiny, he saw it and tried it. No scarring or other damage noted to his body other than my pellets, so he didn’t get shot with it and it lodge in him...

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« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2020, 10:34:42 PM »
Found a .22LR bullet only....no casing. Must have been shiny, he saw it and tried it. No scarring or other damage noted to his body other than my pellets, so he didn’t get shot with it and it lodge in him...
Probably thought it was a rock


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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2020, 10:47:47 PM »
Shot a couple birds with what I assume were wild raspberries...  Long ways from any residential areas and crops full of raspberries...  They ate well.
Did I do that?

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2020, 07:28:08 AM »
Stove Top stuffing is what I like to find!

Almost always have been some sort of seed, but have found a few grasshoppers

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Re: Weirdest Crop Contents
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2020, 08:17:42 AM »
a friend found a woman's diamond ring in one once....no kidding, I was there when he killed it. It was adjacent to a lake in a national forest recreation area. A lot of people camped along the river there, so I  guess someone lost it while camping.