I'm curious as to how big a turkey gets, most bigger ones around here seem to run in the low 20lb ranger that I've actually laid eye on.
SO...how big, what state, private or pulic land.
Biggest I have gotten has been a couple 23 lbers in Nebraska on private land.
Biggest one I shot here in Kansas weighed 26.7 pounds. I shot it on private ground
24lbs and 3ozs. private land in west central Florida. Large bird by Florida standards.
21#9oz GA Private Ground
23lb private land pennsylvania
23 lbs with a scale in SE Mi. but I guesstimate that one I took in northern MI. was maybe 25 lbs.
23.5 pound Rio weighed with a NWTF Turkey Pro scale
Good Luck and God Bless
Ray
28.2 MO private land in 2001 and I am going back there again this year. Can't wait.
TRKYHTR
Weighed, 24 lbs. I don't think I've killed any larger than that, but I've killed a few in Kansas that I didn't weigh that I believe were right up there.
Interestingly enough, I killed a bird years ago with spurs over 1 1/4 inch, and a 12 inch beard that only weighed 13 1/2 pounds, if memory serves me correctly. The bird was normal in every way, just extremely small. I've actually killed two toms in that same area that were both really small. Neill
25.85lb on my digital fish scale! private land southern MN! 5 yr old
23lbs 11 oz.private land here in Va. :newmascot:
251/4 lbs tallapoosa county al. when i killed him i had 3 hens within 3 foot of me he was 30 yards away. i think there were 15 to 20 hens with him. eased in to the edge of the field he was in and he was just over a rise and i could only see his fan. sat down and clucked once and all the hens headed toward me. end of story.
scott
21 lbs here in OK, thats on the larger side for our Rios.
26 lb 11 oz. Open coal company property in southern WV. Didn't win the heavy bird contest. Not sure what the fattest was.
21 lbs on private land
Same as in the lightest thread, Seeing as how I have only 1 recorded weight, other bird never got weighed. 17 lbs 1 oz
26.250 east central Illinois,private ground,weighed him on the meat scales at the store.Moonshine Illinois ,pop.2
Several 22# to 25# birds in Iowa over the years but my heaviest bird to date is a monster from God's Country of Tennessee on Private ground weighing 27 1/2# in 2009.
27.9lb..taken last year in Iowa on private land.
There is a pic up posted in the turkey contest page..under Witch Doctors and the warm up thread if you want to take a look at him!!
26.10lb taken in Nebraska on public ground.
Some big ol birds been shot, dont think I can recall any monsters thats been killed in my area, but then again I talk more turkey hunt'n on here than with locals.
26lb. Show Me State bird!!
shot 2 24.5 birds last year in TN and 1 2 years ago that went 25.2 in TN.
most of them around my area are in the 18-22lb range.
26.3 new york
24lb 12 oz TN bird last year.
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Wisconsin 28# 2oz Eastern,
Nebraska 26# 4oz Rio
S. Dakota 24#3oz Merriam
25lb Eastern
24lb Rio
24 lb. Nebraska Merriams
19lb Rio don't laugh I'm still alittle impatient.
Eastern 26.25 lbs