Just wondering what the lightest bird you ever killed
I shot one here in Pa the second week of the season that weighed a whopping 15 1/2 lbs with a 10" inch beard. I thought that was kind of unusual
I've killed a few northern Florida eastern birds in the 14 lb range back in the late 1990's. The birds in that particular area got bigger over the years once we decided to keep our deer feeders and food plots going year round. Killed an old bird a couple years ago that weighed over 22 lbs on that place.
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13 lb jake was my smallest.
Seeing as how I have only 1 recorded weight, other bird never got weighed. 17 lbs 1 oz
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on January 15, 2012, 05:31:11 AM
Just wondering what the lightest bird you ever killed
I shot one here in Pa the second week of the season that weighed a whopping 15 1/2 lbs with a 10" inch beard. I thought that was kind of unusual
Shot one in Northern Michigan that weighed 15 lbs. It had a 10 in. beard too, and little nubs for spurs. His chest feathers were missing from getting his butt kicked too. Came in all by himself.
My son killed a mature gobbler last year that was really small. Everything looked proportionate but he was just real small. I called him Mini Me.
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This 3 year old PA bird tipped the scales at 14.5 lbs. It was the second mature bird taken from nearly the same tree that weighed 14.5 lbs.
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Shot a hen a couple of fall's ago that weighed a whooping 6lbs!!!!
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Killed a mature, probably 4 year old gobbler here in MO many years ago that weighed, as best as I can remember now, 13 1/2 pounds. It was actually one of my most memorable hunts ever. I hadn't heard a single gobble all morning, and was actually starting home. I stopped at a gas station, and was standing there filling my truck and thinking how nice a day it was. I decided to drive a few miles to a secluded boat ramp, and see if I could hear a bird anywhere. It was some time after 10:00 AM. I pulled into the parking lot and listened, then began calling with a push-pin call. After about 10 minutes, I had heard nothing, and was getting ready to pack it in. I cut on the call loudly, and a bird responded across the cove. Once he got started, every time I would crow call, he'd sound off. It took me some time to get close to him, as I had to circle the cove to do so.
Our season ends at 1:00, and it was pushing that when I finally called him in close enough to kill. I had to relocate on him probably 4 times. He'd respond, then drift away until I could barely hear him. I'd change positions, and start in on him again. After I shot him, I ran up and grabbed him and almost threw him over my shoulder! I thought he would be a monster, but he did have a 12 inch beard, and about 1 1/4 inch spurs, as best as I can remember. A few years later, only about 4 miles away, as the crow flies, I killed another gobbler which was almost his twin.
I killed a 2 year old several years ago here in Pa. that weighed 15 1/2 pounds. He had a 11 1/4" beard! To date it's the longest beard yet! It was the third week of the season and I think he had been a very busy fellow! :lol:
Quail, 10 Oz :TooFunny:
13.5 lb. eastern here in Arkansas. I killed him late season on heavily pressured public ground right off a main road. It was a memorable hunt, because I had to move a few different times. It was about 5:30 pm in the evening and he gobbled very well. It was the 3rd time I had hunted him. A friend and I had him within 10 steps the week before, but he was unable to get a shot. He had a long thick beard and good spurs.
Smallest longbeard I've taken weighed 14 lb 10 oz, had a real nice beard though.
Friend killed one that only weighed 12 lbs, it was like a dwarf, all features were smaller than a normal gobbler
I shot a hen a few years back in the Fall. Didn't weigh her, but I'd be shocked if she weighed anymore than 10 lbs.
Ive killed a couple fall hens that probably weighed around 8lbs
Killed a couple in Kansas in late May that weighed less than 14lbs, also Big Cypress birds of South Florida are long legged light birds by nature also, killed a bird in there that weighed 15.5lbs.
17 pounds
Of course i killed this one on our annual turkey rodeo hunt that the biggest turkey wins.
14lbs.
old, dominant bird late in the season.
15 lbs with a 10" beard and 1" spurs. I thought my scales were broke when I saw the weight. :TooFunny:
Tried another set of scales and got the same thing.
I killed Grandpa last year. Just over 16 lbs, a snow shortened 5" beard but had a spur 1 3/8"
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on January 15, 2012, 05:31:11 AM
Just wondering what the lightest bird you ever killed
I shot one here in Pa the second week of the season that weighed a whopping 15 1/2 lbs with a 10" inch beard. I thought that was kind of unusual
There is a story that goes with this bird I got. He was the dominate gobbler running with 2 other ones, a jake and a bigger bodied bird with a stubby beard. I missed this one two days before, he came in by himself. The morning I did get him all three of them came down to me, him first, then the stubby one, and i'll tell you old stubby had a head the size of a soft ball, but I passed on him because I liked the longer beard. I hunted stubby the rest of the season but never got him.
14 pound rio jake with a 4 inch beard, nubbin spurs.....but man he was fun to hunt back then!
15
12 pounds ,but he had a over 11 inch beard and 1.5 spurs -Pure Osceola , killed in the late season {2nd to last day} he was a lean mean machine - He just spent more time with the hens , and little feeding - Average is 15- 16 pounds , 17 and up is big one
The first birds I ever called in was a pair of jakes, got busted and rolled one of them running away. Weighed in at a whopping 12.5 lbs. And that was with 2 oz. of 6's adding to the total. I was so happy to have finally called one in and killed it, I could have cared less about the weight.
I have taken two mature gobblers in the last 5 years that weighed in the 12.5 lb range. Both from the same county in Alabama, but about 30 miles apart. Both had really nice sets of spurs, just every thing about them was proportionally smaller.
Here is a pic of one the gobblers heads, notice how hairy looking it was, and had more feathers than normal up the back side of his head.
The old timers claim the myth about the " Mossy Head Gobblers", this might be one of them!
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8lb. 8oz hen shot with my my bow on 10-12-00 at 20yds. Still the toughest and smartest bird I have ever killed. Took me 45 minutes from when she first answered my call to when I finally killed her. I had to coax her in and once she finally commited she stopped behind a dead tree and allowed me to draw my bow. She stood there forever it seems which was probably 40 sec before she took a few steps and I shot her heart out at 20yds.
9lb. bearded hen couple of years ago behind my house
10lbs, 12 lbs. Fall hen and jake.
Osceola hen - 8 lb's
Osceola Jake - 12 lb's
Osceola longbeard 15 -1/2 lb's
14.75 lb Jake (first bird)
smallest Tom was 18 and some change. notices an average lighter weight last year after a hard winter among the birds I saw shot. Last year all our tom's were 16-20 when most years they are 20-24 for the same age birds. Also saw a few stubby beards that had been broken off
with a warm snowless winter so far im hoping for some fatties with big ol' beards in the spring!!!
O lbs , 1st yr hunting.
15 pounder here! Had around a 10" beard and 1 1/8" spurs. Shot him on May 12th that season. He had wore the weight off him self with it being so late in the georgia season.
A guy I hunt with shot a 9 1/2 pounder. It had a 7" beard and 3/4" spurs. We kept bugging him that it must be a lesbian very butch bird and could he please get the eggs out so we could have breakfast. Still not sure if it was a runt or a screwed up hen.
9 lbs. 10 oz grey phase bearded hen. (http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/grey_bird.jpg)
Longbeard - 15 lbs
Jake - 12 lbs
About 5 years ago a friend and I doubled on 10" toms. His weighed 12 lbs and mine was 10.5lbs! I thought that was really odd, but they came in gobbling like crazy, so they got shot.
16 l/bs 13oz He had a 10.5 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. He was a old piney woods bird.
A 12 pound Osceola jake.
I dang sure wasn't going home empty handed. Those public land Osceolas are tough birds!