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Title: Age this bird
Post by: derek on April 25, 2012, 10:05:51 AM
May have seen it on my other thread, when I shot it I saw it's beard and thought it was a longbeard.  Then I see it's spurs and fan and think jake.  It was 18lbs 12oz, which is a monster of a jake for the area.  It had a stepped fan and 1/2" nubs for spurs like a jake would have.  But a 7 1/8" main beard thick like an adult bird's would be. 

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/drmnhipster/Turkey/DSC02340.jpg)

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/drmnhipster/Turkey/DSC02326.jpg)

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/drmnhipster/DSC02323.jpg)

Any thoughts?  Is it just a jake? 
Title: Re: Age this bird
Post by: strutstopper on April 25, 2012, 10:25:57 AM
Big ole super Jake.
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Post by: Reloader on April 25, 2012, 10:26:32 AM
Super Jake on steroids?


I've killed big toms with nubs and also seen older birds with a jake like fan, but I'd call jake fan and nubs a jake.
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Post by: gophert on April 25, 2012, 10:26:41 AM
My guess is that it's an early season Jake. (born early last year)  I don't pay too much attention to the beard lengths just because I have found it to be so random.  It's that fan and spurs that to me is the tell tell sign.  
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Post by: tomstopper on April 25, 2012, 10:29:20 AM
Huge Jake...
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Post by: Hognutz on April 25, 2012, 10:32:24 AM
The tail feathers say it all..Nice bird, but still a jake..
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Post by: goblr77 on April 25, 2012, 11:19:59 AM
Jake.
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Post by: jellyhead48 on April 25, 2012, 11:26:12 AM
X2 on super jake
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Post by: VaTuRkStOmPeR on April 25, 2012, 12:29:49 PM
Jake.
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Post by: drenalinld on April 25, 2012, 12:31:41 PM
Would have to hear him gobble...lol

12 months.
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Post by: Ky strutt n bust n on April 25, 2012, 12:32:14 PM
big ol jake right there!!
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Post by: blackmagic on April 25, 2012, 12:48:56 PM
Ok, have you guys seen a Jake with a full fan?
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Post by: RutnNStrutn on April 25, 2012, 12:57:58 PM
I'd say one heck of a jake!! Congrats!!
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Post by: remmy1187 on April 25, 2012, 01:14:42 PM
A shooter Jake!
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Post by: TauntoHawk on April 25, 2012, 01:15:19 PM
had a youth hunter kill a 19.5lb jake last year with a 6.75" beard thing was a beast of a jake with a cannon of a voice

I killed a gobbler a mile from there that was only 19.1lbs 11.25" beard and 1-3/8" spurs probably a 3 yr old


tough to judge by anything but full fan and spurs even then its not exact
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Post by: jblackburn on April 25, 2012, 02:19:50 PM
King of the Jakes!

Congrats on an unusually trophy!
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Post by: turkeywhisperer935 on April 25, 2012, 10:05:02 PM
one of the finest Jake's I ever saw.
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Post by: WildTigerTrout on April 25, 2012, 10:49:21 PM
I had a friend that killed an 18 pound jake in NY state years ago. Your bird IMO is a jake, but man what a big one with a nice beard. I killed a jake some years ago with a nice 6 inch beard but nothing like your bird.
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Post by: TRKYHTR on April 25, 2012, 11:35:38 PM
Do you have a picture of it's wing? If so post it and you will be able to tell. I've never seen a Jake with a 7" beard. If the wing patch is full it's an adult gobbler.

TRKYHTR
Title: Re: Age this bird
Post by: Flydown on April 25, 2012, 11:35:50 PM
Nice Jake!  ;D  Tough call for some folks! kill what you want fellas,Kill what you want! Trophy has a lot of different cattories in this day of time!
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