With all these heavy birds being posted I'm thinking someone might lay down a 30 pounder this season.
Has one ever been posted on here before?
Anyone on here ever kill a 30 pounder?
Not from me you won't. These Rios barely ever go over 20 for me. I killed maybe three or four that have gone 21-22 lbs in 25 years chasing them.
Biggest spring rio I've killed was a 24 pounder (that was on a fishing scale and the taxidermist's scale). When I was young and didn't know squat about turkeys I shot one in the fall while deer hunting that went over 30 on our deer scale. If I knew more I woulda taken it to town to a certified scale.
I have a customer who posted up a pic of a 27# on my facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=436094299816274&set=o.113476608692866&type=1&theater
There's a 30 lb'r or two on the Kansas records...I am sure they would have been an Eastern species.
30 might be a lil far out there but hey who knows
Some guy on one of the WMAs I hunt this year told me he took his son opening weekend and his son killed a 28 lber. Last year on opening morning on another WMA another guy told me he killed one in a previous year that was 27. Can't say for sure unless I saw the birds but I'm sure we get a giant now and then. My biggest this year was 22-14.
I killed one several years ago in MO that was 28.2.My biggest Rio was 23. Rios just don't get that heavy. Not here anyway.
TRKYHTR
Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 18, 2013, 03:43:57 PM
I killed one several years ago in MO that was 28.2.My biggest Rio was 23. Rios just don't get that heavy. Not here anyway.
TRKYHTR
Guy told me the other day he killed a 35lber. I just looked at him and nodded lol. Isn't the record like 33lbs killed in ky?
I agree on the Rio's they don't get that big normally. A 20-22 lb bird is probably good size where I hunt Rio's.
My grandson took a nice Rio the other day at 24 lbs.
I've taken a 26 lb Eastern last two seasons in a row but never bigger than that yet...keep hoping!
Quote from: turkey_slayer on April 18, 2013, 04:33:30 PM
Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 18, 2013, 03:43:57 PM
I killed one several years ago in MO that was 28.2.My biggest Rio was 23. Rios just don't get that heavy. Not here anyway.
TRKYHTR
Guy told me the other day he killed a 35lber. I just looked at him and nodded lol. Isn't the record like 33lbs killed in ky?
I've had guys tell me they killed a 50#er. that is some doesn't kill many turkeys and doesn't own a scale. LOL My buddy anbd I both laugh every time we bring it up. We didn't tell the guy he was on crack. We just let him believe it. I also had a guy tell me he's killed 300-400 turkeys. He lives in CA. You couldn't legally kill that many since there has been a season. I still have never seen him sitting behind a dead gobbler. LOL
TRKYHTR
My biggest bird to date is 27 lbs. I have killed a few 25 pounders. I would like to say I have seen a 30 pound turkey but they all look bigger in strut.
It looks like Oregon gets the occasional monster Rio...
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/records_heaviest2.html (http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/records_heaviest2.html)
I killed a 25lb'er back in WI a few years ago...Anything is possible
My personal best is 26 1/4. I've also killed a 25 1/2, couple 24's and 23's. IMO, if someone kills a 30lber, it will come early in the season, before they start chasing hens all over. A breeding tom can lose upto 20% of his body weight thruout a season, just like a rutting buck.
Yep, those fall birds are huge. Especially when they've been fattening up on deer corn.
We very well could see one come out of Iowa. This year so far I smacked a 26 1/2 pounder, last years bird was even heavier, 28+lb, up here they eat corn and beans year round plus every thing else! I could see it....
My biggest was a 27lb Rio/Eastern hybrid in Kansas last year. That was my heaviest bird ever.
Well the biggest I have killed here in Mo was 24lbs and weighed by the MO Conservation Dept game warden their on their digital scale. I can tell you right now that a lot of the big 26, 27, or 28lb turkeys on some of the old scales that were used to weigh them are none other than fish stories, and they continue to grow. It takes a big bird here in MO to weigh 26lbs. And yes their are some birds that will go that and maybe more. But they are pretty rare. The digital fish scales that they have now are extremely accurate and will weigh within 2oz.
And anyone that kills even a 25lb gobbler in the fall regardless of where your hunting unless of course you got a feeder that is feeding them like farm chickens I for one would like to see the bird. It takes a hell of a fall bird to even go 20lbs here in MO. That's something my buddy who has killed a ton of birds and that goes for his dad as well have told me. You just don't see very many fall birds that will keep their weight and that includes the big boys that might go 25 or 26lbs in the spring. The biggest fall bird I have ever kiilled weighed I think 18lbs 4oz.
ive been watching one for 2 weeks and hes gotta be close to 25 lbs but 30lbs is a monster :turkey2: