I've been turkey hunting for 40 years and I've killed my share of longbeards. But one of the birds I killed this season had ivory colored spurs. First gobbler I've ever seen like this.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170518/37e588f33a015aa36c65e72a0c8fb478.jpg)
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I love all the little genetic variations in birds that can be found, keeps you coming back for more. Those are some of the purest ivory I've seen.
cool! Amazing turkey hunting is like a box of chocolates....
Man, you weren't kidding. I have never seen a spur that was that pure white. Pretty cool.
Very cool!!
I like to call pearlie whites... especially when are attached to white legs.. I've killed several over the years.
The toe nails seem to be white as well. Very unique
Pretty.. They exist for sure.. :)
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Here's one I killed this year....ivory with black tips.
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Some cool looking spurs there fellas!!
I've killed one like that. The best set of spurs I have ever taken were like that. I should have saved them but just never got into saving them. They were probably 1 1/2". I killed him on a private farm that had not been hunted in years. He was probably a pretty old bird. He was strutting behind 3 hens and another gobbler. I shot figuring he was the best of the two. This was back when we took them to the checking station and they were weighed. He was only 16 lbs and had the thinnest 9" beard I have ever seen.
Killed this one 2014 season.
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Very neat!
I have killed a few :)
Couple of good ones on this chain
MK M GOBL
Quote from: MK M GOBL on May 18, 2017, 10:04:40 PM
I have killed a few :)
Nice. Good looking spurs right there.
Couple of good ones on this chain
MK M GOBL
Congrats!!
I think Chuck Anderson killed one with nice long pink spurs a couple years ago. They looked pretty neat.
Denny
Most birds around here have pink/red with black tips. However I have killed some that are all black and this is the only pure white spurred bird I've ever killed (hard to see but this is the only pic I've got). I kick myself for doing nothing more than eating this turkey every time I see a picture of him. Nothing overtly special about him, but he's just pretty. Probably the "prettiest specimen" of an eastern I've ever killed.
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One of my birds this year had "bull horn" ivory spurs. I think they are the neatest looking spurs with black tips
Pink daggers from a couple years back.
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Very nice have killed a fewPink spurs in my time! My ole Turkey Hunting mentor ( Arthur Truelove) called them the pure strain> Just looking at the Toenails maybe some albino in him> Had friend years a go killed a pure white mature Tom I teased him he killed out of someones pen and he said when he called it in was a normal colored tom with him> that be worth trip taxidermist