Mississippi hunter bags rare, snow-white turkey

[Sir-diealot]

Mississippi hunter bags rare, snow-white turkey. 'Seeing him is just a miracle'

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/outdoors/2025/03/18/snow-white-turkey-bagged-by-mississippi-hunter/82487382007/

I always find these different color phases to be neat. I would very much like to photograph one. Not sure I would shoot one or not.

[GobbleNut]

That's a pretty cool gobbler. I've never seen a single color-phase turkey in my sixty years of hunting them. As for seeing a white one like that, I, too, am not sure I would shoot it either. Even with the fact that this seems obviously to be a wild turkey, there is always going to be that percentage of turkey hunters that are thinking that any bird like that has some domestic blood in him.

[Tom007]

Wow, thx Steve. What a trophy

[Greg Massey]

That's an awesome find and what a trophy ... I've seen ones that have had browns and a mix of whites color feathers ..

[Dtrkyman]

Really cool bird, I've seen a couple Smokey grey hens but never a Tom!

Definitely never a pure white!


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[Tail Feathers]

That will be a cool mount.
Where I hunt, we used to have a hen that was white on the back half and red on the front half.  I know she lived at least two years. I always hoped she would have some toms with  the coloration but it's been years and that hasn't happened.

[Dougas]

That is really cool!

[Spring Creek Calls]

Glace sent me this picture the morning he shot the gobbler. He hunts with one of my boxes.

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[aclawrence]

That's pretty cool. I think I would much rather kill one that is the grey or black or red color for a full mount. Wild or not it just doesn't look as cool to me.


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[Dougas]

That's pretty cool. I think I would much rather kill one that is the grey or black or red color for a full mount. Wild or not it just doesn't look as cool to me.


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I can see the reason you feel this way. I think it is because there is no contrast in the plumage. It would still be cool to get one and mount it though.

[Sir-diealot]

Glace sent me this picture the morning he shot the gobbler. He hunts with one of my boxes.

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That's mighty neat, I hope you get some business from this.



@everyone else, I am at a point I have to decide if my body can handle cleaning one, if it can't then I will just shoot it with the camera. I do not know if it was just the way that the sun was playing off the iridescence of the feathers but there was one I chased a few years ago that was a copper color, I had said bronze by mistake but it is definitely a copper color. I never did get it. It is the one on the right.

[King Cobra]

Wow, pretty wild... Not sure what I would do if I saw that prancing through the woods.

[Marc]

Always cool to see different color phases...  I have killed several leucistic ducks, and only seen one true wild albino duck...  Not pretty birds, but cool to see something different.

Amazing that this white turkey lived longer than 10 minutes after exiting the egg...

If I saw a solid white turkey, I would probably give it a pass, assuming a large domestic component. Cool looking bird, but I do not find them to be nearly as aesthetically pleasing as a standard wild turkey.  I do admittedly, find the smokey phase to be far more interesting...