what is the heaviest eastern you ever harvested!~

[Basser69]

I have never weighed a bird that I have killed until this year. The one that I did weighed 21 pounds 6 ounces. So I guess I will have to go with that one

[ryersonhill]

22-1/2# Pending state of maine record with a bow and arrow!

[Gobblestopper]

West Central WI 25lbs 3oz 12:35 PM

Put a young kid in my honey hole four years ago and he shot his first bird ever:  25 1/2 pounder 13.5 beard about 9:30 AM 

Kid was never the same after that.  Another perfectly good human being completely ruined by turkey hunting!

ps. I'm heading out with him in tow again starting next week!!!!

[BrowningGuy88]

Well I have killed 28 Alabama gobblers, and only two stand out as special. Killed them back-to-back mornings in 2005. Only year I ever killed my limit of 5.

First : 23lbs, 11" beard, 1 3/8" spurs (5 year old bird)

Second: 22lbs, 10.75" beard, 1 3/16" spurs (4-5 year old bird)

I shot the first right at the break of daylight one morning after shooting the wrong bird the weekend before (three came in and I shot the smallest). My partner couldn't close the deal that morning on the other big fellow. Actually had them land in our laps that morning. Never made a call and they flew down at first legal light.

The second one, I went the morning after the first by myself and he gobbled only one time. Can't say I blame him he had seen his two compadres get lead poisoning. I knew where he was and where he wanted to go so I just kept purring and clucking untill 12:00 noon (sitting in the same place since 5:20) and I saw a gap between two cypress trees turn black. There he was strutting and lonely. He spooked at what I thought was about 35 yards and I let him have a face full of #5's out of the 20 gauge. He never flopped, just spread his wings and laid there. Then when I picked him up, he about carved me for Thanksgiving! Well after I got him outta my hands and a boot on him and him dead, I stepped it off. 47 loooong steps.

All the old timers told me I would never kill these two birds after I shot the 2 year old that was with them, and you should have seen the looks on there faces after I bought two sets of spurs and two long beards to church tat next Sunday morning to show them! I was only 16 at the time.

[ILIKEHEVI-13]

24lbs 6:25AM

[deerhunt1988]

24lbs weighed on produce scales, taken in MS

It was my first turkey and we had no clue how big it was. It had 1 1/4" and 1 5/16" spurs and we thought it was just a decent bird. We were eating him the next night. lol.

The bird had been strutting with about 20 hens and 2 jakes since the season started. Someone had actually missed the morning of the day I killed him. I bushwhacked the bird at around 5:30PM that evening when he was displaying for his hens.

Just wish we would have known how big of a bird he was at the time. Would of liked to have had him officially weighed.

Close to 40 birds later, the heaviest I have killed is 22lbs in Missouri.
And have taken 2 in Mississippi around 20lbs.

[DMP]

SC   23 LBS

[chatterbox]

19.5 here.

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

24lbs 3 oz.

Virginia

[MarkJM]

23 lbs on the dot. 10 1/2 inch beard

[clarksvalley]

24 lbs. in nemaha county kansas,and 20lbs here in pa.

[turkey slayer]

20.4 lbs biggest for me here in Louisiana

[GSLAM95]

26lbs 8ozs in IL
Several that hit the 25 & 26 lb mark over the years but I have never had one hit that 27 lb mark yet.

[Borat]

13 lbs.

[Devastator]

20.90 in n.y. a few years ago out of 53 beards on the wall between n.y. and pa.