My Best Bird Yet

[oakraidia]

Yesterday I was lucky enough to bag my first multi beard tom. Birds were gobbling hard on the roost and after flying down, but were keeping their distance and not showing themselves. It sounded like 5+ toms in 3 different locations. At around 8 I had 2 separate toms about 50 yards out in different locations, but still couldn't see them in the vegetation. Shortly after that a hen with a tom in tow showed themselves a little further off, the hen drifted away and the tom started to come my way. He hung up right at 40 yards and went into half strut, but wouldn't come closer to my setup. I was really hoping to get a good show and watch him come in at full strut, but he started to walk away. That's when I decided to take the 40 yard shot. I didn't even notice he had 3 beards until I went to start cleaning him. I tried to get a good picture of the 3 beards, but the picture is a little blurry.

23.5 lbs
Beard 1 = 10 1/16"
Beard 2 = 7 5/8"
Beard 3 = 5 1/8"
Spurs both = 1 1/4"


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[Greg Massey]

Congratulations on nice gobbler

[Turkeybutt]

Congratulations on a great bird.

[Brianb3006]

Congratulations on an awesome Tom!


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[toneloc]

Congrats, that's a boss gobbler!

[WildSpur]

Congratulations!!

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[3bailey3]

Awesone, Congrats!

[Mossberg90MN]

Congrats! It's always so cool to get a bird like this. Highlight of the season that's for sure!


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[EZ]

That's a Whacker!!!!!

[Marc]

You cannot complain about that one!  Very nice bird.

[oakraidia]

I had to edit the post, I had a typo on the spurs. They were both 1 1/4", not the 1 1/2" I previously posted.

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[GobblerReaper]

Awesome! Congrats on a great gobbler!

[JeffC]

Congrats on your personal best! Great Tom.

[Gooserbat]

Congratulations

[zelmo1]

Nice bird bro. Z