Age this bird

[derek]

May have seen it on my other thread, when I shot it I saw it's beard and thought it was a longbeard.  Then I see it's spurs and fan and think jake.  It was 18lbs 12oz, which is a monster of a jake for the area.  It had a stepped fan and 1/2" nubs for spurs like a jake would have.  But a 7 1/8" main beard thick like an adult bird's would be. 







Any thoughts?  Is it just a jake? 

[strutstopper]

Big ole super Jake.

[Reloader]

Super Jake on steroids?


I've killed big toms with nubs and also seen older birds with a jake like fan, but I'd call jake fan and nubs a jake.

[gophert]

My guess is that it's an early season Jake. (born early last year)  I don't pay too much attention to the beard lengths just because I have found it to be so random.  It's that fan and spurs that to me is the tell tell sign.  

[tomstopper]

Huge Jake...

[Hognutz]

The tail feathers say it all..Nice bird, but still a jake..

[goblr77]

Jake.

[jellyhead48]

X2 on super jake

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

Jake.

[drenalinld]

Would have to hear him gobble...lol

12 months.

[Ky strutt n bust n]

big ol jake right there!!

[blackmagic]

Ok, have you guys seen a Jake with a full fan?

[RutnNStrutn]

I'd say one heck of a jake!! Congrats!!

[remmy1187]

A shooter Jake!

[TauntoHawk]

had a youth hunter kill a 19.5lb jake last year with a 6.75" beard thing was a beast of a jake with a cannon of a voice

I killed a gobbler a mile from there that was only 19.1lbs 11.25" beard and 1-3/8" spurs probably a 3 yr old


tough to judge by anything but full fan and spurs even then its not exact