I picked out a particular bird this year in March while scouting a flock of 9 long beards, there was one bird that was clearly bigger bodied than the rest. He swaggered around the hens and ran a lot of other gobblers off. Second day scouting him he walked right infront of the truck and I could see he only had one all white spur and the other was snapped off. I decided from his spur and size he'd be the White Whale of my season and since I was registered in a cash prize heavy bird contest that the big bodies single spurred bird was the one I wanted to kill.
First week of the season the farm was locked up with another hunter, I waited my turn and second week I was able to get in there. Went out roosting to see if I could get a bead on where the birds were roosting after a week or so of hunting pressure, barely made it away from the truck when a bird rips from a small field 250yds away and flys up into a big pine tree. I slipped in closer for a look and sure enough out of all the turkeys its the white whale.
Next morning I was sitting 34yds from him well before light with a buddy and a video camera. He's on the limb alone gobbling his head off too a group of birds on another ridge and flew down almost imediately after my first flew clucks. he had his neck crained so hard looking for me as he came down he actually tripped and flopped over on the ground when he landed. Correcting himself he streched his neck out to look for a hen suiter and took some hevi #6's as his prize.
23lbs, 10.25beard, 1-1/16 white spur other snapped off at 1/2
