what is the heaviest eastern you ever harvested!~

[cahaba]

21.5 lbs. in Alabama. Most of these birds here are lean and mean.

[Tom Black]

Twentyfour pounder, 9 3/4" beard, short spurrs at only 3/4"  Killed in2009.
Tom Black
Cantuckee

[MarkJM]

21 pounder,  10inch beard, 1 inch spurs.

[muddy]

I've shot 2 over 29 pounds, one back in 2002 I think and one this spring.  Both with a bow.  One was at noon the other a few minutes after fly down.

[gobble157]

29 lbs - Houston County Minnesota

[davisd9]

20 lbs., 1 in spurs and 11.5" beard.  Best weight and beard bird to date.  April 3, 2010.  Flew off the limb to 15 yards from my gun barrel. 

[BigHooks]

28.3    11 3/4 in. beard an 1 3/4 spurs Smith co. Tenn. about 10 am

[WildTigerTrout]

23 pounds even. Third day of the Spring season ,10 am. Clinton County Pa. 2004. He was a smart one.  I worked him for nearly two hours. Fooled him by scratching in the leaves!

[pseshooter300]

23 lb this past spring killed on my birthday

[El Pavo Grande]

24 lb. in MO about 5 years ago at 10 am.   He was an old turkey with two beards and 1 1/4 spurs.  No way of knowing sure if it was the same turkey, but I missed a gobbler the year before at that exact spot that had taken a lot of patience and a little coaxing to call in.  Regardless, I like at least telling myself that I had exactedy revenge.

The smallest adult gobbler I have killed was a 13.5 lb. gobbler here in Arkansas about 12 or 13 years ago.   He had a long, paintbrush beard and good spurs, but it was late season and he was poor from too much breeding and not enough eating.  I had hunted him a couple times the week before and ended up connecting one evening about 5:30 pm.  Earlier that week a friend and I had him at 10 steps, but he came in at a bad angle and the other side of a brush top.

[timberjack86]

21 pounds on middle tn wma. Killed him at 11 a.m

[DUCKDIGGLER]

21.5 lbs

[st8tman]

25 lbs, 12oz. this past Spring in Bedford County Virginia.

[mnbeardbuster]

28lb 3oz  Southeast Kansas 2009

[strut and spurs]

23 lbs