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Started by Muskie03, April 26, 2011, 10:36:35 AM
Quote from: joshua on May 13, 2011, 11:55:37 PMBoy's I think we just hit the jackpot with Stoner's bird.
Quote from: bird on May 17, 2011, 11:49:46 AMGuys I have to step in here and correct something that I see as completely wrong. Much discussion has been made over the bird that Stoner has harvested. The issue that is being brought up by many members of the site is the beard or double beard. Stoner has provided the best pictures possible of the base of the beard and the issue at hand is that many people are saying that the bird is not truly a double bearded bird and that the pictures of the base clearly show that the beard although a very nice paintbrush was split at one time because of an injury or whatever. And quite honestly I have to agree with this assessment. Not to take anything away from Stoner and his bird as it is clearly a very nice bird and anyone would be proud to have harvested such a trophy but we cannot count that second beard in all good conscious. So I am going to adjust our score to indicate such. I sure you all will understand why we can't count this second beard as I am sure that you all would not want to win a friendly contest with a controversy hanging over our heads. I am aware that Shock Gobble and Awe has the same situation with a bird on their team to that appears to be the same situation with it and I am sure that they too will do the right thing and adjust their score appropriately to indicate such. Stoner: 68.8125Bird: 78.25Doublegobble: 75.0625Blueribbon: 74.15Ghillie: 71.56Muskie03: 70.5625Pittboss: 68.1Expressjet: 64.35Bad Grizzly: 62.37Joshua: 62.125TOTAL: 695.3425
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on May 17, 2011, 04:00:49 PMQuote from: bird on May 17, 2011, 11:49:46 AMGuys I have to step in here and correct something that I see as completely wrong. Much discussion has been made over the bird that Stoner has harvested. The issue that is being brought up by many members of the site is the beard or double beard. Stoner has provided the best pictures possible of the base of the beard and the issue at hand is that many people are saying that the bird is not truly a double bearded bird and that the pictures of the base clearly show that the beard although a very nice paintbrush was split at one time because of an injury or whatever. And quite honestly I have to agree with this assessment. Not to take anything away from Stoner and his bird as it is clearly a very nice bird and anyone would be proud to have harvested such a trophy but we cannot count that second beard in all good conscious. So I am going to adjust our score to indicate such. I sure you all will understand why we can't count this second beard as I am sure that you all would not want to win a friendly contest with a controversy hanging over our heads. I am aware that Shock Gobble and Awe has the same situation with a bird on their team to that appears to be the same situation with it and I am sure that they too will do the right thing and adjust their score appropriately to indicate such. Stoner: 68.8125Bird: 78.25Doublegobble: 75.0625Blueribbon: 74.15Ghillie: 71.56Muskie03: 70.5625Pittboss: 68.1Expressjet: 64.35Bad Grizzly: 62.37Joshua: 62.125TOTAL: 695.3425 It looks like things have surpassed the threshold of absudrdity. I have not been able to view the pictures of stoner's bird due to red x's in the respective threads it was posted in. Consequently, I cannot speak for Stoner but I have no reasons to doubt his integrity. It's difficult to forge the looks of a double bearded bird and if someone was willing to do so in order to cheat the contest, they ultimately would have to live with the fact that they deceived an entire forum to achieve a false sense of victory. The bottomline is that if something looks likes a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it is a duck. The same goes for multi-bearded turkeys. This contest is not for money, nor prizes; simply, quite simply it's about forum camaraderie and killing turkeys. I have a much more clear picture of the second beard with a ruler in my email right now and anticipated posting it to suppress any potential pundits. That being said, with regards to my bird, if the legitimacy of what is CLEARLY a triple bearded turkey is questioned, I'll just remove the entry. I don't need bird, or anyone else on this forum to validate the exceptionalism of such an animal and I am insulted that it is being questioned within bird's post.
Quote from: Bad Grizzly on May 17, 2011, 04:24:45 PMBIRD,he is from SG&A...... I am guessing you already know though....VaTuRkStOmPeR,I was just going to reply to you that I didn't feel BIRD was referencing your bird..... but his reply to your triple bearded bird is correct per contest rules.If I had to make a decision based on the pics, the turkey beard he may have been referencing was taken by your teammate LX_Trkyhunter 4/28/11 that scored 63.125..... again that is just my guess based on me looking at your teams kill pics posted.You FOR SURE should not have been insulted since BIRD did not say anyones name in his post that you replied to saying you were insulted.
Quote from: Bad Grizzly on May 17, 2011, 04:46:32 PMThat's about how I feel too BIRD...... shame about the multiple scores next year, but that should make things simpler and hopefully cut down on some of the nonsense.
Quote from: Bad Grizzly on May 17, 2011, 05:50:52 PMNo need to worry now, Stoner just posted some more pics showing a better view of the beards..... he is good to go!!
Quote from: Bad Grizzly on May 17, 2011, 07:10:41 PMWell it's still all just for fun..... seems to be a great way to showcase all the beautiful turkeys taken across this great country...... When things are all said & done, we ARE all still people brought together by one single thing....... the wild turkey.
