Wild Turkey 101 2019 Turkey Harvest Thread

[zelmo1]

Congrats bro, nice bird 

[camotoe]

Keep them coming


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[aclawrence]

Don't know what's up with that one goofy short spur?  I guess he didn't realize he was going to be going on a score card lol.


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[aclawrence]

Hang on I just punched 19.6 into the weight for the old Gobbler calculator but technically that's incorrect. It says to convert your ounces into decimal form. To do this you have to multiply the ounces x .0625. So instead of 19.6 it would be 19.375. Not sure if any of y'all might have made the same mistake. I will go back to edit mine.


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[aclawrence]

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[notsure]

Great bird, and I've never seen such a difference in spur length. From your picture, it doesn't appear that the shorter spur was broken off either.

[zelmo1]

Nice job bro

[aclawrence]

Great bird, and I've never seen such a difference in spur length. From your picture, it doesn't appear that the shorter spur was broken off either.

No I don't think it was broken.


Hey guys, I struck again this morning!


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[aclawrence]

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[fmf]

heck yeah! good birds!

[zelmo1]

Every bird gets better , keep it up 

[notsure]

MN Season A opened this morning, and I managed to score a nice bird around 7:40 AM. The morning started out with deer snorting at the apparent stench I was emitting. After they took off, a hen showed up a sunrise and stuck around the decoys (hen and jake setup) for awhile. As she was about to leave, a second hen appeared, and the two of them decided to mill around for another ten minutes or so. Just then, I glimpsed two very large birds start to descend upon my decoy spread. When they were withing about 30 feet or so of the decoys, I realized they were a pair of immature bald eagles looking for breakfast. Thankfully, they decided something was wrong with their perspective "meal", and soared off without making a sound. As far as I know, the two hens remained unfazed throughout the entire ordeal. Anyway, seven more hens emerge from the treeline about 200 yards to my south and quickly made a beeline it to my spread. They were led by an extremely agitated and vocal bearded hen, who decided to lay the smack down on about three other hens as they approached the decoys. So, now the entire group of nine hens moved off to my east, but continued responding to soft yelping. Still no gobblers. Well, about ten minutes go by, and the hens again began returning to the decoy spread. I offered up a few yelps and purrs, and then a loud gobble sounds off to my south. Turning my head away from the hens, I spotted two large gobblers approaching my position. I yelped once and they decided to stop and strut. When they started approaching again, I shut up and let them continue. These guys were on a mission, and even as the group of hens migrated to my west, they continued to run straight for the decoys. And boy did they let the poor jake have it! With both of them completely distracted, I grabbed my shotgun, turned on the Tacticam and blasted the first one that decided to extend his neck. What a morning, and what a hunt! And I'll never forget those eagles! I actually was more than a bit nervous that those two might mistake me for something edible! A second post will include the closeups and score sheet.

[notsure]

The gobbler was weighed on a scale at Archery Headquarters, Rochester, MN.
The beard length was between 9.5 and 10" (depending upon what you define as the hairline, and how strong you pull on the beard to straighten it out), so I decided to be conservative and go with 9.5"

[zelmo1]

Nice chubby bird bro, congrats 

[camotoe]

Sweet last weekend for us , moved to a new spot along the Kissimmee river . One hen so far and a big black faced fox squirrel . Cool


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