Oklahoma Rio dies during confrontation with ugly turkey hunters!

[Gooserbat]

This guy covered close to 500 yards in about 5 minutes and got shot at 35 yards.  Watched him trot across the field all the way.

[Sir-diealot]

By the title I thought for sure it was a prophetic premonition of my trip to OK next Spring! Congratulations to you, nice looking bird. Were you in the Panhandle? Looks like a Merriam's

[Gooserbat]

By the title I thought for sure it was a prophetic premonition of my trip to OK next Spring! Congratulations to you, nice looking bird. Were you in the Panhandle? Looks like a Merriam's

Nope I was in the central part of the state.  Some of our rios are more blonde.

Here's one I killed seven or eight years back.

[Sir-diealot]

By the title I thought for sure it was a prophetic premonition of my trip to OK next Spring! Congratulations to you, nice looking bird. Were you in the Panhandle? Looks like a Merriam's

Nope I was in the central part of the state.  Some of our rios are more blonde.

Here's one I killed seven or eight years back.

Oh, okay, I did not know that. I know ya'll have Merriam's in the panhandle so when I saw the whitish look to him I thought maybe you had been up there. My trip my be off for next year now, guy that was supposed to guide me got in some trouble with the law.

[Gooserbat]

Call me sometime after season and I'll put you in contact with someone.

[Sir-diealot]

Call me sometime after season and I'll put you in contact with someone.

Sounds good, thanks.

[Tom007]

Great bird, great job......

[Yoteduster]

Congrats on a nice bird

[Greg Massey]

Congrats nice bird.

[tomstopper]

Congrats on a beautiful gobbler

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[GobbleNut]

Pretty gobbler, Sam.  Sure is light for a Rio, but that just goes to show how much variation can occur in the subspecies. 

[dzsmith]

Rio I killed last spring in Oklahoma was very light like that, and from my understanding most in the area I was in are too. Beautiful bird sam!!! love it when they come all the way like that!

[timberjack86]

Good looking bird! Congrats!!

[eggshell]

attached is a photo of me and my buddy in Oklahoma 2010 with my double and a bird he killed. It shows the variation of colors even in a small area.

[SteelCityArcher]

Nice work! You were right about the ugly hunters part.