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Oklahoma Rio dies during confrontation with ugly turkey hunters!

Started by Gooserbat, April 11, 2020, 09:47:42 PM

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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.

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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

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
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Gooserbat

Quote from: Sir-diealot on April 11, 2020, 09:51:29 PM
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.

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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Sir-diealot

Quote from: Gooserbat on April 11, 2020, 09:57:55 PM
Quote from: Sir-diealot on April 11, 2020, 09:51:29 PM
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.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

John Koenig:
"It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream."

Gooserbat

Call me sometime after season and I'll put you in contact with someone.
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Sir-diealot

Quote from: Gooserbat on April 11, 2020, 10:31:08 PM
Call me sometime after season and I'll put you in contact with someone.
Sounds good, thanks.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

John Koenig:
"It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream."

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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!
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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.

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