WY Success - Bird with leg band & transmitter

[TauntoHawk]

thats a special bird, congrats

[LX_Trkyhntr]

Congrats on a once in a lifetime trophy!!

[pullit]

Nothing like icing on the cake!
Congrats

[Beretta686]

Very cool

[WyoHunter]

He was shot on public ground in the Black Hills NF.

[The Waterfowler]

From what I hear from the man that started a project like this in the southern Black Hills there is still some research being done.  As you know Merriam's are great travelers. His project ended a couple of years ago and this isn't one of his. This bird I killed was 14 miles from where he was last located two days before.  He told me that he had one travel from the southern part of the Hills 55 miles into Wyoming.

[WiLL B]

Very Cool!!

[woodchip]

That's an awesome bird!

[WyoHunter]

Here's an update on my turkey:
I talked to the graduate student in charge of the project (Gobbler Mortality) about my gobbler. It was trapped and banded and transmitter fitted on Feb. 11, 2011 about 4 miles from where I killed him. One hundred gobblers were branded for this study by him and so far 23 have been reported killed. He said the harvest has been up substantially since they started selling extra tags for this area. He said brood counts were average the past two summers. He's a MS student attending South Dakota State University and he's doing the study in cooperation with the WY G & F.

[trkycaller]

Nice!!

[Uncle Bucky]

4 miles,  wow, makes me reconsider where the birds in my area get around to

[ncturkey]

Cool trophy.

[Spring Creek Calls]

That's like a turkey hunter's dream! Thanks for sharing all the info!

[nannas guide]

That is awesome, and the greatest thing about the whole story is that if people haven't been researching turkeys and transplanting turkeys we wouldn't have the hunting oppurtunities we have today.
Did the student want the transmitter back?