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Old 03-27-2007, 07:08 AM   #1
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Default Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

Also what did it weigh. My grandpa shot one two seasons ago that weighed over 24 lbs and had FOUR beards one 9 inches and the other three were six inches!
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Old 03-27-2007, 07:14 AM   #2
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

Sorry for the typo I meant to say beards not birds...can you tell I've got them on my brain?
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

Two was the most I've seen on one tom that my friend got with a bow.
We where both hunting and I was calling for him when the big tom came in , he had one beard that was 11 1/2 in. long and the other was 8 3/4's.
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Old 03-27-2007, 07:28 AM   #4
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

My buddy shot one with 5 beards but i think the longest was probably about 6 inches. I personally have never seen the beards get very long on multiple bearded beards.
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Old 03-27-2007, 07:36 AM   #5
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I was very lucky over the years to take two multi-bearded gobblers.
One had 6 beards, and one had two!! The six bearded one had a nice thick 10 1/2" main beard followed by a 5", three 5 1/2", and a short stubby 1", I took him right at the end of our season here in NY back in 96'.
The double bearded one was also a close finish in NY as well, 5-30-03. Both birds weighed less than 18 lbs. Here are the pic's of those two birds. Won the multi-beard contest back then with that guy!!



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Old 03-27-2007, 07:37 AM   #6
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Double bearded gobbler

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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

The Oklahoma record is 7 beards: http://www.oknwtf.org/node/59
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

I swatted turkey number 30 last spring and nay a one had more than your standard issue single rope. Heaviest weight of a bird I have taken is right at 23 lbs, and hunting in the east, I doubt I'll ever best him by much.

A friend killed a bird that had 6 beards (I think he took it in Kentucky). One real thick rope, with 5 skinny, but all individual beards. Here is a link to the picture.

http://www.turkeyhuntinginc.com/images/6beardedgobbler.bmp

Turkeys with multiple beards seem to be like non-typical bucks, just all depends on genetics. One place might have a ton of them, while a mile down the road you will never seen the first one with two beards.

The easterns in the midwest (IA, IL, OH, MO, etc) seem to weight a heck of a lot more than the easterns around the Atlantic. Probably the colder weather in the winter. Seems like a lot of birds out there average around 22-24lbs with 25+ not being terribly uncommon. In VA, anything over 22 is a monster, most 3 y.o. birds weigh between 18 and 20 lbs.
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

Most beards that I have personally seen is just two.
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Default RE: Whats the most birds you've seen on a turkey?

The most beards I have ever shot was a 3 bearded bird....below. The bird weighed 23 lbs

At cabelas, I seen a 7 bearded bird mount.




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