ORIGINAL: Bigbucksnl

Thanks for your comments Jason.

We had a professional hunting guide of many years at the ranch when I brought this bird in and he right away said it was a hen and made the statment he had never seen anything in his life such as this. I relayed my story on how I killed this bird and the fact that all the other birds where hens, as I had plenty of time to watch and pick as they where at and around the feed pen for several minutes beofore I chose this bird because of the lengthy beard. Several others in the camp with much more knowledge about wild turkeys and turkey hunting than myself all felt this was a rare bird and infact deemed the sex a hen.
The day before another hunter had a group of about 20 to 30 gobblers in and around his feed pen and killed two..these gobblers looked nothing like this bird at all!!!!

The pics I listed don't do this bird justice as they make her/him look much darker than he/she really is. I have killed many hens and gobblers over my 31 years of deer hunting and I say again, I am primarally a deer hunt by trait, but this bird definetely looked upon killing it like a hen, and does not look like any gobbler I have ever seen or killed!!

I trully appreciate all the comments and congrats on this bird!!

Take care and Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Big Larry