all the gobblers that I have taken weight more in gobbler season in the spring than the ones I take in the fall season.by several lbs.
that may well be that they have been eating all the mast in the fall and have saved it up to live off of in the spring.
durning the start of the gobbler season they are heavy , then in the late part of the season , they have lost a lot of weight.

usually in the fall season in Fl. the mast haven't fallen yet and they are smaller because of the long hard dry summers.
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