Team 2 Tominators
03-19-2010, 08:19 AM
#72
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Elizabeth Colo. USA
Posts: 4,413
Here's a pic. from last spring back on my farm in KS. I had just shot my 2nd bird, he's just out of the pic. to the right and he knocked over the one decoy while flopping around after I hit him with the bullhead, but as you can see, there's a few turkeys back there.
03-19-2010, 11:36 AM
#75
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 655
Welcome to the winning team bigbuckspa!!! 
Happy to have you on-board!!!
Nice pic Howler - WOW - hard to swallow the jealousy here!!! DANG!!!
Car - exactly a month away!!! Indiana's season opens 5 days after yours... Can't wait!!!!
Kim
Happy to have you on-board!!!Nice pic Howler - WOW - hard to swallow the jealousy here!!! DANG!!!
Car - exactly a month away!!!
Indiana's season opens 5 days after yours... Can't wait!!!! Kim
03-19-2010, 06:25 PM
#76
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Circleville Oh
Posts: 966
Had a little fun tonight. After I got home I could see a few turkeys moving back in my woods. I was watching them with my bino and I could see this real tall tom coming out of the wood. He looked like he was twice as big as the 9 hens that I was watching. After the tom cleared the wood I started laughing. He must have had his beard break off. It looked like it was only 2". There was no way he was a jake. He looked like he would have 22 lbs or more. He stood twice as tall as the hens. Go figure lol
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03-20-2010, 07:01 AM
#77
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Elizabeth Colo. USA
Posts: 4,413
They can have their beards "busted" off. A buddy of mine shot a tom about 3 years ago that had spurs nearly 2" long, but only had a beard that was 2 1/2" long. The beard had a lot of thickness to it, so we just guessed that it got busted off sometime or another. That bird had the longest spurs that I have ever seen. He had it mounted, course, I would've too.
03-20-2010, 02:48 PM
#78
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
Remember that they can also have "beard rot" and when a Tom is infected with this the beard ends will be yellowish colored on the ends where it was the most fragile and broke off. I've seen it on a numbe of mature Toms.
03-20-2010, 02:54 PM
#79
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
When the kids got home from school yesterday we headed to the farm to let 'em make sure their Turkey cannon was still zero'd in and I also wanted to test some of the brand new Hevi-13 Magnum Blend loads, 3", 2oz, #5, 6, 7 .
All I can say is WOW!!! Talk about a turkey shreddin' round! I can't wait to see a Tom get attacked by a killer swarm of Magnum Blend ?!?
Here's a 40 yarder.... whats impressive is that it was fired by my 9 year old !!!
All I can say is WOW!!! Talk about a turkey shreddin' round! I can't wait to see a Tom get attacked by a killer swarm of Magnum Blend ?!?
Here's a 40 yarder.... whats impressive is that it was fired by my 9 year old !!!