Ok I scored this morning and sent jrbsr a message and the measurements. Can someone help me out what I need to do. I will post the pictures here.




This bird was 23 1/8 lbs, 8 1/2 inch beard and had no spurs. I have never seen a tom that had no spurs. It was a Merriam.

nice bird Neb. glad to see you scored. if you hunt in an area that is very rocky most typically with the Merriam's they will have very short spurs because they wear them down on the rocks. there are no spurs at all?

here is a link on NWTF that is a calculator on scoring your bird just fill in the blanks.

great job thanks for sharing. where are you hunting? how many can you take?

http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/turkey_score.html

Great job neb! Too bad it had no spurs, I have heard of turkeys having no spurs just havent seen one until now. Get Lars to give you one of his sets from his turkey with double spurs lol. How did you get that fan to stay open in your pics? Thats pretty cool. When you get a chance tell us how it all went down. Go get another one. Again congrats

Well it looks like 39.0078 is the score I guess I didn't help much but what can I say. I believe that is right with no spurs it didn't score well at all.
For the story it went down like this. I found out Sat. morning where I set the blind up was about 300 feet from there roost tree's. So this morning I walked in far enough to watch the tree's and waited for them to fly down. I know that they go to water which is away from where I set up the blind so I got to the blind and got decoys set up and settled in the blind. I started to call and the hens started to talk back. Everytime I called they (hens) started talked like no other. It sounded like a chicken yard down there. Any way I knew they would be coming soon or later. Sure enough here comes 4 hens and this tom. The rest is history. This roost tree has only toms in it the last 2 days. Is that a common thing that the tom's are by themselves??? There was 10 both days and no hens to be seen. I hens start talking and then with in 10 min. or so the tom's start to fly down. These toms never sounded off once in fly down or in the roost. I heard 3 gobbles from differant birds in differant areas. I was watching these with bino's and never once did they gobble.

SB I just set it up tight to the sage and the wind was out of the north and it stayed there fine. I always hunt alone and have done this a lot. They just seem to fall open in the fan shape any way.

Lars this bird had no spurs what so ever. And yes I have taken birds here in rocky country that the spurs where just nubs and maybe an 1/8 inch long at best. they wear them right off. Those mountain turkeys are a hard bird to hunt. Very very smart in my opionon.

I have one more question?? I do have another tag but if I use this score and get a better bird can I use that score from the second bird. I know you can just use one bird but if I use this as a score can I replace the score with my second bird???????

Congratulations neb,
Your turkey scored
Your score is 23.125 + 0 + 0 + 17 = 40.125
Way to go.

I have one more question?? I do have another tag but if I use this score and get a better bird can I use that score from the second bird. I know you can just use one bird but if I use this as a score can I replace the score with my second bird???????

Yes you can.
Go get a big one.

Good Luck.
Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I got my fingers crossed and toes crossed for you. Now get out there and kick some you know what!!!!!!!! Thanks for the info.

jrbsr,

here are some updated photo's of my Ocellated showing what could be a 5th spur. NWTF is saying it is a "jake spur" and a biologist that studies the Ocellated and actually took these pictures and is studying my bird but was not aware of the extra growth until after he had the bird seems to think it could be an extension of a leg scale. so at this point until a biologist actually looks at it physically I don't believe we should count it as an extra spur. here are the photo's make your own conclusion.