Foo, The winter is hard on the trophy of the Turkey hunter. Beards tend to be cut by the ice in the snow and it is very common to have Toms with Ice balls hangin from the ends of there beards. Sometimes these balls get stepped on when feeding and flyup' s to the roost and it freezes to the branch and the beard pulls from the breast.I have seen alot of beardless birds in this part in the spring season. The thing that puzzles me is in the Reg' s it states ( 2 Bearded Turkey' s) and hunters still shoot the birds, because it Gobbles...BT