RE: The quest for 80.
Other than on here, Ive never even heard of scoring a turkey, Ive taken some great gobblers in my life, and a couple that will go 70+, although I have nothing but the beards left and the memories, I never put much stock into the spurs except the last few years, but my heaviest bird weighed 27lbs, and I have 2 26s and several 23-25lb birds. I have always hunted our family farm, and all but 2 of my birds were 20+. I wish I still had the measurements of the spurs and weights all together so I could score some of them. We do have some fantastic birds here in Missouri.. I wonder if scoring the turkeys is a lot like scoring deer, I know of so many that are huge, and will make record books, but dont know of any that were actually entered into the books. Also when talking of typical and non-typical, is nontypical a multi-bearded bird?? I got pics of one a few years ago with 4 big beards on him, I have tons of pics of him, for a few years, but have only had one opportunity to kill him,, but he came in with two other birds and they ended up getting head on to me, and moving around a bunch, and I shot the wrong bird[&:]so he got away that time. What kind of scores are great for nontypicals?