Ok guys heres the scoop. I have some videos here and I hope the links work. I have been hunting my ass off but moreso taking a lot of video of others hunting. I have shot some pretty cool video I think. Here is the first video from open morning of the triple beard I shot with the bow. I'm videoing by myself so you have to forgive me a little. I had a group of birds come in and I was waiting for the last bird to make his way to me. He was the only bird in this group that was strutting or doing anything. I made a good choice. He ended up having three beards and inch and three eight spurs. I have the only pic of him that wasn't erased below. Man it pissed me off. He's in the freezer so I supposed I could get more pics of him if need be. Ok here's this hunt opening day in SE KS at about 0900.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cFT5741HaY
Here is a the video of my double beard bird from last week. Sorry I missed the kill shot. These two birds were coming right towards me and then skirted off the left. I ranged them at 41 yards and shot the double beard. I didn't know he was a double beard at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0yDF9YPUJk
Here is the video after I shot him. I didn't take any pics of me and him because I was hunting by myself. I hope this will suffice to allow the bird to be scored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXMNWV3KLqA
Ok here are some hunts from last weekend with my buddy and his girlfriend around the Topeka area. Man we saw a bunch of birds. It was just one of those days. Here is the first shot of them morning. She was braggin about her shooting, in walks a bearded hen.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlLIwmu7y8
This second hunt is about 55 minutes after the first miss on the hen. It was storming like hell when we got out of the truck that morning. The birds really came to life after the weather moved out. This video is a little lenghty but is awesome. She hammers this bird but my buddy has to finish him off. Check out what the fighting purr did to this situation. I have only had the fighting purr work one of two ways. It either scares the hell out of them and clears the field or it does what it did in this video. Shot number two on Saturday morning April 7th............ (I think my language might be questionable in this one sorry!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWhlmnRYog
This last hunt is awesome. We fooled with this bird for 2 hours before he manned up and came on in to get a piece of action. My buddy smoked him. I love it when they come in mad. I have never seen a bird walk sideways like this one does...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WONq_oyT_U
Now for some scores. Here is the only surviving pic of my triple bearded bird. He's laying on his other two beards and you can't hardly see anything. If we can't use him that's fine. He's a cool bird and in the freezer.
Here are my scores from both birds. Surely we will be able to use one.
The triple beard
20lbs
right spur 1 1/8
left spur 1 2/8
beard 1 10 1/8
beard 2 3 5/8
beard 3 1 5/8
Total score 20+11.25+12.5+20.25+7.25+3.25=74.50.
The double beard
23 lbs
Right Spur 1 3/8
Left Spur 1 1/8
Beard 1 9 7/8
Beard 2 3 7/8
Score is 23+13.75+11.25+19.75+7.75=75.50
Both birds easterns. Sorry for the lengthy post guys!