I went out to go hunting for a 3hr hunt this morning which is our opening day..!! About time it has been a long wait in coming.. The turkeys answer pretty decent for me early in the morning and then just stopped right up..I waited for a little while and then decided to move on. So I decided on another spot to huntin. While there I saw a turkey with a beard coming threw the bushes and tall dead grass. It turned and started running.I could see the beard at every so often as it went the other way. So i hauled up and ahot. The rest is history sort of to speek. I shot the bearded bird and when I went up to check it out I soon realized it was a hen.. A bearded hen, she was sporting a 7 1/4 inch beard.