Bird down! A Jake on steroids. Thought it was a long beard. Came in off the next property gobbling, and didn't sound like a Jake gobbling at all. Coming off that property, I couldn't see the bird til he was 35 yards away. Never went into strut after coming through the bar wire fence, and grass was over knee deep, so I couldn't see the beard. Shot him at 15 yards...head turned straight to jelly!
I'll post pics later, but here are the stats:
Beard - an extremely thick 5.5"
Weight - 18.8 lbs
Spurs - rt-0.5" left-0.675"