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What was your biggest gobbler-How long was the beard?How much did he weigh?How long spurs?
Mine 10in beard.weighed 22lbs.and i forgot spurs.

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28#Pound eastern... 9 inch beard... 1 1/4 spurs.

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My biggest turkey so far is a 22# gobbler with a 10" beard and 1" spurrs. Shot him ata sportsmens club right up the road from my house. People were stunned that there was one that big runnin around on the hillside.(thats ahugeturkey for my area)

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26lbs, 11" & 8" beards, 1 1/8 spurs, taken in MO in 2005.

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Thats a nice mount you got there!!!! Great Birds guys...

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Great Bird!

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My biggest and first gobbler was a 9 inch beard with 1 1/2 inch spurs and 26 pounds. Shot him outside of Mount horeb wisconsin.

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Heres my biggest, he's small but he's only my 2nd tom: 19lbs, 10" beard, 1" spurs

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nice birds you got there.

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My biggest was 25 lbs., 11" beard and 1 3/8" spurs.

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My heaviest is 22.5 lbs that was a PA bird
Biggest beard is a tie at 10 5/8 4 times 2 in PA 1 in Florida and 1 in Missouri
Longest spurs were 1.25 3 times 2 in PA and 1 in Florida.

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My best was this past spring. An Eastern, 22.5 pounds, 10 7/8" beard and a matched set of 1 7/16" spurs.

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20 lbs. 11 1/4paint brushand 1 1/8 spurs
Dan

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12" beard tied 5 times this last spring. 25 pound eastern bird is biggest, and one actually had 2" spurs. ;):D ok bout 19 lbs 8 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs.

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25 lb. 10 inch beard 1 1/4 spurs

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Thats an awsome mount. Did u do it yourself?

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My biggest thus far scored 71. He was 22.5 lbs and had a 10.5 inch beard and 1 3/8 inch spurs.

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Nice birds guys, well i have only got one and it was a hen, but it was a big one

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My biggest gobbler was taken last year, 5th season in Wisconsn. The Tom weighted 23 lbs, but had three (3) beards. 10.5", 6.5", and 4.5" He also had 7/8" spurs. I will round up some pictures and show the three beards.

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I've taken fat birds with small beards and small spurs, Fat birds with small beards and good spurs, Skinny birds with big beards and small spurs and skinny birds with small beards and big spurs, big birds with big beards and No spurs,they are all trophies in my eyes.

The heavest bird was a KA Rio that made the scales show 24.5 Lb but no deal on the beard and spurs.

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thats one fine way of putting it Adrian

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Thank you but no i had it done and after looking at it i think im goin to try and do it myself this year it didnt look all to complicated.

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Heaviest bird was just barely under 24 lb, longest beard went 12 1/4" and thick, and the longest spur was 1 1/2" with the other side broken off at around 3/4". Too bad I've never killed one bird that had all of these characteristics. Honestly I'm with the camp that thinks they're all trophies, though. Scoring turkeys will lead us down that slippery slope that deer hunting has gone and you'll begin to hear stupid statements like...
We don't kill anything with less than a 12 in beard... Don't shoot that 19 lb 2yr old, let him grow up some... That would've been a nice bird next year... Dang, he only had a 9 in beard...

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23#
11 3/4" beard
LS: 1 1/2" RS: 1 5/8"

First turkey I ever killed. Shot him on my 18th birthday, April 19, 2001.

I killed my 30th bird this past spring and have yet to best that first one. I have killed birds with longer beards, and have killed birds that weighed more, but as far as overall size and quality of all the NWTF scoring aspects, he is #1 for me still.

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I shot my best gobbler this past spring with black powder. 11" beard, 1 1/2" spurs and 20 lbs. I shot it Memorial Day. Earlier in the spring he had 2" spurs and weighed a few pounds more. He was in my son's yard everyday breeding the hens. The unique thing about this gobbler is that he has six white barred tail feathers in the center of the tail. We have been after this bird for over four years.

Tom

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My buddy shot a 20.5 lbs, 10 inch bird in San Diego last year. Yep, you read it right, San Diego...

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wow weird! san diego?

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First and only.... 24 lbs 10 1/2 beard.... spurless.

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two birds inTN with 1 and half in spurs,,11 in beard on one and 13 in on the other ..both around 20 ibs.

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18lb 9and half inch beard Pike county PA

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This is a follow up to my previous post. Here is the 3 bearded turkey I shot - which is my biggest.

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wow thats so cool.

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It was the first bird I ever got eastern 22" 12 3/4 " beard and 1 3/4 spurs. Taken many since then may never see another bird like that, but thats we keep huntin

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I got my biggest bird last season, eastern, 21 pounds 4 ounces, 10 3/4 inch beard, 1 1/2 inch and 1 5/8 inch spurs

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My first Gobbler ever #19, 91/2 in. bread, 1 1/2 spears,

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My biggest was 25 lbs and had a 11 and 3/8 in beard with spurs just under 1 and 1/2 in. Heres my best trophy. 23 lbs and had two matching 8 1/2 in beards taken opening day in NY last year.

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Mine was in 1997 - 11 1/4" beard, 1 9/16" matching hooks, 23.5 pounds. I doubt I ever kill a higher scoring natural bird. Rough sounding gobble on that guy.

A couple years ago, I killed a bruiser during the last week of the season - 20 pounds, 1 5/8" hook on one side, the other was broken at 3/4. Beard broken off evenly at 6". Lots of loose skin in the head - and I'm sure he was pushing 23-24 pounds on opening day. I should have had him mounted - could have been my best bird ever if he was still in one piece, and I'd have gotten to him earlier. This guy couldn't even gobble anymore - sounded like he was hoarse. I only heard him gobble once, and it was at about 15 yards.

Been through a lot of turkeys between, before and since those two, but those were the truemountain monarchs.

Man, I am getting turkey fever - big time. I can't wait to hear that first gobble of 2007.

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Here is a link to the Oklahoma records...a 30 pounder has the record!
http://www.oknwtf.org/node/59

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About 25 lbs was my biggest. He was an eastern with 1" spurs. Shot a Rio that was about 20lbs (nothing special) but he has 1 1/2" spurs. Put them on my duck lanyard.

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my biggest was a 28 pound rio from San Diego California. it had a 10 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs.