I finally got one. Not the double beard that I was after but it is a great turkey. It had an 12 1/4 inch beard. Not as heavy as I hoped but it still weighed a little over 17 pounds and it had 1 3/8 inch spurs. It is a great bird and I will fill ya' ll in with the story when I have a little more time, I have got to go clean and cook him! The pics wont turn out good but oh well, I only had my cheapo camera and no-one to take the pics.

That bad boy was carrying quite a paint brush wasn' t he!!!

Congratulations!

need picscongrats!

Nice one.
Congrats

Congratulations, Slatecall!! That is one impressive beard and set of spurs buddy! Definitely one to be proud of for sure.

congrats.......thats a heck of a beard he carried.....im sure it was draggin on the ground behind him...congrats! cant wait to read the story and see the pics! thats a big bird!!

Way to go Warren, Thats a nice bird..... Get some pics posted, I' d like to see that one.
You still got a couple of weeks to get the Double Bearded Bandit .

I can finally take the time to tell the story. I got out real early to get near the roost where I have seen several gobblers strutting in the river-bottom, so I could get a real good setup spot. This is nearly impossible because I cannot find somewhere with good cover, that doesn' t have a fence. When I finally get set up I am not in the greatest spot but it is decent. So I call and call at 9 toms that are fanned out in the draw, but they have hens with them so they will not budge no matter what. After an hour of silence from me because they won' t come the hens leave and I start calling agian and 4 toms start slowly coming my way. They hung up for awhile but after 2 hours they are finally in range and I shoot the biggest of the three. He had the biggest beard but the otherr 3 had some long beards also. It wasn' t quite dragging the ground but It is by far the longest beard that I have seen. I will have pics near the end of the season when I go to the big city to get my film developed, we don' t have any where near that develops film.

Awesome beard for sure!! Way to go!![8D]