TheArrowSlinger

I think it is an eastern with light tail feathers. They can vary quite a bit within the "species".

Friend got a gold colored one a couple years ago. Really neat... he has pics on website somewhere. I'll see if I can find them.

JoeA

The inner ring is supposed to be the best way to tell the difference, but...there is some variation within the sub-species. Rio's can vary a lot; some are hard to tell apart from Merriams.

I have a fan, almost identical to yours, from a bird I busted in 2003 northwest of Kona. Officially, we have Rio's, but there were "3doz wild turkeys from South Dakota" let loose in 1964.
Neither of those two sub-species are known for reddish tips on the inner tail feathers.

You might have to poke around for some information on the leg proportions of the diff sub-species to help. Rio's are supposed to be "leggier" than Easterns.

Here's a close-up of it.

Champlain Islander

Looks like an Eastern to me. Great bird.

gun870guy

Rios.. and Rio Hybrids all have that white in their tail as well

gun870guy

Kansas Eastern..


Rio Hybrid


Rio

Compton929

Thanks everyone I had one of my buddies dad take a look at it due to him being a Kansas Fish and game officer he said it is an eastern like most of yall said it was thanks everyone for the help and pics!!!

JakeGrice

thats an eastern, beautiful bird though without a doubt

JakeGrice

oops looks like you already figured it out. gratz on the bird

jk6140

This is one of the Rios I shot last week in Kingman county KS. I was told they only have "true" Rios. The outter fan is just as tan as the inner fan. It is just hard to see with the ply wood as a background. Nice bird by the way.