Bird 3# Goes Down
03-27-2012, 12:53 PM
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Bird 3# Goes Down
Nothing special. Young two year old. 16 lbs 3 oz. 1/2 inch spurs and 8 inch beard. Killed him in down in the swamp. Kind of a flash hunt. Got him to gobble at a box call. Set up against a big tree. Yelped to him once on a slate and within a minute he was standing in front of me at 40 yards. This is the farthest shot I have taken with the Hevi-13 7's so far and let me tell you. They do just fine to 40. He went down like Marvis Frazier in the first round of the Tyson fight.
03-27-2012, 03:35 PM
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03-27-2012, 08:56 PM
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Goodness sake they are very generous in Bama, we get one little Tom in Indiana. They must have Turkeys on every corner and every acre of land down there.
03-28-2012, 07:30 AM
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Todd1700,I'm not sure how Indiana stacks up against other states Turkeys but 20lbs. plus is what I have seen myself and my friends harvest every year.My first was an 18 lb. Jake because my goal the first season was to call in any Turkey and drop one,this guy was the biggest of 4 Jakes and got to come home with me. We averaged about 22lbs on all our birds last year with 1" to 1 1/2 hooks and 10" beards. Like I said I don't know if this is average for all Eastern Turkeys or not.