How do you score a turkey? Differance between typical and non-typical?

.More than two Spurs and more than one Beard is a (nontypical)LOL heck i dont have a clue.....

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I think your joking, but there is a way of scoring turkeys. I think the NWTF website have a calculator that you just enter weight, beard and spur length and it gives a score.

add the weight, double the beard, and 10 times the average of the spurs.

Lets say you have a 20 lb turkey with a 10 1/2 inch beard and one spur at 1 1/4 inch and 1 spur at 1 3/4 inches (to make the math easier)

weight=........................................... .20
beard x 2=.........................................21
spur= [(1 1/4 + 1 3/4)divided by 2]x 10...15
.................................................. ..---
.............................................score 56

I couldn't find the "oficial" scoring, but I think this is one of the more common formulas.

Can someone confirm this for us?

Edited by - barefoot on 02/24/2002 22:43:45

Edited by - barefoot on 02/24/2002 22:44:56

The example bird that Barefoot used would score 71.0. Weight and beard formula used was correct. The spurs are scored separate. So 20+21+12.5+17.5. it's 10X for each spur.

Thanks, Homer

That's the part I was unsure of.