Multiple Beards
02-01-2005, 06:33 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 2,820
RE: Multiple Beards
I was fortunate to have taken only two multi-bearded birds over the years. First one was back on 5-28-96, and this guy had 6 beards total!!! A main beard length of 10 3/8" along with a 5", 3 - 5 1/2", and a short stubby 1". Weight wise he only went 17 lbs.
Here's a pic of that bird.
My second multi-bearded gobbler was taken back on 5-30-03, another end of the season gobbler here in NY. He had a 9 3/4" main beard along with a 8" secondary one. Weight wise he went 16.9 lbs. Just goes to show you, after almost two months of runnning around and mating, gobblers will loose almost 5-6 lbs of body weight near the end of the season!! Here's a pic of that bird.
Here's a pic of that bird.
My second multi-bearded gobbler was taken back on 5-30-03, another end of the season gobbler here in NY. He had a 9 3/4" main beard along with a 8" secondary one. Weight wise he went 16.9 lbs. Just goes to show you, after almost two months of runnning around and mating, gobblers will loose almost 5-6 lbs of body weight near the end of the season!! Here's a pic of that bird.
02-02-2005, 08:36 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Calif
Posts: 1,894
RE: Multiple Beards
I took this guy 3 years ago !Its a quad,actually its the second 4 bearded gobbler I've been fortunate to harvest!I've been pretty lucky bagging several multiple bearded birds over the years!
02-02-2005, 09:15 AM
#15
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: La Grange, TX
Posts: 324
RE: Multiple Beards
I shot one that had double beards around 8 inches. Never measured them though.
Was with another hunter in camp that shot one with 9 beards!!! By the time we saw them he had cut them off and I suspect they got thrown away by now. Thats been a long time back. No one in camp could believe he would not mount the bird to show them off. What a rarity. What a friggin idiot. And it seems its those folks that don't care that stumble into stuff like that.....
JEff
Was with another hunter in camp that shot one with 9 beards!!! By the time we saw them he had cut them off and I suspect they got thrown away by now. Thats been a long time back. No one in camp could believe he would not mount the bird to show them off. What a rarity. What a friggin idiot. And it seems its those folks that don't care that stumble into stuff like that.....
JEff
