lets see some pics or share your info on your biggest gobbler ever! also time of day he was interred! :z-guntootsmiley:
18.5 lbs saturday morning at 6:55 am
21.5lbs in Greene county NY
I know there are a lot big birds out there
23lbs a couple of Saturdays ago in western NC.
PA: 24 pounds, 6 ounces. 3 miles from home! 7am
MO: 26 pounds, 9 ounces. Next to the Mark Twain NF. 7am. And it wasn't even the biggest bird of the hunt!
2009 NY season
24lbs kill time:58min 6:45 AM
24lbs 8oz kill time:2hrs10min 9:40 AM
Awesome Hunts..!
23 pound Pennsylvania bird
28.2 MO
dang guys! those are some good size birds! :you_rock:
sounds like most of you are getting them right when they fly down at first light, or shortly there after!
had a freind kill one just under 30
28-29 range
I've killed 2 at 25lbs in Ky. One was an a.m public land bird and the other last spring at about 4:30p.m in a hay field.
On that same property a kid killed a 25lbs bird during youth hunt, his first. A buddy killed a 27lbs gobbler 2 years ago and the owner killed a 29lbs gobbler one morning. That 29 pounder looked like a dang ostrich stretched out in the truck. Oh.. and my buddy called me two days ago and said he killed a 27 pounder on his place with his old full choke 20ga and #4's. We've got some fatty's in Kentucky.
23lbs about 9am maybe 10 its been a few years
22lb.PA. bird,11:30AM.,about 5 years ago.
last year 24.8 lbs -1 in spurs-8 3/4 in beard.....6:15 am
26lbs. 2oz. 12" beard 1 1/4" spurs
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25 lbs. western ky, located in crittenden county. shot the bird at 1:05 in the afternoon. had 9 1/2" beard and sharp 1" spurs. day ill defianely never forget spending it with my dad on a memorable youth hunt a few years back.
GA........20.5 Mid morning 9 AM
SC. 22.5...........morning, right off the roost. 7:30ish
I've had a couple around the 26lbs mark....both from Missouri. I can't remember the specifics, but one of them got himself dead about two minutes after flydown.
27# plus Tennessee
26 1/2# Iowa
I have 39 turkeys recorded in my journal, all weighed with a digital scale with the exception of the first couple. Heaviest ever was 24 lbs 2 oz on two different birds, one from MO that was a 2 year old and one from IL that was at least a 3 year old with 1 5/8" spurs. Every single bird was heavier until it was put to the scale.
I host a braggin rights contest for friends and make everyone guess before they weigh, almost every single one gets guessed a couple pounds higher than they actually are....especially if they get carried for any period of time. :toothy12:
26# PA fall bird around 8:30. 10.75 beard and 1.5 spurs. That one made me late for work :z-guntootsmiley:
23 1/4 from Ct, weight and beard length don't do much for me but big spurs take my breath away!
21# 9oz Newton County, GA taken 3-31-2011
Quote from: PANYHunter on April 26, 2011, 01:42:04 PM
26# PA fall bird around 8:30. 10.75 beard and 1.5 spurs. That one made me late for work :z-guntootsmiley:
NOOOOO! WORK made you late for HUNTING!! :z-guntootsmiley:
i couldnt imagine a 25+lb turkey. most of the turkeys killed around here in south carolina average 16-18lbs with the occasional 20-22 pounder mixed in. ive killed 20 something turkeys and my biggest came this year at 21.6lbs.... ive only killed two or three over 20.
West Ga. 25# in April 2008
with the exception of a few monster gobblers,
turkeys are like coyote when judging weight! they feel like a 30 pound turkey or 40 pound coyote but when put on a digital or true scale it is sometimes half of what your guess was. thats my opinion! now i know guys whom have killed 50 pound coyotes and 30 pound gobblers, but i personaly have not.
great stories guys, there sure are some biggins in ky!~
25 1/2 Wed. morning. I've killed two this year over 25lbs and 1 just over 20lbs--I have only hunted 4 mornings total with over a month to go. Feeling pretty good about this year!
I dont' remember anything over 23 and change. That would be from an Eastern in Southern IL.
23 lbs. 5 oz. in SW piedmont of NC during the last week of the 2005 season at 6:50 am. Hardest gobbling eastern I have ever heard.
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I have never weighed a bird that I have killed until this year. The one that I did weighed 21 pounds 6 ounces. So I guess I will have to go with that one
22-1/2# Pending state of maine record with a bow and arrow!(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x23/ryersonhill/CIMG5668Copy.jpg)
West Central WI 25lbs 3oz 12:35 PM
Put a young kid in my honey hole four years ago and he shot his first bird ever: 25 1/2 pounder 13.5 beard about 9:30 AM
Kid was never the same after that. Another perfectly good human being completely ruined by turkey hunting!
ps. I'm heading out with him in tow again starting next week!!!!
Well I have killed 28 Alabama gobblers, and only two stand out as special. Killed them back-to-back mornings in 2005. Only year I ever killed my limit of 5.
First : 23lbs, 11" beard, 1 3/8" spurs (5 year old bird)
Second: 22lbs, 10.75" beard, 1 3/16" spurs (4-5 year old bird)
I shot the first right at the break of daylight one morning after shooting the wrong bird the weekend before (three came in and I shot the smallest). My partner couldn't close the deal that morning on the other big fellow. Actually had them land in our laps that morning. Never made a call and they flew down at first legal light.
The second one, I went the morning after the first by myself and he gobbled only one time. Can't say I blame him he had seen his two compadres get lead poisoning. I knew where he was and where he wanted to go so I just kept purring and clucking untill 12:00 noon (sitting in the same place since 5:20) and I saw a gap between two cypress trees turn black. There he was strutting and lonely. He spooked at what I thought was about 35 yards and I let him have a face full of #5's out of the 20 gauge. He never flopped, just spread his wings and laid there. Then when I picked him up, he about carved me for Thanksgiving! Well after I got him outta my hands and a boot on him and him dead, I stepped it off. 47 loooong steps.
All the old timers told me I would never kill these two birds after I shot the 2 year old that was with them, and you should have seen the looks on there faces after I bought two sets of spurs and two long beards to church tat next Sunday morning to show them! I was only 16 at the time.
24lbs 6:25AM
24lbs weighed on produce scales, taken in MS
It was my first turkey and we had no clue how big it was. It had 1 1/4" and 1 5/16" spurs and we thought it was just a decent bird. We were eating him the next night. lol.
The bird had been strutting with about 20 hens and 2 jakes since the season started. Someone had actually missed the morning of the day I killed him. I bushwhacked the bird at around 5:30PM that evening when he was displaying for his hens.
Just wish we would have known how big of a bird he was at the time. Would of liked to have had him officially weighed.
Close to 40 birds later, the heaviest I have killed is 22lbs in Missouri.
And have taken 2 in Mississippi around 20lbs.
SC 23 LBS
19.5 here.
24lbs 3 oz.
Virginia
23 lbs on the dot. 10 1/2 inch beard
24 lbs. in nemaha county kansas,and 20lbs here in pa.
20.4 lbs biggest for me here in Louisiana
26lbs 8ozs in IL
Several that hit the 25 & 26 lb mark over the years but I have never had one hit that 27 lb mark yet.
13 lbs.
20.90 in n.y. a few years ago out of 53 beards on the wall between n.y. and pa.
Quote from: ryersonhill on April 28, 2011, 06:13:13 PM
22-1/2# Pending state of maine record with a bow and arrow!(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x23/ryersonhill/CIMG5668Copy.jpg)
Congrats man. Let us know if it turns out to be the record.
26 lbs 2 oz on digital scale at check station. Got him at flydown. He won me a steak too. After that most of them are 20 plus. NE Wisconsin.
23lbs.11oz. 11" beard 11/4" spurs here in VA. Right off the roost. During the 4th week of our 5 week season. This big boy had eluded me several times.
vaturkey :newmascot:
25 pounds 11.5" beard 1.250" spurs on one leg and 1.375" on the other one.
Eastern bird from kentucky
22lbs Killed in Kansas.
25.5 lb Eastern in MO weighed on the check station scale 2002.
23.25 lb Eastern in MI weighed on digital scale 2011.
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22pnds and 1 3/4spur and little under 1 3/4 spur on opposite leg. Took a total of 15min to kill him at 9am(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m596/houndstoothgamecalls/30065_135326043144875_100000024414828_437514_5834887_n.jpg).
21.4 lbs 1 1/8 in spurs 10 in beard
got it at 11:45am here in Pa
Hounds tooth, those are some nice HOOKS!!! Did it take you 15 minutes to kill that sucker cuz you were afraid of getting gutted by those spurs??!! lol Nice bird. :icon_thumright:
I could here him sharpening them as walked LOL. Didnt have a clue he had the jewelry!!!
Quote from: Houndstooth Game Calls on August 14, 2011, 11:29:40 PM
I could here him sharpening them as walked LOL. Didnt have a clue he had the jewelry!!!
Very impressive! A bird of a lifetime.
Quote from: ILIKEHEVI-13 on August 14, 2011, 11:56:29 PM
Quote from: Houndstooth Game Calls on August 14, 2011, 11:29:40 PM
I could here him sharpening them as walked LOL. Didnt have a clue he had the jewelry!!!
Very impressive! A bird of a lifetime.
WOW!!! That is awesome!! That's like a 200" buck.
22.5 pounds in 1993 which is an excellent bird for these hard scrabble mountains in far Western Maryland. It's tough for a turkey to make a living out here.
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24 3/4 11 1/2 beard 1 1/4 spurs Ledyard Conn.
Back to pg 2. PANYhunter I may take a firing for that one.
21.5 lbs. in Alabama. Most of these birds here are lean and mean.
Twentyfour pounder, 9 3/4" beard, short spurrs at only 3/4" Killed in2009.
Tom Black
Cantuckee
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21 pounder, 10inch beard, 1 inch spurs.
I've shot 2 over 29 pounds, one back in 2002 I think and one this spring. Both with a bow. One was at noon the other a few minutes after fly down.
29 lbs - Houston County Minnesota
20 lbs., 1 in spurs and 11.5" beard. Best weight and beard bird to date. April 3, 2010. Flew off the limb to 15 yards from my gun barrel.
28.3 11 3/4 in. beard an 1 3/4 spurs Smith co. Tenn. about 10 am
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23 pounds even. Third day of the Spring season ,10 am. Clinton County Pa. 2004. He was a smart one. I worked him for nearly two hours. Fooled him by scratching in the leaves!
23 lb this past spring killed on my birthday
24 lb. in MO about 5 years ago at 10 am. He was an old turkey with two beards and 1 1/4 spurs. No way of knowing sure if it was the same turkey, but I missed a gobbler the year before at that exact spot that had taken a lot of patience and a little coaxing to call in. Regardless, I like at least telling myself that I had exactedy revenge.
The smallest adult gobbler I have killed was a 13.5 lb. gobbler here in Arkansas about 12 or 13 years ago. He had a long, paintbrush beard and good spurs, but it was late season and he was poor from too much breeding and not enough eating. I had hunted him a couple times the week before and ended up connecting one evening about 5:30 pm. Earlier that week a friend and I had him at 10 steps, but he came in at a bad angle and the other side of a brush top.
21 pounds on middle tn wma. Killed him at 11 a.m
21.5 lbs
25 lbs, 12oz. this past Spring in Bedford County Virginia.
28lb 3oz Southeast Kansas 2009
23 lbs
26 lbs is my heaviest
22.8 pounds, Virginia.
23lbs
Here is king kong. 28lbs 4 oz. He wlked by a fence post right before I shot him and was only about 3" shorter than the post. I freaked out. We saw him the year before and figured he would go 25-26. He dwarfed the rest of the birds. Pay close attention to the pic and you can tell how massive his body is. reflex264
PS- yes he was wet when I shot him but dried out when we weighed him
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My first West Virginia spring gobbler was 23 1/2 lbs. I introduced him to my load of lead after fly down. 1964.
aint got one yet lol
over 25lbs...the scale we use for turkeys bottoms out at 25 and my largest Alabama gobbler bottomed it out.
Mine is a bird from Callaway County Mo. Just over 25 lbs, with a 12 1/2 beard and 1 1/4 spurs. I killed him at 12:45 pm (hunt until 1:00 in MO) on a friend's farm in 2009. My second heaviest was just under 25 lbs from Linn County, MO in 2010. Here is a picture of my 2009 bird.
20 lbs in Chenango County, NY 10/9/11 at 11:15 am. 10 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. Also, my first turkey.
22 lbs - 1 1/8" spurs - 10.5 beard
27lbs. 3oz. in Southeast Kansas
23 pounds... last day of an Alabama season a few years ago.
23 lbs in MS
Here you go. This was taken when we weighed that bird. We found out later that this scale was nearly 2oz light. I am still caling him 28-4.
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22 Southeastern Louisiana
25 lbs. in Lowndes Co., Al , it seems like it was around 7:00-7:30 around an hour and a half or more after daybreak. He had been nicknamed Boxcar Barney because of his size when viewed strutting in the open.
25 lb tn
23lb. 13oz. Northeast Alabama
Eastern archery kill bird - 10 3/4" beard , 1 9/16 spurs and 26.5 lbs. I won the Gander Mountain turkey pole with this bird !
26.8lbs SE MO
Shot a 23 pound-er on the 29th of May in Nebraska in 2010 and 2011. Last year, this Tom was in my 12 gauge sight 20 yards away in mid-May. All of a sudden, the two toms with him stepped on and spooked an unsuspecting baby fawn that was hiding in the grass. It was frustrating because it took two hours of calling to get them there. Luck changed. The next time he came in with a jake at 6pm at night. The hen that drew them in wouldn't pay any attention to the jake, so he walked away and then the Tom came in full strut. Initially, the hen obstructed my shot but he dropped like a sack of potatoes from 56 yards with one Federal Mag Shok #4. I don't who was more surprised, the Tom or me when i stepped off the distance a second time. By far, the longest shot I've ever made and the biggest Eastern harvested with a 7" beard and 1'' spurs.
25.1 and 25.4 Both harvested in 2002 on public hunting in Ky., both early season before they dropped their weight. They weighed them for you on their scale when you checked out .
24 lbs here in NY. Only had a 8 1/2" beard though. He toted 1 1/4" spurs though! ;D
26# in WI.
25 11 oz in VA in 1993 :funnyturkey: :drool: :drool:
26 1/2lb 11 1/2" Beard Indiana Bird 2:30pm
I have only shot Osceolas....and they are much smaller than yall's easterns haha
23 lbs and a few ounces. Thats actually surprising to me, because where i hunt, most two year olds are running 19 to 21 already. I know a few local guys that have taken a couple in the 24-25 range, though.
Oh btw, around 8:30 am on the season opener. Textbook hunt.
My first bird! I was a senior in high school. My buddy called in 3 hens and a strutting long beard accross a field. The bird was a pig of a 2 year old. 22# without the guts, 10" beard, 3/4" spurs. Pa bird. Have not shot one as heavy since!
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23lb 9oz hoss in T-Town Alabama
25 lbs in TN
TWO springs ago on the first day... 23lbs, 10 inches and 1 1/2...got one last season that was almost as big but had one of those racing stripe beards..
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This thread has me wondering if TN isn't producing the biggest easterns. In adition to my 28-4 monster that same year I killed a 25-3 bird. Last year I killed a 23-9. I heard about another 28+lbs Lincoln Co bird a few days ago. In 1986 there was a bird that broke the 30lbs mark killed here by a young boy. Makes me wonder. I learned a lesson with the 28-4 bird. If I ever am fortunate enough again to bust the head on another monster I will run to the nearest grocery store and officialy weigh it. That bird would be #1 in Lincoln Co and #4 in the state. The lessons we learn........reflexl
27 lbs killed in central KY at approximatly 10 am.
Wouldnt come to the call, so waited by a water hole untill he ventured my way.
Missouri 27 lbs. 11 1/2 inch beard 1 3/4 spurs
25 lbs. Indiana
My heaviest bird weighed 24 pds. 14 ozs. taken around 10 am. in SE Ohio in 1993.
Just shy of 24 taken in Adair Co. Ok back in 02.
My first bird was my biggest at 25lbs in 93 in mo.
This bird weghed 25 lbs. I killed one 2 years ago that weighed 27 1/2 same spot. Other bird weighed 23 all birds killed in Mo.
27.5 lbs, 12.5inch beard, 1.5inch spurs. Shot him 1 minuite after legal shooting hours started.
20lbs, killed him yesterday mornin around 8:00. It was my first turkey.
27lbs north mo. gobbler
24 lbs 4 long beards 1 3/4 spurs, will probably never top it. N.OK.
The one I had to tote a half-mile to the truck was the heaviest I ever killed, lol.
Father in law killed one in NJ on some farmland that was 26. I got one two weeks later there that was 23.5.
Largest ever was just over 25 pounds
The first bird I ever took was a 25.75 lb. with a 11 3/4" beard and 1 1/4" spurs! Still my best to date!
24 pound GA bird. This property consistently produced heavy birds. Many 20 + lbs. It was more rare to shoot one under 20 than over.
Last year I shot a 23 pound bird here in IL and the year before I shot a 24 pound bird in WI. I'm hoping to break 25 pounds one of these days!
Quote from: Kylongspur88 on April 24, 2011, 10:15:18 PM
I've killed 2 at 25lbs in Ky. One was an a.m public land bird and the other last spring at about 4:30p.m in a hay field.
On that same property a kid killed a 25lbs bird during youth hunt, his first. A buddy killed a 27lbs gobbler 2 years ago and the owner killed a 29lbs gobbler one morning. That 29 pounder looked like a dang ostrich stretched out in the truck. Oh.. and my buddy called me two days ago and said he killed a 27 pounder on his place with his old full choke 20ga and #4's. We've got some fatty's in Kentucky.
x2 on the kentuck fatty birds ;) my biggiest was 25.5 lbs and average between 21-24 pounds on all the birds ive harvested here. the biggest long- bearded/spurred turk ive killed was the smallest weight (21lbs) killed on public land for me. all my private land birds ive killed have been mostly 23-24 lbs
Tn: 25 lbs. And 24 lbs 6oz. I killed 1 in Ky. That was 2 lbs. 8 oz.
I had one tip the scales at just over 25lbs. Don't remember if it was 2 or 3 oz.
Here in Illinois most of the mature birds I kill are in the 22-26 pound range. Must be all the corn and beans they have access to.
Heath
27lb 9oz...last year in my home state of Iowa
25lbs, AR
24.5lbs, TX
My heaviest here at home was 21.5lbs.
22 lbs. Little after 1pm. 2 years ago
23.5 lbs. my first year hunting. He had a twin brother with him, almost identical. This was in south central Wisconsin pretty close to the Illinois border.
24 lbs 1st solo hunt in 01.....killed 20 something more but rest between 18 and 22 lbs..all Tennessee
Over 26 lbs., have taken quite a few in the 23-24 lb range. All were in NE Kansas.
Some of these turkeys are so big I can't pick up my laptop!!!
29.23 Lbs southern Illinois 4/2009 8.35 am ....