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Started by woodsrunner, May 04, 2016, 02:50:27 PM

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woodsrunner

May 04, 2016, 02:50:27 PM

  My son got his tom yesterday morning.

  Mature bird 19#; 9 1/2" beard; no spurs, no even a lump or a spot to show where the spurs should be.

  Odd.

silvestris

#1
May 04, 2016, 03:07:27 PM
Not so very.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer."  Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game

mgm1955

#2
May 04, 2016, 04:28:35 PM
Happens more than people think.

Gooserbat

#3
May 04, 2016, 06:55:04 PM
Just happens. 
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

tomstopper

#4
May 04, 2016, 07:07:38 PM
Does happen sometimes. Just got girly legs lol

Dr Juice

#5
May 04, 2016, 07:10:41 PM
Post some pics.

renegade19

#6
May 04, 2016, 08:29:23 PM
First one I ever killed was like that except beard was even longer.  Not a nub of any kind on either leg.  Called one in for my buddy, his first bird, exact same thing.  I guess it's genetics?

surehuntsalot

#7
May 10, 2016, 09:16:41 PM
congrats
it's not the harvest,it's the chase

Strick9

#8
May 10, 2016, 09:25:06 PM
I would certainly not call it odd but would call it disappointing.
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Greg Massey

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May 10, 2016, 09:31:11 PM
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