Show us the best birds you've taken....

[Gooserbat]

Here is heaviest, best beards and best spurs.  I don't have a pic of my best single beard 12.5".

[Marc]

I really do not have a whole lot to brag about.  Some of you boys have killed some nice birds though.
Where we hunt in California, we just do not see long spurs very often...  This bird had about 1" and 7/8" spurs, and is about as long as I generally see them.  I am told it is because of the rock country that wears down the spurs...

Often, I do not get a good look at the beard, and rarely get to see the spurs, cause of the tall grass that is often associated with the areas I hunt as well.  Killed this bird in one of my favorite places...  It is a steep canyon, and it is easy to run & gun, cause the banks run straight up and straight down on the road, so in general, if I cannot see the birds, they cannot see me...

[catman529]

It's not the big ones that keep me coming back every year...it's the memorable hunts, the birds that put on a show, or the ones that made me climb bluffs, wade creeks and creep through thickets to chase them.

But anyway. Here's my best one, killed him last year. He was also my heaviest bird, breaking 24 pounds, and I killed all of my heaviest birds last year as well as a triple beard that was a 2 y/o 

This was my first double beard and me and a buddy set up several different places till we finally called him in and I gave him a load of pellets.



http://youtu.be/7LfoSNn3wbQ


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[maytom]

This bird was my heaviest bird to date. Taken quite a few years ago. Little over 23 lbs.

[maytom]

This one was a shocker, he had 6 beards on him!!! Main beard was a thick 10 1/2", then he had 4 smaller sized 5 1/2" beards, and short stubby 1". Won the multi-beard contest that year.

[WNY Bowhunter]

My best is a tie between these two:

One from last year, he was only a 2 year old but had 5 beards...





MY banded bird from '12 that was at least 8 years old (1 3/16" spurs when banded in feb. 2007) and possibly the oldest known gobbler on record in NY!!!



I killed his brother with a consecutive band # four years earlier back in '08...



My wife's KY bird from last spring was the overall biggest typical gobbler that I've ever been part of killing...he was the heaviest (24.5#), had the longest beard (11") and longest hooks (1 3/8")...

[GobbleNut]

This is by far the best gobbler I have ever "lucked" into.  Eight-bearded Goulds I took in Mexico about ten years ago.

[tomstopper]

These are not my best birds (had pics of my SC bird when I was in the Marines but lost all my hunting pics when my dads house burnt) but some decent one's from last couple years:

Pic 1) Ohio bird 2015:24.8lbs, 1in spurs, 10 3/4in beard

Pic2) NY bird 2014: 22.4lbs, 10 1/2in beard & 1 1/4in spurs

[guesswho]

Some in random order.

[Cut N Run]

My heaviest so far and it was also the most turkey intense hunt I've ever had. April 14, 2007. He weighed 24 pounds, 11.75 inch beard, 1.25 inch spurs.



He gobbled from the roost at distance, and again about 250 yards, answering my calls.  Then, He went quiet for about 25 minutes.  He'd circled behind me, looking for the hen her heard.  His footsteps were so loud on the leaves right behind my tree that I thought it was a deer approaching.  I was bracing myself expecting a deer snort, but instead heard a PFftttt-VRRUMMMMMmmm from about 10 feet over my right shoulder.  It was so loud that it made my lungs vibrate.  He walked up right beside me, less than 3 feet away and looked at me hard for what seemed like 30 minutes, but was more like 90 seconds.  He was so close, I could have rocked up on my right butt cheek and touched the top of his head.  Reluctantly, he kept moving in front of me and when he crossed behind a few trees right close together, I brought the gun the rest of the way up.  Shot him at 13 yards.  It shakes my nerves loose just thinking about it.

Jim