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What is your smallest Tom wieight wise
Started by turkeyfoot, February 20, 2016, 07:19:25 PM
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TauntoHawk
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#15
February 20, 2016, 10:44:12 PM
17ish but he beat on my Jake like a big boy
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#16
February 20, 2016, 11:36:46 PM
In 2002 I killed a mature tom that weighed 15.5 pounds and had a 11.5" beard! Longest beard to date.
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#17
February 21, 2016, 12:21:06 AM
17 lbs. 1 3/8" spurs
have killed a jake that weighed 2 lbs. more in north MO.
they don't weigh them anymore or have check in stations.
Friend of mine killed one 14 lbs with 1 5/8 spurs while hunting with me, neat looking bird
looked like an old old ridgerunner.
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#18
February 21, 2016, 07:21:36 AM
15lbs eastern, 11"bd, 1 1/4"sp first of May several yrs ago. He still made the ground shake when he gobbled..
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#19
February 21, 2016, 08:16:51 AM
I killed one about 20 yrs ago that weighed 12 1/2 lbs. But he had a 12 ' beard and 1 3/8 spurs! He didn't look very healthy, we didn't eat that one...
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#20
February 21, 2016, 08:24:35 AM
14 lb Osceola with 10" beard and 1 1/8" spurs
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#21
February 21, 2016, 08:32:33 AM
May 2008 shot a 16lbs tom with a 10 3/4" beard and 1 1/4" spurs
mikejd
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February 21, 2016, 08:41:19 AM
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: February 21, 2016, 09:36:59 AM by mikejd
Mine is 17 but my dad on the other hand. His best Tom was actually his lightest bird'
He shot a brute 12" thick paint brush beard 1 3/8 hooks but the bird weighed in at 14 lbs.
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February 21, 2016, 08:46:16 AM
15 1/2#, he came from the northcentral bigwoods of PA. Our camp killed several longbeards that year under 16#, including one that was just under 14#.
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February 21, 2016, 08:54:29 AM
Last year I killed one with 1 5/8 spurs that weighed 14.5 lbs he was the dominant tom in the area...he would gobble decent on the roost but would hush when he flew down.. that was in mississippi
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#25
February 21, 2016, 09:52:22 AM
My lightest weighed 15 lbs and had 11 1/2" beard and one spur that was 1 3/8 " long . The other was broke off. No feathers on his belly. I hunted him for 3 weeks and he would shut up if he heard any call I tried. I ended up setting up on a food plot close to where he was rooster and I just scratched leaves for 2 hrs before he flew down and came in the plot silent. He was covered in bird shot and a couple of his toes were broke. Old Mississippi bird.
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February 21, 2016, 09:55:26 AM
Killed a southwest mississippi Eastern in 1994 that barely tipped the scales at 14 pounds. Had a thick 11" beard. He had a nub spur on one leg and a 1-3/16" spur on the other. I think most of my birds that I have killed down here average less than 20#. The heaviest was right at 24lbs. And I have killed way more than my share of gobblers.
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#27
February 21, 2016, 10:10:36 AM
I have a very old and rusty, spring-operated scale,...similar to what a lot of the guys in the contest use to weigh their birds,...and I have never weighed a bird with it that was under 25 pounds!
I have weighed a few on a digital scale, though, that weighed in around 15.
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#28
February 21, 2016, 01:12:32 PM
13#,mature bird.Its not uncommon for a swamp turkey on public land to only weigh 12-14# by end of spring.Private land birds tend to be a bit heavier due to supplemental feeding.
kyturkeyhunter4
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#29
February 21, 2016, 01:41:04 PM
I killed a mature tom at Land between the lakes in ky that just weighed 14 pounds with a 11 inch beard. The smallest mature tom I ever killed in Kentucky by far.
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