how do you determine a good turkey, beard, spur, or overall weight?
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how do you determine a good turkey, beard, spur, or overall weight?
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I generally try for a bird with a 10"+ beard, there are so many birds around here (I'm furtunate I know) that we can afford to let the jakes get big, and be patient for a good tom. I have yet to score a bird with my bow, that's my plan come April 20th here in MI.
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For us older turkey hunters it is spur lenght hands down, beards seldom get much over 11 inches due to wear and tear. A corn fed tom can get very heavy but age gives him spur lenght! Big, long, hooked and sharp spurs will belong to the older boys. We call them a limb hanger down here in the south. A bird which will hang by his spurs from a tree limb.
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Reply to MSM Lyingby 99explorerRock should have said "credible evidence."
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