My family's land is in the northwest corner of Monroe County. To this day an average mature gobbler weighs about 17 lbs. My father said he killed plenty mature birds when he was a young man that didn't weigh but 13 or 14 lbs. He said if you walked up on one in the woods and spooked it there was none of this running start to get off the ground stuff. He said they would leave the ground like a quail. LOL!


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