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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
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03/25/17 01:24 PM
03/25/17 01:24 PM
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Tuscaloosa, AL
Moodyc24
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I killed one two years ago in Kansas that was 26 lbs 5 oz on one scale and 26lbs 3 oz on another. Biggest I've ever killed.
2017 and 2018 Turkey contest champs! Back to Back!!
It's a damn disease is what it is !
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: BrentM]
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03/25/17 01:25 PM
03/25/17 01:25 PM
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Tuscaloosa, AL
Moodyc24
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8 point
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Didn't somebody on here say they killed one last year that weighed like 29 lbs or something? N2Turkeys did.
2017 and 2018 Turkey contest champs! Back to Back!!
It's a damn disease is what it is !
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: wareagle22]
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03/25/17 01:26 PM
03/25/17 01:26 PM
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alabaster al.
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10 point
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Most of the 20+ pounders never see a set of scales IMO. I agree X2
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
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03/25/17 02:19 PM
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Brierfield
Beadlescomb
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Old Mossy Horns
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Isnt a true eastern male turkey 15-16lbs? These killed now are just fed better and cross bred with other breeds over the years?
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
#2069545
03/25/17 02:42 PM
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AL
Gobble4me757
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12 point
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Where I hunt in north bama, our average mature bird weighs 24 lbs...I killed a 26 and the guy I go with killed a 28lbr...idk but the birds are huge there
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Beadlescomb]
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03/25/17 03:17 PM
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Jackson County
BrentM
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Mr. Turkey
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Jackson County
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Isnt a true eastern male turkey 15-16lbs? These killed now are just fed better and cross bred with other breeds over the years? They are like folks. Come in all sizes. I've seen Jackson county mature Toms anywhere from 14-24 lbs
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: BrentM]
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03/25/17 05:49 PM
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Montgomery, AL
jbc
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Isnt a true eastern male turkey 15-16lbs? These killed now are just fed better and cross bred with other breeds over the years? They are like folks. Come in all sizes. I've seen Jackson county mature Toms anywhere from 14-24 lbs Thought same "How much does a human man weigh"? 175-200 But you have some 600lbers
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: turkey247]
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03/26/17 12:34 AM
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South of 20/North of 10
North40R
14 point
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14 point
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Depends on the area, what they eat, and what kind of terrain they walk.
The place I'm currently hunting will probably never produce a 20 lb bird.
But across the board - you can make two assumptions. 1) Hunters will over estimate and weigh turkey incorrectly. 2) the average AL gobbler will be under 20 lbs, if you weighed every turkey killed in a single year. Ours usually average about 16lbs. I've killed several over the years that were over 20 and know of one killed this year that was 25lbs. That's a monster for our area.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
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03/26/17 01:47 AM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Boxes Cove
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I think they are so heavy this year they can't gobble.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
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03/26/17 02:00 AM
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Northport, Al.
BOFF
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Booner
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Northport, Al.
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Just today's turkeys.
Fat, lazy, good for nothing gobblers, wanting free hand outs of corn, seed, and feed.
Not willing to do nothing or make an effort at all. Won't even go to a good looking and sounding hen, wanting her to come to him and just lay down.
Then you got the openly strutting and displaying gobblers hanging out only together and sounding off at anything they don't like.
I tell ya, I don't know what the woods are coming to these days.
God Bless,
David B.
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: Southwood7]
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03/26/17 02:38 AM
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N. Bama
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It's all about the gmo grain BOFF. It's ruining wildlife. First deer now turkeys.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!!
My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty
I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: BOFF]
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03/26/17 04:03 AM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Just today's turkeys.
Fat, lazy, good for nothing gobblers, wanting free hand outs of corn, seed, and feed.
Not willing to do nothing or make an effort at all. Won't even go to a good looking and sounding hen, wanting her to come to him and just lay down.
Then you got the openly strutting and displaying gobblers hanging out only together and sounding off at anything they don't like.
I tell ya, I don't know what the woods are coming to these days.
God Bless,
David B. It's that dang Techno , gamer, facebook , instant gratification generation of Turkeys.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: BOFF]
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03/26/17 07:02 AM
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Posts: 12,100
Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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Booner
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Posts: 12,100
Sylacauga, AL
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Just today's turkeys.
Fat, lazy, good for nothing gobblers, wanting free hand outs of corn, seed, and feed.
Not willing to do nothing or make an effort at all. Won't even go to a good looking and sounding hen, wanting her to come to him and just lay down.
Then you got the openly strutting and displaying gobblers hanging out only together and sounding off at anything they don't like.
I tell ya, I don't know what the woods are coming to these days.
God Bless,
David B. Good post! I can remember when most gobblers would find a nice hen and mate with her for life, then help her with nesting and raising the poults. Any gobbler I see now behaving responsibly like this is gonna get a pass from me. But now most of the gobblers are just plain sorry, as my grandmother would have said. They seek immoral relationships with as many hens as possible, and then immediately desert them. When the hens are trying to raise the poults, they all get together and roam the country seeking mischief like the bunch of rogues they are. One of my goals is to bring justice upon these irresponsible gobblers and restore some morals to the turkey population. That's the only way to reverse the decline.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: More heavy birds than usual?
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#2070007
03/26/17 07:29 AM
03/26/17 07:29 AM
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Posts: 10,055
Northport, Al.
BOFF
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 10,055
Northport, Al.
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Just today's turkeys.
Fat, lazy, good for nothing gobblers, wanting free hand outs of corn, seed, and feed.
Not willing to do nothing or make an effort at all. Won't even go to a good looking and sounding hen, wanting her to come to him and just lay down.
Then you got the openly strutting and displaying gobblers hanging out only together and sounding off at anything they don't like.
I tell ya, I don't know what the woods are coming to these days.
God Bless,
David B. Good post! I can remember when most gobblers would find a nice hen and mate with her for life, then help her with nesting and raising the poults. Any gobbler I see now behaving responsibly like this is gonna get a pass from me. But now most of the gobblers are just plain sorry, as my grandmother would have said. They seek immoral relationships with as many hens as possible, and then immediately desert them. When the hens are trying to raise the poults, they all get together and roam the country seeking mischief like the bunch of rogues they are. One of my goals is to bring justice upon these irresponsible gobblers and restore some morals to the turkey population. That's the only way to reverse the decline. Lol. Well played PCP! God Bless, David B.
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