Saw in my Great Days Outdoors magazine a man killed a 32.06 pound Gobbler in wilcox county this spring....5 lbs. shy of the record!!

I'd have to see the DNA on that bird before I'd believe it is a true wild bird from Wilcox Co. I've killed a LOT of Wilcox gobblers, don't remember any over 19 pounds by me or anyone I knew around there. We killed a lot of 14-16 pound mature gobblers back then.

I’m sure it just had a thyroid problem

Lots of masterbaiters in that area I’m guessing.

One of them special contest scales.

Throwing the BS flag!

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We killed a few in Wilcox County (Alberta Area) that weighed over 26

I killed one in Flatwood several years ago that was 22.5 lbs

22 pounds, and even 26 pounds are a hell of a long way from 32 pounds in turkey weights.

So the record is 37 lbs?

Yep. That's a big difference.

Biggest gobbler I ever killed weighed 23.5 and is also the only one with 1.5" spurs, and he came from Wilcox Co. I don't remember ever seeing a bigger one that someone else killed. I don't believe wild turkeys in Wilcox Co are gonna get a whole lot bigger than that one.

Considering that a 32 lb tame turkey is not at all unusual, well, draw your own conclusions.

When I was in HS, I saw a gobbler in Coy that probably weighed 32 lbs. And he was free ranging, though only about 100 yds from a house, and had a bunch of chickens around him. I passed.

That's what I was thinking !!! Good grief man.. that's a juvenile Emu weight !!

100 yards from a house in Coy is a wild bird....

Hard to believe in Alabama . I seen some in Indiana last year deer hunting that were no doubt 25-27 lb Easterns.

I’ve never seen an Alabama turkey that weighed over 23 pounds. Seen a good many from other states that did though.

I have killed a 24# Alabama gobbler, and prolly 20 at 20-21# over the years. I killed a 22# Osceola gobbler near Lake Ocochobee, 2nd largest in Fl at the time.

I have also killed a 12.5# gobbler with a 10" beard and 1" spurs...not skinny either just a runt.

32# and there is a mad farmer somewhere looking for his turkey. I guy I know entered a 35# bird in the old, old Woods and Waters contest, followed an hour later by a farmer looking for him and his tame bird......

In 2016 4 of the birds I killed were all between 22-24 lbs. only time that’s ever happened. A 36 would look like a coop grip spur walking thru the woods.

Your scales needed calibrating.

No they don’t. They were on.

We ya e land in Jackson county where 19-21lbs is fairly common , used to hunt a place in south al that a 19 lbr would have been a record . Killed quite a few mature birds that only weighed 16-17 lbs .

30-something lb bird is probably the equivalent of a 500lb whitetail.

Not true at all. Buddy of mines clients and himself in NE Kansas has killed several 28-32lb birds over the years. No he dont need to calibrate his scales either...lol

I killed one that weighed 30lbs a few years ago.

Bullschit according to outback.

That's a different thing altogether when you talk about Midwest turkeys.

yeah, Kansas ain't quite Alabama.....

I haven't heard of any that big in bama. I actually question half the entries in Turkey contest. Seems like every bama bird killed weighs 20+lbs these days.

In Alabama?

Yep

You shattered the state record !

killed an absolute hoss, once in a lifetime, bama bird a few yrs back that didn't hit 25lbs... id need to have a +25 lb bird in hand and know it wasnt someones pet that wandered off to believe it

Been at it a long time and weighed a LOT of birds. I am skeptical of some of these weights in Alabama but if it makes you happy, carry on.

I was turkey hunting in Cherokee County one year and got out of the truck on an old logging road and I swear there was an adult Emu standing in front of me ( no joke, an actual Emu ). If I wouldn't have had two other people with me they would have thought I was losing it. There was an Emu farm about 5 miles down the road, I guess he escaped. No joke he looked 6 foot tall and around 100 pounds. Not gonna lie, for a split second I reached for my gun.

I called up an Emu one morning turkey hunting, thought about shooting it too, but didn't.

FTR all my birds were weighed on IGFA certified scales. I didn't weight the Emu......

I didn't see you throwing out them 25 pound plus numbers. Your weights agreed with what I have witnessed. 18 pounds being a good sized bird in Wilcox county. BTW, does an Emu have spurs?

I don't know about Emu spurs but they will damn for sure peck the crap out of you if you let em get too close.

OlTimer , we hunted east side of Wilcox( Furman area) a lot and rarely killed a bird over 17 pounds, and a lot of them weighed 14-16 pounds, with thin long spurs and thin beards.

I got knocked out cold by a loose 2x4 on day as we drove into Oak Hill. I woke up in a white draped bed in a nice house right on the road, with an angel in white standing by the bed. Thought I was dead and had gone to heaven . Would of been about 1970-71 when I was 19-20 years old.

I killed those same turkeys in furman growing up Troy. But these row crop land fed birds up here in theTn valley make those look like baby chicks. It’s crazy the difference

location makes a LOT of difference. When I hunted between Bham and Leeds prolly half the birds we killed were 19-20 pounds, very rarely anything under 18 pounds.

I killed a gobbler this year that had a broken leg. It was cracked on the front side right in front of his spur. I had seen him a couple of times before and he always was with another gobbler hobbling around. I decided I was going to do everything I could to kill him for my 5th bird.

I got lucky one morning late in April and set up right under them. I had the healthy bird come straight in sitting there strutting, but I had seen ol hop along coming too. He finally made it over to me and I rolled him. His buddy then proceeded to jump all over him as he flopped. Poor bird didnt weigh but 13lbs 4oz. He was the smallest bird I've ever killed. I feel confident I spared him from dying to a yote or cat before next spring