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.