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No beard #3393352
04/18/21 02:57 PM
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I see no signs of a beard.

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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393353
04/18/21 02:59 PM
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Hard to tell but fan doesn’t look full.


Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393357
04/18/21 03:03 PM
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That’s a full grown gobbler.

Boff my son killed a bird in TX with 1” spurs and a full fan and he had a 3/8” very thin beard. We couldn’t even find it at first. Some gobblers just don’t have them, although it’s rare.

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393358
04/18/21 03:04 PM
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Look at his wing patch, definitely a gobbler.

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393360
04/18/21 03:08 PM
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Added other pictures.

I've killed adult birds with no spurs, not even a bump at the Cahaba WMA.
Seen beard rot, but I'm not seeing anything here.
Maybe he got in a fight and had it pulled off?

Maybe old and his hair is falling out like mine.

Maybe I can examine him for answers. laugh

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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393368
04/18/21 03:26 PM
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I got on a bird in a hay field earlier in the year could have sworn he had a full fan and was grown. Just couldn’t ever find a beard. Never got close enough to inspect

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393369
04/18/21 03:28 PM
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Yea he full grown - sometimes they can get beard Rot and just hav 2-7 inch beard and I am guessing they can also hav no beard
I called a few spurless birds - my buddy killed a monster w like 1 1/2 inch spurs that had like 3 inch beard - beard rot -

one of the toughest birds I ever hunted had either no beard or a Jake beard (I did not see a beard) called him in different times - shot his subordinates each time - one had 1 1/4 inch spur and the other bird had 1 5/16 - never killed that beardless or Jake beard bird

I always shoot a bird w full fan


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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393374
04/18/21 03:39 PM
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Walk like a gobbler, talk like a gobbler...die like a gobbler. Plenty of time to look for spurs ‘n beards once you kill ‘em.

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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393380
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I killed one last year with a 9” beard, bumps for spurs, one side of his fan was full and the other was short like a Jake. He fried up just fine though. Cool pics thanks for sharing.

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393382
04/18/21 04:15 PM
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Boff here’s my son’s. It wasn’t Beard rot. He just never grew one it looks like.

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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393388
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I killed a bird with no signs of a beard and a bird with slick legs in the same season in Alabama.Only ones of either kind i've seen in maybe 250 kills over 50 years.


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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393390
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I killed a bird with 11” beard and not even a bump For spurs years ago


Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393404
04/18/21 05:11 PM
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I've never killed one with NO beard or NO spurs

Re: No beard [Re: Turkey_neck] #3393405
04/18/21 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Turkey_neck
I killed a bird with 11” beard and not even a bump For spurs years ago



Thar long he should've had at least 1inch spurs

Re: No beard [Re: Mbrock] #3393407
04/18/21 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Mbrock
Boff here’s my son’s. It wasn’t Beard rot. He just never grew one it looks like.

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WOW!!

I believe I might of missed that one.



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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393434
04/18/21 06:21 PM
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I’ve killed 2 with 10” beards and no spurs



Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393442
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Cool pic.


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Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393461
04/18/21 07:00 PM
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Wing patch says full grown. Shoot him and make some nuggets.

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393462
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Cool barring on the fan too. I’ve always wanted to kill a bird with that type of barring.

Re: No beard [Re: BOFF] #3393472
04/18/21 07:15 PM
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What about the white coloring in the middle tail feather. The biggest birds I’ve ever killed had that coloring. Never noticed it in the younger looking ones

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