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Originally Posted By: BrentD
smile They are so different in different parts of the country.

I've shot 17# jakes here and 27# toms. But it doesn't matter. I just love the birds strutting into range.


There's some scientistic term for animals from colder climes carrying more weight. But you're the professor, why am I telling you that?...Geo

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yes there are such trends. Bergman's rule is what you are thinking of here. (body size increases as one goes north in the Northern Hemisphere), but I doubt this applies here. Harrd to say why though. Allen's rule is another (the proportional size of appendages declines as one goes north).


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In this part of the state, large birds are an anomaly unless they have access to row crops. The 280,000 acre tract (military base) where I often hunt has never had restocking as the birds have been there since the beginning of time and supplied birds for release in other parts of the state during the resurgence of stocking in the 1970's. A mature bird here will weigh between 15-18 lbs. with a few topping out at 20. Farm land is a different story. An old species map had this area shaded as having an intergrade between Eastern and Osceola. Gil

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There have been some big birds killed on my place. My buddy who comes from Arkansas and hunts it each year has killed several over 25#, one going 28# several years ago. Must be the abundance of row crops here.

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One of the last ones he took here, though not as big as some of the others.



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This one weighed 21-1, and that's a heavy bird for one that lives in a loblolly pine plantation in central AL.


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Took an old hunter and we got busted by a monster gobbler when my friends rear end went numb in combination with a mosquito on the face. Too much dancing for an old old bird at 60 yards.

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I hunted all day yesterday and finally hemmed up a nice one just before dark. Three year old bird with 10.5" paintbrush style beard and spurs sharp enough to cut me up while carrying him out of the Alapaha River swamp to the truck. Sleeping in this morning, turkey hunting is hard work for old guys...Geo

The pic is blurry, but the gun is a 12ga FEG:



I'm a little concerned about this picture. That's back at the camp with my son posing my bird and me standing behind. The sun was setting just back of us and seems to create a sort of halo around my head. Man I hope that ain't some kind of omen!:




Brent, I weighed him for you; 18 pounds just like all the rest of them!

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Congratulations!

You are giving me the itch. But I've got 3 weeks before my turn comes. I guess I can agonize over which gun, what load, etc. But really there is not much to think about. Just waiting to do it. With 5" of soggy snow yesterday, it seems like turkey season will never get here.


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This morning my wife and I watched 7 gobblers for about an hour scratching around in our totally open back yard. One was the boss gobbler with a beard I'd estimate at about 10"; and the 6 others were jakes.

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