I've taken several spur-less gobblers over the years with long beards that were obviously 3, 4, or even 5 year old birds. They all tended to gobble on the limb, then hush as they cautiously came in because they had no weapons to engage the possible presence of a dominant bird. As my now long-dead mentor used to say about such, "son, he didn't want another spur rammed up his ass."
JR

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