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Coming of Spring(TURKEY)
mullet:
Hunting Osceola's is a different kind of hunt. These birds aren't afraid if getting their feet wet. And they have some nice hooks.
lowell:
I like the spurs too. Wish I had kept all of mine that way!! ;)
mullet:
The length of the spurs is the only true way of aging a Tom. A bump , a late hatch 1 year old. A bump with a point a early hatch Jake, 1 year old. Short , 1", 1 1/4" sharp, 2 year old. NICE 1 1/2" ,1 3/4" , (2" approaching in the record category) hooked(curved),spurs, 3 years old or more. Most of them don't live much longer than that.
FlintWalker:
Around here it takes at least 4 years for a gobbler to get 1-1/2" spurs. A jake would have a bump, a two year old would be less than an inch to a blunt 1", a three year old will be from a sharp inch to 1-1/4 and a 4 year old will usually be over 1-3/8. There's just something about them osceolas, they seem to have longer spurs than these easterns around here.
huntertrapper:
have any of you seen hens with beards? i had one land some couple feet from me last year. i though about shootin since it had a beard and all and didn't. then my dad says after she flew, you coulda shot her now that i think of it.
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