Va BBD

bigsy · Post by **bigsy** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:24 pm

sweet!!!

fletch · Post by **fletch** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:49 pm

Congrats CF I have to wait til Apr. 27.

crazyfarmer · Post by **crazyfarmer** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:58 pm

BigBwanaD wrote:Great bird Crazy and what a way to start this off! You're entered in the contest but I have not scored this one as your entry until you officially notify. For all involved, we need pic of both spurs measured as they will be totalled and then added to your score. Crazy, is the other spur 7/8's as well? If so, just add the pic to this posting.

Ill notify you by midnight on next Saturday if I do decide to enter him. Its another bird im after which should be a tad bigger so im going to try him if I can hunt next week any. But yes the other spur is 7/8ths, actaully its a nick over but im not sure how you want to round them. I always measure with a peice of flexible wire(same as my B&C scoring) but im getting a nick over 7/8ths while the other is 7/8ths exactly. Here is the pic of you want to give you opinion. Its hard to get the tape measure on the spur and snap the pic so im trying to get it the best possible to match the wire measurement. Just let me know how you would score that if entered.

as for the wet bird comments... well we had about 1/2th of rain during the night so everything was wet. After the shot, he decided to flop 50 yards down the ridge into the stream to take his last bath LOL. I will say he wasnt the only thing wet during and after the hunt LOL. I got soaked from hitting tree limbs bringing him back out.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:44 pm

congrats , nice bird

ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:59 am

Congratulations.

Tar Heel · Post by **Tar Heel** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:11 am

Congrats Crazy, nice turkey.

Tar Heel

crazyfarmer · Post by **crazyfarmer** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:14 pm

ecoaster wrote:Congratulations.

thanks, hopefully on the next one I can get a decent pic like you have of yours!

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:15 pm

time to get out the deep fryer

fratri · Post by **fratri** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:56 pm

oh good bird, nice start to the season...congrats....

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:28 am

Nice bird and a paint brush beard also.Cool.

Some of our birds have some sort of swamp rot and their beards fall off.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:47 am

could you guys shott a big tom with no beard sax? our laws state that we can shoot any bearded wild turkey tom, jake even hen, but it must have a beard

Caribou Creek · Post by **Caribou Creek** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:47 pm

Crazy farmer ,, way to go

, our merriams season opens this week, I'll be at camp for 2 weeks starting Thursday.

CC

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:48 pm

what are merriams

crazyfarmer · Post by **crazyfarmer** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:25 pm

mikej wrote:what are merriams

bascially the same as the eastern turkey, but they have more white on their tail feathers.

I really want to hunt one of those oneday

Sax, ive killed a 4 year old bird one year that had 8 inches of his rotted off. Only one strand was left. He had 1 1/4th inch spurs and the longest strand was 11.5 inches, but 90% of the bread was gone and he was in rough shape. I hunted him for 2 years with no luck and when I finally got him he was worn out.

roly · Post by **roly** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:36 pm

We get beard rot in the north here quite often.
not sure what it is , some say it's from the deep snow and it freezes and brakes off , but don't quote me on that!!