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NY Turkey Records 2025
If you tag a gobbler that meets the criteria listed below near the end of this post or in any anticipated future editions, I would love to interview you for inclusion in the Empire Limbhangers book project. Although your stories and photos will be captured for the book, you will retain rights to your photos and your story. Should you wish to use the story I write for other purposes, copyright permissions can be granted as needed.
The main issue with keeping it all legit for the project is typically weight, as most of the small scales that are used to weigh fish can vary +/- 1 to 2 lbs or more. A weight coupon from a certified scale ensures accuracy and proof of measurement. Otherwise, it can be legitimately challenged. The scale should be suitable for products or goods for sale that are taxed in the state. I live in Cortland County and own several scales suitable for trade with a 25lb calibration weight with certification traceable to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly National Bureau of Standards), and can also provide a video of calibration and the actual weighing of your gobbler. I will be glad to do so, and there is no fee.
Pics with tape measurement in the pics are required to show scale and accuracy for beards and spurs. There are several handy products to help measure spurs (including the curved outside edge) but as of this writing, none aside from a tape measure cover the spur measurements that have been described going back decades as published by the NWTF http://turkey-talk.com/scoresbpmeasure.html#spus As the decades long description covers the entire exposed spur that can occur below the outer edge of the leg, it is more often that the exposed spur is even with the leg edge. Anecdotal, as such, the differences observed have not exceeded 1/8″. As the calculation is x10 or x32 (SBP) for each spur, it is a detail to be aware of.
Anecdotal evidence, unfortunately, cannot be used to substantiate record book entries, no matter how good the stories are. Sworn testimony, under oath, from your pastor or favorite nun, still requires verifiable weight and photo evidence of measurements when reaching the thresholds stated here.
Best bet if you think you have one for the books: weigh the gobbler on a certified scale and be sure to get a weight coupon. Take plenty of photos, including those with a tape measure. NWTF requires witness signatures that also have to be an NWTF member if you wish to participate in their records program. Safari Club also has a program, but it is not viewable unless a member. I may include them if details can be worked out in the future.
Record entries not included in the NWTF system, once verified, can be accepted. You will note that the NWTF requires verifications that I have mentioned, and I will accept their determinations for the project. I do support their system and would encourage you to enter your submission with the NWTF as well. NWTF submissions are now accepted online: www.nwtf.org/hunt/records.
Scoring tabulations for the project will include the NWTF system and the SBP weighted system. For more info on SBP http://turkey-talk.com/scoresbp.html
For those that I have contacted or attempted to contact at the beginning of the project, your stories will be available to review as I complete them.
If you have harvested a legally tagged wild turkey with one or more of the following attributes in NY during the 2024-2025 spring/fall seasons, or years prior, registered or not registered w/NWTF records, I would love to talk to you about being included in the book!
Please contact mjoyner@joyneroutdoormedia.com
Note: Non-registered birds- measurable attributes must be verified for consideration.
Typical score greater than 75.000 (weight x1 + beard x 2 + L & R spur x 10)
Non-Typical score greater than 105.000 (weight x1 + beard(s) x 2 + L & R spur x 10)
Weight greater than 26.5 lbs. (verifiable certified weight)
Beard Length greater than 12″ (verifiable length)
Spur Length greater than 1.625″ (verifiable length)
Hens with spurs
http://empirestatelimbhangers.com/
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Opening Day New York Spring 2025
From all of us at Joyner Outdoor Media, we wish hunters heading out into the great Turkey Woods of New York for the 2025 Spring Turkey Season Opener a safe and most memorable morning and season afield in our great forests.
Be diligent in firearm safety and identify your quarry 100%. Do your part to ensure each of us turkey hunters makes it back safely to hunt again another day. If someone beats you to a spot, give them room to work the gobbler, move on to another spot, and check it later in the morning. If someone comes in on you, do not turkey call or wave. Speak in a firm voice- “I’m a hunter.” Courtesy and ethical behavior makes for plenty of respect and positive experiences.
We hope that you are inspired while spending time in the places that feathered monarchs thunder gobbles from the many old and ancient roost trees well known to the prepared, and set your hearts racing in anticipation.
© 2025 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
Take the Time
To my turkey-hunting brethren, for that matter, deer hunting buddies, upland game hunting friends, and the hordes of fishermen I know: Take the time to capture a memory.
It is not the goal of incessant social media posting or creating shrines to one’s self.
Take the time to write in a daily journal, take the time to set up your camera to capture your hunt, and take the time to capture anything that attracts your eye. Sure, it might take ten to twenty minutes. Sit back down and write in your smartphone if you have to. Sometimes, it is a productive habit to write out your thoughts while waiting for the sunrise and the birds to gobble. Don’t like to write? Make a voice memo. The eggs and coffee at the diner will be there when you get there. Trust me, they’ll make more.
Attend to the trophy parts, ensure a clean harvest of the meat, and cool it properly, and ready to cook or put away in the freezer. The collections of beards, tail fans and spurs, along with the enjoyment of a hunter’s bounty, are all part of the hunt and your memory of it.
The emphasis here is to have the captures available years from now, as decades later, and if you put enough days afield, the stories and recollections merge, bits and pieces become one until you think long and hard and sort it all out. I can assure you from real-world experience. I started chasing gobblers in 1993. Since then, between spring and fall seasons in New York and add in out of state hunts both spring and fall it is fair to say that I’ve been afield somewhere north of a thousand mornings, and a lion’s share of all day hunting or combined with scouting and roosting over three decades. I can kick myself for not burning through rolls of film before digital cameras were cheap enough and all the rage. Had I not written out my story books as I have, starting in 2005, I would have much of it now as distant memories and so glad I captured them.
You’ll thank me many years from now should you adopt this as part of your hunt. It has never been easier with smartphones to quickly capture your thoughts, your story, and photos. You may not fancy yourself as a writer or photographer, but I can guarantee you that over time, you will find your skills, voice, and style, and it improves greatly with practice. I can tell you that as I age, officially entering the retirement years with no signs of actually retiring, that without the photos from my good cameras or smartphone, the note taking, and the story captures I incrementally do with each hunt, I would have far more difficulty in separating each hunt, as I have been blessed with so many fantastic days in the turkey woods. I know so many of you that are afield as I am, and there are hundreds of stories to tell. It would be my goal to encourage more of you to keep a journal. Turkey hunters as storytellers do not play second fiddle to any fisherman, and I encourage you to share those stories.
What I hope to strongly impart with each of you is that having these captures is instrumental to having vivid recall of each of these hunts. As time passes, this becomes an essential habit to enjoying these memories. Think of this arm-twisting as my gift of hard-earned wisdom. As we are soon to embark on the 2025 Spring Turkey Season in New York, I wish you all the best in your days afield.
© 2025 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
NY NWTF $100K Commitment to Forests and Flocks Initiative
State Chapter President Eric Davis, on behalf of the New York NWTF Chapter, announced and presented a check to the Forests and Flocks Initiative, supporting future projects in New York in mid January 2025. The $50,000 commitment for New York to the Forests and Flocks Initiative will match other state commitments that cover a 13 Northeast state region.
The other $50,000 committed over a five-year period will go to the creation of an endowed professorship in the Northeast. The endowed professorships are an important goal for the new Forests and Flocks Initiative.
The donation/commitments celebrate the state chapter’s 50th anniversary, and a commitment to wild turkey conservation research. A check was presented at the 50th annual awards dinner this past January.
For source press releases:
https://www.nwtf.org/programs/forests-and-flocks
© 2025 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
Turkey Hunters-CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Matter to you on Nov 5th 2024?
Let’s Start with the only rational answer- HELL YES…
A ‘Yes’ response serves no one if expressed only as lip service in the voting booth when it comes down to making a real difference. Core principles put to action are the only action that matters in your voices and our participation in the election process.
We are learning firsthand in real time that who wins elections has far-reaching impact in nearly all aspects of our lives, making a living, raising our families, pursuing our passions, and the resulting absolute nonsense of our political circus. We wince and shake our heads constantly over this as we endure. It is a simple observation of hundreds of years of recorded history, and a dash of common sense, that without the ability to defend against tyranny as a citizen from the less than honorable human traits within our own government, there is no guarantee of the first amendment which had been significantly attacked in recent years and in the quest for political power and domination of opposing parties. There are no noble intentions in this narcissistic effort, despite the ruse that is constantly in play to disarm opponents in political realms, and anyone who does not agree with faux narratives and party dictate.
As those of us who hunt, fish, and enjoy, use, and support gun ownership, we are treated rather poorly by far too many of our elected representatives and the monster of bureaucracy that is in need of a severe financial diet and retraction of authorities. Try to imagine us as citizens who are effectively neutered of firearm ownership and can be run over roughshod by any rogue politician or power-hungry political party. Cult of personality is not a valid factor if one cares about end goals being accomplished. The reaffirmation of the second and even the first amendment may be rightfully corrected in my lifetime, should we wake up and participate and vote as one voice.
Voting day is upon us, whether you participated in early voting, absentee ballot, or voting in person, make it count.
I will not demand what party you should affiliate with, or whom you should vote for. If voting today, I hope each of you took the time you look up each candidate, each party, and research their platform, their positions, and most importantly, their past voting records and history. Too many changes and flip-flops to gain votes. We need steadfast constitutionalists, representing us as stewards of our constitution and champions of the First and Second Amendment rights we hold dear.
I will put forth that in a critical review, I might not trust the flip-flopping post-non-violent coup after a legal primary. Anti-gunners, anti-hunters will flip-flop to get votes, but only long enough to get in the driver’s seat. Make no mistake, you will come to regret protest or cult of personality voting while falling for the ruse, voting against a candidate that supports these essential amendments down the road.
The mainstream media and social media platforms actively steer your feeds and searches, and what is presented to you on the first pages of your searches. Be mindful that others will forcefully tell you what is fact and what is not. It is evident that the fact-checkers are suspect. There is too much at stake, and all the stops are being pulled. As opponents of our positions are happy with the strategy of the ends justify the means to gut the first and second amendments, disarm us, and end hunting and fishing as dictated by special interest groups.
As a whole, gun owners, hunters, archers, trappers, competition shooters, and sportsmen in our Grand Union and especially in New York State fail miserably in casting ballots, despite a large demographic and cross-section of the population in the nation and the Empire State. If it is not our responsibility who then should this be assigned? Leftist Democrats bent on a single-party rule, Marxists, Socialists, Radical Fascists? Political parties make strategic calculations based on mediocre participation and the directed lack of respect for us by those we send to Washington to represent our concerns and core values.
To be fair, there are those among us who vote with firm conviction, educated on the issues, and especially on those candidates who professed to protect our First and Second Amendment rights. You know who you are, and my comments are not intended to disparage your good efforts.
We are being browbeaten and dictated to by those who have no understanding or working knowledge of history, the Second Amendment, sustainable wildlife conservation, and yet allow us to pay our way while putting a virtual knee on our necks in every aspect of our activities and inalienable rights. The same folks who are quick to assert their First Amendment rights are the very same who are bent on removing the First and Second Amendments for conservatives, those who refuse to kneel in front of them. Do we allow, by the stroke of a pen, to declare firearm owners felons by merely owning a legally purchased firearm? It can be argued that treason is being committed against the citizens of our country, and entirely unconstitutional on its face.
The framers of our Constitution and subsequent amendments intended that the second amendment be written purposely to defend against a tyrannical government and acts of treason against us. It is that plain and simple. I am certain that the amendment was not written in the anticipation of an unruly uprising of monster gobblers and Boone and Crockett whitetail bucks
None of us alive today were born into servitude or as serfs to kings whom we broke away from in our founding. If you give a damn about your rights and freedoms and that of your loved ones, your neighbors, your brethren, the passive response, sitting out elections is not a responsible choice, and you must exercise your rights as a citizen.
We cannot afford to sit back and continue letting others do our bidding…
Note from the author: Some of this was written in part is a reposting of prior comments and is well worth their inclusion here.
© 2024 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
River Boating for Fall Turkeys
With a bit of back-and-forth scheduling changes with work contracts during the summer, a fall turkey hunt trip back to the great state of Maine would follow the annual NYSOWA Fall Safari at Peck Lake.
As always, every trip to Maine to hunt with Dan Daman would be somehow different if not unusual, and a new experience. For several weeks leading up to the trip, Dan would inform me, that we might be doing a boat trip for fall turkeys and they were using a favored roost consistently. Music to my ears and added to the anticipation. With all the corn still up and unharvested in the many places we scout, this was a tactical improvement in the odds of working a fall flock of turkeys.
The drive from Peck Lake to Maine was a scenic one as I chose to take the northern route to enjoy a beautiful drive. Leaving just as the sky began to change I enjoyed an inspiring sunrise as I headed towards Rutland, Vermont to cross over the mountain passes toward Route 2 in New Hampshire. Well worth the extra drive time versus taking the major highways. I would scout more intently as I crossed into Somerset County, Maine. No feathered sightings were made until I drove over to meet Dan for a bit of scouting for turkeys. I did find a flock of gobblers on the way over, but not on a property we had access to.
Easy decision to go after the river access to a flock that had revealed themselves routinely that week. We took a flat-bottom Johnboat up the river to reach them. It was eerily quiet, almost surreal with the cool dense fog and near-pin-drop quiet in the predawn darkness. An ultra-quiet electric troll motor made the trip effortless, and just as quiet as our surroundings. We secured the boat and made the short uphill climb to our first sit. Turns out we had closed within 50 yards of the boss hen. It was a late start as far as turkey talk went. Once the boss hen opened up, we had a “significant” conversation up until she pitched down in the adjoining field.
The hen gathered her flock shortly after and we could hear her give a soft cluck in response to Dan’s slate call. She happened to like that slate call a lot. It was interesting when she got fired up on the roost, she sounded more raspy like the mouth call I was using. Switching back and forth between Dan and I, got her issuing 19-20 note assembly yelps, and we would add one more in response to keep her intensity at a peak. Having gone quiet for thirty minutes since fly down, I got up and moved toward a corner to a vantage point. I never got there as the flock was slowly working their way around. In short order, I lined up and took two young jakes. Maine allows five birds per fall season in some counties, no more than two on a given day in the fall. It was my first riverboat trip hunt for me, and I enjoyed the added element to the hunt. A prior boat trip in Clayton, NY to Grindstone Island during a NYSOWA Spring Safari was to get to the dock and then transported by truck to our hunting spots on the island. We thought that was pretty cool as well.
We would load up the boat and take a tour further upstream. Awesome views from the boat. On the way back we watch the entire flock fly out across the river in full view and a spectacular sight to behold.
A fantastic experience and will be added to our repertoire of approaches in the years ahead!
-MJ
© 2024 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
The Chase- A Book Review
A new turkey hunting themed book is now out by new author Mindy Oldham, and illustrated by her husband, Timothy Oldham Jr. As her first book, it is a solid offering for those that enjoy hunting themed works, and story telling that is often encountered among friends of the turkey woods. To be blunt and forward in reviewing the book, I disclose a favored bias for writing as we might speak at camp, at a trailhead or at a local diner in April or May. Camo or not, we easily find each other, and the story telling commences.
Mindy has a warm, friendly, and inviting style of story telling. To read her book is to get to know and like her from the first chapter on. Very open in her storytelling, you come to enjoy a long glimpse into the outdoor world as she sees it. Her stories are done in a wonderful style that I truly enjoy. One can imagine being at camp with the Oldham’s, enjoying a great meal after a great hunt and telling stories well into the night.
Those of you turkey hunting diehards that are big into call making and collecting might recognize Tim from the beautiful art that he creates and handcrafted calls he also makes. His art appears throughout the book. It certainly adds to the very personalized feel of the book.
The book is offered in hardcover and available for $30 which includes free shipping in the USA. The hardcover is nicely done as is the high quality paper and printing. The book mark is especially nice and personalized. So much so, I am inclined to see about adopting the wider format and thicker card stock for my own book bling for future releases.
It was an enjoyable read and I encourage you to pick up a copy. I look forward to seeing more of her book releases in the future!
To purchase a copy email: msoldhamgardens@gmail.com or message her on facebook
© 2024 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
NWTF, UGA Establish First-Ever Endowed Wild Turkey Professorship
EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Taking its support of wild turkey research into new territory, the NWTF recently established the first-ever National Wild Turkey Federation Distinguished Professor position with the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
A prominent professor and researcher will be appointed as the school’s National Wild Turkey Federation Distinguished Professor later this year. That individual will be the recipient of a $500,000 endowment to facilitate wild turkey research endorsed and supported by state wildlife agencies in the years ahead.
“While we will always continue to allocate funds to critical wild turkey research projects through our National Wild Turkey RFP program, we need to also channel the momentum we’ve built around research into something a step further,” NWTF co-CEO Kurt Dyroff said. “This new endowed professorship with UGA will ensure that wild turkey research is funded and remains an area of focus into perpetuity.”
Once endowments are established, they are self-sustaining and create a dedicated funding stream to support and expand research with existing faculty or directly fund research faculty positions. As the $500,000 endowment grows, so too will its annual return, increasing its impact on the wild turkey throughout time.
The UGA endowment was financed by a $250,000 contribution from the NWTF and a $250,000 match grant from the UGA Foundation. NWTF’s staff leadership, the National Board of Directors and state chapter leaders endorsed this opportunity at the 48th annual Convention and Sport Show in Nashville in February.
The NWTF seeks to create similar positions at key universities across the country; this network of endowed professorships will promote future wild turkey researchers and ensure the study of the wild turkey remains an area of emphasis, during times of decline and during times of stability.
Similar university positions exist for waterfowl, quail, ungulates (deer) and other species, but the NWTF Distinguished Professor is the first of its kind for the wild turkey.
“As the first endowment of its kind in the country, this collaboration exemplifies our commitment to conserving wild turkeys and hunting heritage for future generations,” said Bridget Harden, senior director of development at UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. “The addition of this new distinguished professorship allows the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources to elevate wild turkey research to a higher level of excellence, achieving results that enhance our understanding of wild turkey management and ecology while honoring the vision and mission of the NWTF.”
The NWTF is working with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to appoint an individual to the position in August.
“The creation of these endowed professors and programs was the natural progression to ensure wild turkeys remain a focus in the future,” said Mark Hatfield, NWTF national director of science and planning. “In addition to our support through the Request for Proposals [research investment] program, we felt it was important to also invest in programs and opportunities that will create the next generation of wild turkey biologists.”
Importantly, any NWTF endowed professorships or programs will not be guaranteed additional funding each year through the RFP program. Endowed professors will still have to apply for research funding through the NWTF’s competitive RFP process, which includes evaluation and scoring of projects by the NWTF Wild Turkey Technical Committee.
About the National Wild Turkey Federation
Since 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation has invested over half a billion dollars into wildlife conservation and has positively impacted over 23 million acres of critical wildlife habitat. The NWTF has also invested over $9 million into wild turkey research to guide the management of the wild turkey population and to ensure sustainable populations into perpetuity. The organization continues to deliver its mission by working across boundaries on a landscape scale through its Four Shared Values: clean and abundant water, healthy forests and wildlife habitat, resilient communities, and robust recreational opportunities. With the help of its dedicated members, partners and staff, the NWTF continues its work to provide Healthy Habitats. and Healthy Harvests. for future generations.
National Wild Turkey Federation
PO Box 530
Edgefield South Carolina 29824
United States
Girls, Girls, Girls -Late Season in New York
As the 2024 Spring Turkey Season is into its last days, our guest Viking Opera Diva is getting her wardrobe dry-cleaned and gearing up for Friday at high noon.
Unlike Mötley Crüe’s rendition of the song. These sexy feathered babes are out there with a mind of their own, and I have a unique late-season and somewhat perplexing story to tell.
After spotting a gobbler, two jakes, and two hens this past Sunday, and very near to state land I could access their core area with a little boot leather. The long walk to the first sit is far easier than the climb to return to the truck. I would be there early this Memorial Day to see what I could make happen. I sure did, but it was a far different hunt than I had in mind. We had a soaking rain last evening that tapered off right at first light this morning. It was a wet walk going in before daylight, but far more comfortable than sitting in a steady rain.
Super quiet start of the morning, and that included the turkeys. One of my favorite late-season spots in Cuyler, New York, and that added to my anticipation, along with the turkeys we spotted here the day before. I had worked my way down to a small flat along one of the finger ridges I like to check on. With the wet understory, it was a stealthy approach and got to where I wanted to go without disturbing any deer. No gobbling on the roost, or at all for that matter. No tree yelping or the usual small talk you hear as the morning light emerges. I gave a few tree yelps close to the time I thought they might fly down, short and sweet with no feathered responses. The chipmunks, however, loved it.
I heard the first wingbeats close to 6:30 a.m., followed by two more. The first hen landed within gun range off to my left. The next two landed out in front, also within range. They would cluck occasionally. Fast forward an hour and I had a fourth hen come in behind me and start clucking. She came up to the tree I sat at. Other than a very elevated heart rate, no pressure at all. Once she started, she never stopped until she left five minutes later. Her clucks were low volume, soft, and varied in pitch. No whips or whistles and no yelping. None of the four hens ever yelped at all. The other three hens would cluck here and there, with no specific pattern to it. They first came to attention when the fourth hen arrived, but quickly lost interest and paid no mind to her. Best described as akin to a teachers lounge, eat a little, stretch, sit for a bit and so on.
Despite being close to a known roost area with a large facing slope, and all that sweet girl talk, it failed to produce a single gobble for the duration there. As I sat and patiently let it all play out, It had crossed my mind that this might be a common meet-up spot and that a gobbler would come in silent, and as Murphy would have it, on my off-side as well. It never happened, but I sure thought about it. Another hour passed and the three hens drifted off the flat as they fed away, down to the creek. I would head back home once they dropped out of sight.
Despite having live hens with sweet voices to entice gobblers further, I could not buy a gobble, anywhere. The climb back to the truck was so worth being front and center to that many hens for 2-1/2 hours.
It is a first for me to encounter hens like this so late in the season. Still roosting without nests to tend to, and without suitors. So content to just hang with their beasties deep in the turkey woods. I have questions as to how this fits into the overall scheme of things, not to mention, where in the hell are the gobblers, and how they would leave these lovely ladies unattended.
Best of luck to all of you in the final days!
© 2024 Mike Joyner- Joyner Outdoor Media
Father and Son Top 10 NY Turkey Records
A query into the possible record book gobbler taken by Cullen Fennessy this past April during the youth spring turkey hunt would lead to the discovery of four more record book gobblers taken by Cullen’s father, Michael Fennessy. Unlike so many of the stories I cover, I would have the opportunity to visit Cullen and his father en route to a planned trip to Maine this past week.
I would travel north to St. Lawrence County on a beautiful spring day to meet with them, conduct interviews for the Empire Limb Hangers book project, have a look-see at the gobblers, and check measurements and confirm the scales. I would notice with great interest the walls of Mike’s massive garage lined with trophy displays of gobblers, With that, I knew I might be there for a while. I would confirm Cullen’s first gobbler along with four more that Mike presented to me. The tasks were made easier as both, the father and son were concise in their stories and recollection of details. Lots of pictures helped document and confirm the record book entries.
As there are several good stories of the hunts, and will be published in full in the book project, I will outline the top record entries first and continue from there.
Cullen’s gobbler taken in April 2024 during the special youth season, ties at #5 with NWTF Typical Score of 81.1250 (SBP Typical Score 172,2500) in New York. Weighing in at 26 lbs 12 oz. becomes the 11th heaviest bird, vetted, and recorded. The beard taped out at 11.8750 and ties with several others as 13th longest beard makes for a grand gobbler in the Empire State. There is a wonderful back story to the hunt, one of father and son, the help of Steve VanPatten , and the chance encounters of a red Cardinal with a heartwarming connection to his great-grandmother. With the backdrop of a warm and inviting experience of a North County hunt camp, it is the start of a lifetime of memories to be made. Given the impressive qualities as a young adult that I discovered in interviewing Cullen, and the mentorship he is receiving as a young hunter, It would be little surprise to see him make a father proud in a path well taken and have his own collection of memories of the great turkey woods.
Michael’s gobbler taken in May 2017 comes in at the new #6 with NWTF Typical Score of 80.8750 (SBP Typical Score 168,5000) in New York. Weighing in at 30 lbs. 0 oz. this boss gobbler becomes the new 1st heaviest bird, vetted, and recorded. Beard measured at 10.1250, and sported 1-9/16″ and 1-1/2″ spurs to complete a grand father-son entry in New York Wild Turkey Records. It is the first to have found where a father and son have pulled a hat trick in the record books.
Michael has also entered three additional gobblers that place:
@ 14th with a NWTF Typical Score of 76.1250, (SBP Typical Score 159,0000,) #10 for weight of 27.0000.
@ 28th with a NWTF Typical Score of 73.7500, (SBP Typical Score 155,0000,) #10 for weight of 27.0000.
@ 32nd with a NWTF Non-Typical Score of 91.1250, (SBP Non-Typical Score 185,0000,) #5 for weight of 28.0000.
Several potential records are being looked into and hopefully vetted. One in particular would topple #1 Typical in NY and one I hope to verify soon. A thank you goes out to Keven Lothridge for the heads up on coming across these incredible stories!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Empire-State-Limb-Hangers/139342609441424?v=info
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