Here is a lil Map that shows the boundary according to the NWTF
Personally I think it is wrong and that the Easterns boundary stretches even farther 20 or 30 miles southward.
Here is a few Osceolas that I have taken recently Notice the darker wing barrings Easterns have barring close to Osceolas.
Osceolas seem to have a greener tenge and Easterns more a bronzed colors also.
I have also noticed that Esaterns tend to have thicker beards in general and are bigger in body weight.
Osceolas tend to be a lil more leggy meaning then seem to be a lil taller leg wise.
Really dark barring on wings
Here is a Osceola I took a pic of that was just south of me(PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A OSCEOLA)
Since I have not killed any Easterns I will grap a few pics from the web.
pair of Easterns
Those are some really nice birds you have taken :rockon
That line looks way better then the one i said in another thread that it was SR 50. Last I heard SR 50 is the cutoff for Boone and Crocket scoring. That line makes WAY MORE sense.
i was born and raised in flordia and never killed an osceola shot at em never got one, went to tenessee and killed a nice eastern
In all honesty if you ask the true South FL turkey hunters (old timers) they will tell you that their are no true Osceola's north of Orlando. They say that you start getting into hybrid birds and such. I can tell you that "Osceola"s that I have killed in central FL are different then the birds we kill down here. They are slight differences but they are there.
Yea theres gonna be slight differences. The climate in south florida is way different then north florida. The turkeys over hundreds of years have adapted to the specific climate/surroundings to suite their needs. Plus there is better nutrition in the north because of more agriculture. Different vitamins and minerals in foods will also change the colors in the feathers a little bit.
Deer are the same way, bigger deer with bigger antlers-more agriculture in the north.
