linkie workie. Hell of a set of beards.
That is a great turkey but the way the scoring is for turkeys is not very good. You can kill a 2 year old turkey with great beard length and good weight and come up with a great score. Two year olds typically weigh more during spring because they dont do the majority of breeding. Still a great bird anyway.
The way most animals are score for a record book makes it that normally an older more mature animal is going to score higher. This is not the way it is with turkeys. Go on the nwtf website and look at how to score turkeys. General consensus is that spur length is the way you age a turkey. Spurr length does not carry that much value in the current scoring system. Weight is also an issue, I have killed two year olds that weighed 20 pounds and seen birds with spurrs over an inch and a quarter that wouldnt come close to twenty pounds. I am not one to get caught up in scores, thats what I like about turkey hunting,until you stand on his head you really dont know much about the bird except that he is a full fan gobbler.
Isn't the way they score turkeys an equation that uses weight, beard, and spur length as contributing factors in an equation to determine the final score?
Yes thats my point two thirds of the equation arent determined by age. Even spurr length is somewhat misleading because you can kill a bird in Florida that has over an inch long spurrs and kill one the same age out west where the terrain is rockier and he is going to have shorter spurrs. I guess what Im saying is scoring turkeys in my opinion is kinda silly. JUST MY OPINION. I score my turkey hunts by the excitement not beard length or weight or spurr length but the pounding in my chest. I would rather kill a lonely lovesick 2 year old that gobbles alot and puts on a show than a big hook spurred bird that I have to bushwack,but I aint passing either one up.
