World record wild turkey weight
Top 5 Scoring Rio Grande Gobblers
Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff
Posted 2019-02-22T08:31:00Z
Best Registration Statistics for "Typical" Rio Grande Turkeys
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To many of us, Rio Grande turkey hunting means Texas, Oklahoma and that part of the country.
You'll also identify them roosting above the lush California vineyards north of Los Angeles and even across the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii. And many other states west of the Mississippi River.
Check out the top five Rio Grande gobblers registered by hunters in our click-through gallery.
Go here to register your bird with the National Wild Turkey Federation.
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Bernard E. Klimaszewski, a Texan, killed this "typical" Rio Grande in his home mention on April 12, 1984.
The beard tapped out at 10.8750 inches. Spurs ranged from 1.7500 inches to 1.5000 inches. The weight came in at 28.7500 pounds.
Total score: 83.0000.
That is one hefty Rio, lured in with a box call. Click the arrow to the right of the stick number to see the next best registered Rio.
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The size is remarkable. The spurs, well, they’re literally eye-popping once you see them
Record book turkeys will make hunters drool and dream. And in a year with some remarkable fishing records being set along with a world record non-typical deer killed in November 2016, the potential Tennessee record turkey adds another chapter to the Volunteer State’s wildlife story.
Cord Maddox, 23, of Huntington, Tenn., killed a giant gobbler while hunting with a friend in Henry County in April 2017. After shooting the tom, the two were astounded by its size and the spurs. They knew it had the chops for a possible record but, even if it didn’t, they wanted to know the measurements.
After contacting Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to inquire about scoring, a TWRA official put the bird on the scales, measured its beard and then measured the spurs. Wowzers! The pending score for Maddox’s bird is 89.562, which barely eclipses the Tennessee record of 89.50 set in 2016.
The bird weighed 25.37 pounds, had a 12 7/16 inch beard, and spurs of 2 1/6 (right) and 1 7/8 (left) for a final score of 89.5626.
That’s unofficial until the National Wild Turkey
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How to Score a Turkey
Before you begin to score your turkey, be sure to observe that all measurements are taken in 1/16-inch increments and converted to decimal form. A conversion chart for measurements is located at the bottom of this page.
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Weigh your bird in pounds and ounces and modify ounces to decimal form.
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Measure each spur. Spurs must be measured along the outside center, from the point at which the spur protrudes from the scaled leg skin to the tip of the spur. Insert both spur measurements and multiply the combined length of the spurs by 10. This is the number of points you receive for the turkey’s spurs.
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Measure the beard length (a beard must be measured from the center point of the protrusion of the skin to the tip) and convert it to decimal form.
Next, multiply the beard length figure by 2; this is the number of points you receive for the beard length. If you possess an atypical bird (multiple beards), measure each beard, convert them to a decimal number, then add those figures together and multiply by two. This is the number of points you receive for your turkey’s beards.
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Add together the weight, the poin
Outdoors: World record turkey in Kentucky
I'll never understand hunters' obsession with keeping score in the unrestrained . Does the biggest rack, heaviest fish or biggest turkey construct the taker the best stalker or angler? No, actually it just points out who happened to be in the right spot when the unfortunate untamed thing made a fatal mistake.
Nevertheless, wild game scoring systems hold been devised and utilized ad nauseum to determine which defunct animal, fish or bird was biggest or best.
Well, turkey season just ended and it figures that big gobblers would be in the news. Sure enough, a new No. 1 was added on April 30 when a Kentucky gobbler was certified as the heaviest "typical" among the Eastern subspecies ever recorded under the National Wild Turkey Federation's trophy scoring system.
David Cody Guess, 22, was hunting on his family farm near Kuttawa, Kentucky one morning early last month when he called in a big gobbler and occasioned its demise with a shotgun blast at eight yards. The bird weighed 37.6 pounds in a state where the average adult gobbler weighs 18 pounds.
Guess's bird had 1.25-inch spurs and a ragged 9.75-inch beard. Using the NWTF scoring criteria that uses weig
Kentucky Man Harvests World-record Wild Turkey
It happened within the 2015 untamed turkey hunting season. It was a day when a fresh man who is an avid hunter was able to harvest what is now the largest wild turkey recorded by the National Wild Turkey Federation.
“It was on one of those picture perfect mornings,” said Cody Guess of Lyon County, Ky. “Sunny, and very little wind. I killed the bird on our family farm…”
It wasn’t just any bird. It was not just any turkey harvested during a spring Kentucky turkey season. This was a turkey that made it into the write down books as being the earth record.
On April 21, Speculate harvested a turkey that tipped the scales at 37.6 pounds. Now that’s a bird lock to double the size of those we put on our Thanksgiving table. The average weight of an adult male turkey is said to be about 17 pounds.
The bird had spurs 1-1/4 inches long, making it a real ‘tree hanger,’ meaning that they are so big you can hang the bird from its spurs on a tree branch.
It also had a 9-3/4-inch beard. Speculate explained, “It was very dense. Most seem to think it had been worn off or frozen off.”
Many turkey hunters will pride themselves with getting a bird with a