brow tipped turkey beard

[NYHUNTER92]

shot my first turkey with the bow and was just wondering if any of you have ever seen a beard like this its black and then tapers off into blondish towards the tip

[Water Rat]

Congrats with your first bow killed turkey............no easy feat . I've never seen the blondish tip at the end of the beard as you described.

[WNY Bowhunter]

The orange/amber coloration is caused by a melanin defficiency in the beard feathers which causes them to be brittle and break off.  It's pretty common actually.  One of my birds from last spring was the same way...

 

 

Edited May 8, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter

[phade]

Good thing it's just the tip....Right? Just the tip?

 

Beard rot as noted..

[Cabin Fever]

Congrats! I've always wanted to take one with a bow! Never seen a beard like that before.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Congrats. Nice job using the bow. Any story?

[NYHUNTER92]

thanks guys.well i went up friday morning after i got out of work at 4am to get up there by am which made me alittle down seing as it was already light out aswell as the first setup was windy and couldn't here anything, well then we went over 100 yards and the wind died down and we called in 6 nice toms me and my father each got a nice bird. that night my freind who had never gone hunting before came up and we got out early the next morning and we called in a couple of jakes and a small tom to 40 yards and i shot first since i was using the bow and when my bird dropped the others came and started kicking him and my freind wasted no time dropping his and we eneded up with a double