Great weekend!!!

[ants]

Congrats!! nice bird. Got knee surgery on the 23rd. but that pic makes me want to tighten up the knee brace and give it one last shot!! I might!! SCREW IT!!

Edited May 14, 2012 by ants

[landtracdeerhunter]

Gotta say that's the oldest bird I've seen takened out of the wild too. Congrats on a very special harvest. It's hard to believe, that turkey could go through 8 seasons, and still be in such good shape. Must have some great habitat where you got him. Are you thinking of a full mount?

Edited May 14, 2012 by landtracdeerhunter

[Justin Dickerson]

Congratulations on a fantastic harvest!!! What part of steuben county are you from?

[MountainHunter]

Congratulations! Really interesting circumstances with the bands. Pretty amazing! Sounds like quite a weekend.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Damn.......That is really something.

You gettin' your loot? <grin>

Probably not. I really not too worried about it...

. Are you thinking of a full mount?

Nope. I'll cut his spurs off and display them with the band right along the rest of the collection.

Congratulations on a fantastic harvest!!! What part of steuben county are you from?

The northeast corner.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Another one of my uncles finally connected this morning on the bird that he's been chasing all week: 19 lbs, 1 1/8 & 1 3/16" spurs and 10.5" beard. Now, that's a paintbrush!!!

I had two gobbling on the roost within 60 yds. and a deer started snorting and they shut up. Don't know if they ever flew down or not?

[WNY Bowhunter]

I was just going through some old threads and thought that I'd update this post with a copy of the letter that I was sent by Penn State: 

 

Edited March 25, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter

[Paula]

So does that mean turkeys don't go far from where they were born or area raised in?

[Paula]

So does that mean turkeys don't go far from where they were born or area raised in?

[Lawdwaz]

That bird was probably EIGHT years old?  Good heavens..........

 

He had to at least be looking at his third birthday when he was banded with spurs like that, no?

 

Very eye opening!  Congrats again.

[landtracdeerhunter]

It was nice of Penn State to communicate with u, even though the survey is closed.

[WNY Bowhunter]

That bird was probably EIGHT years old?  Good heavens..........

 

He had to at least be looking at his third birthday when he was banded with spurs like that, no?

 

Very eye opening!  Congrats again.

 

Yep, I'd guess we would have been going on 3 or possibly even years old back in the spring of 2007...making him 8 or 9 when I busted him last spring.  He is the oldest bird reported in the tri-state study and possibly the oldest on record in NYS.  The old boy was in great shape and by all indications still had a few good years left in him.

[WNY Bowhunter]

So does that mean turkeys don't go far from where they were born or area raised in?

 

Both of mine were banded on the same farm and were later harvested on another farm about a mile up the road.  There have been some birds that have gone 30+ miles.

[josephmrtn]

WOW 8yrs! crazy how tough these birds are

[Water Rat]

I lost the paper that they sent me reguarding my 2008 bird but they told me that he was a 2 year old when banded in 2007 and how many toms/jakes were banded at this location. I'll give them a call tomorrow and see what I can find out. I figure that if he was a jake when banded in '07 that would have made him a minimum of 6 years old this spring.

 

I'm in awe..........what else can I say ?