Tennessee record Gobbler

[Rem11-87]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/1d31e79...could-nab.html


The spurs are unreal.

[uga_dawg]

Can't help but wonder if Travis remembers the story the same way.

The first thing that popped into Cord Maddox’s mind when he saw a male gobbler on the morning of April 10 was that it was the biggest turkey he’d ever seen.

The second was that he couldn’t shoot the big bird.

Maddox, 23, of Huntingdon, Tenn., about 90 miles west of Nashville, was hunting with his buddy Travis Ward, and it was Ward’s time to shoot. They alternate when they hunt: One calls and the other shoots.

Ward had called in the last turkey on their hunt the week before and Maddox shot it.


However, this time the turkey came into view at an angle that wasn’t good for Ward.

“With the way Travis was sitting, a tree was blocking his view of the bird,” Maddox said. “So somehow, the good Lord above, I guess, let me get the shot on him.”

[uga_dawg]

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[Rem11-87]

You run up there and grab that leg with him still flopping you would know it.

[Tuffy]

Any white feathers visible?

[SCtrkyhntr1]

You run up there and grab that leg with him still flopping you would know it.

I'd take that spur to the hand to be able to kill a wild turkey with spurs like that!

[ccleroy]

I'd take that spur to the hand to be able to kill a wild turkey with spurs like that!

Zactly, I got 9 other fingers to use.

[gooseaholic]

The Yucatán Peninsula sub-species of TN turkey!