I CAN"T BELIEVE HE DID THAT!!!

[northern coyote]

a huntin buddy's bro  shot what could have been the new New York State record tom,  this thang had a 18.5" beard, 1+ spurs and weighed close to 35 lbs, but he threw away the beard, cause he shot it and didnt think it was worth keepin ( just a meat bird, which in my neck of the woods is all that really matters),



Just wanted to throw that out there for lack of some thing better to do 

                                                                                  "Uncle" Jess

[Bopeye]

Sounds like one of my ignant buddies........

It's all about the dinner fixings my friend........

[FinsnFur]

No pics either uh?

[northern coyote]

naw, no pics  the only digital cameras I know of around here belong to my ex and my sister, and my sisters is always dead 

[DirtyDog]

Sounds kinda fishy to me............ 

[vvarmitr]

Me too Joe! 

[HaMeR]

   Whats so fishy about 1"+ spurs?? 

[northern coyote]

What reason do I have to lie?

[DirtyDog]

I am not saying that you are lying.........

It just looks fishy. Saying a freinds brother shot a state record bird and didn't keep anything except the meat. Could you buddies brother be telling the truth? Did you see it? If anyone I knew would have shot that thing they would have kept it. I am not saying it isn't true either, just that it looks suspicious. Re read what you posted and tell me that could not be taken that way.

I hope I did not offend ya, just calling it how I see it. I love to be proven wrong (which happens quite a lot  )

[northern coyote]

yeah, I seen the bird, but we never even realized what we had till we got home and pondered it over on the nwtf website for a spell

[alscalls]

Where are the beard and spurrs?

One of my dear friends sent me a pic on my phone of a turkey and said "12 1/2" beard 1 1/2" spurs" I went over to his house and had tape measure in hand. Wound up being 10 1/2" x 1" Nice bird but a little exadurated only because he was excited and did not really know how to measure it.
I would  imagine 18 1/2" would more than drag the ground.

[pitw]

I can understand the throw the beard and other parts away.  I was brought up to not waste the meat.  When I was sixteen I shot the biggest whitetail of m life and Dad threw the head and hide in the dump with the rest of the dead farm animals.  Then in 86 I shot another fair buck [198 3/8] and was throwing it away also except that some dang fool trophy hunter seen it and said I had to measure it up.  Won some trophy that coolected dust for 5 years before I threw it out.  Hunting doesn't always mean bigger is better.