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West Virginia Turkey Hunting

By: DIY-Doug

Posted on: 11/02/10

Not better place than the Wild, Wonderful state of West Virginia to chase long beards.

Turkey

Comments

Very Nice

Submitted by Critter done on Wed, 2010-11-03 12:37.

Very nice Tom. West Virgina is on my list of states to hunt and film in. When I go if I ever can, I hope I get one as nice as yours.

Congrats on getting a super nice bird.

WV Turkey

Submitted by DIY-Doug on Tue, 2010-11-02 20:25.

Thanks.

Not huge, I think the beard was just over eight inches and I honestly don't recall the spur length. What I most recall was an amazing morning in a hay field, watching two gobblers fight, the winner bread a hen and then come into my decoy...and getting it all on camera.

Turkey

Submitted by outdoorsman121 on Tue, 2010-11-02 20:12.

Verry nice Gobbler, how long is the Beard and the spurs?

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