A spring gobbler!

[Tom]

I got a Rio Grande here after many scouting trips and the second weekend of hunting him. I used the new 3.5 inch #4, which is a real mean shell. We mostly have those in Texas. Some easterns are in east Texas though.
http://community.webshots.com/user/tominsa
has some pictures under turkey. He's my biggest ever, 10 13/16 inch beard and 1 3/16 inch spurs. Would that be big for you?

 

[Ithaca 37]

Congratulations!!! Yes, that would be a great Rio Grande for anybody!

 

[1_pointer]

Congrats on the fine turkey!!! How do Rio's compare to Eastern's in size?

 

[Nut]

Congrats Tom!!!!!! I hope to someday to take a turkey in Texas. It would be awesome.


Vipe would tell you that she just recently took a "turkey" to Texas.

 

[Kraven]

ALL RIGHTY Tom.Thats a fine looking bird you got,congratulations to ya.

 

[AA]

Tom, that's a nice healthy lookin bird,going by the spurs he was a 3 yr old. I am still seing alot of birds near my home everyday, I jest wished I had time to hunt em.


Again, congrats on a good Rio...... AA

 

[snite66]

Thats a great looking bird Tom. What did he weigh?? The turkeys we saw while we were down there looked to pretty close to the same size of our eastern birds.

 

[Tom]

I got that bird's big brother on the last weekend. There's more pictures at the same place, the first 5 are from the first turkey, the second five are from the second one. They weighed in the low 20s but I don't know what, the taxidermist just guessed 23.

 

[Elkhunter]

Congrats on the turkey.

 

[ELKCHSR]

That's some fine looking birds, You are looking way to happy. Must be a momentus occasion I am missing....HAHAHA!!!!
Good goint and congrats!!!

 

[The Viperess]

Congratulations TOM.