She shoots, she scores!! MORE PICS ADDED ON PAGE 2

[Mike Manassa]

Man that's awesome!!!  

[vtmtnman]

That's insane.I've never seen or heard of a five bearded bird!Congrats to both of you!  

[sou-pawbowhunter]

[Steve O]

Super job!

[PICKNGRIN]

Now that's the way to do it!!  Our season in Iowa opens tomorrow.  I am hoping my turkey jinx will end this year!!

[bolong]

         Super job!

[OkKeith]

Hey guys,

Lisa and I sure appreciate all the "atta boys"!

We had a great time. We hunt a 2 bird county, so we are headed back out next Thur. to fill our other tags.

We crossed the big creek on the property and saw 2 more longbeards over there, heard several others, not to mention the one that was with her bird Sat. morning. Plenty of birds to chase.

One of our good buddies on the lease got a bird that was a match to ours the middle of last week as well. Hard to beat NE Oklahoma big timber bottomlands for good turkey hunting!

Thanks again for all the congratulations!

OkKeith

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats  

[KSdan]

Congrats. You should check too- hers may just make the record book!

[Dave Bulla]

KSdan, I was thinking the same thing.

A bird pretty much NEEDS to have multiple beards to score well and 5 of them should really help.  I'm not much into scoring stuff but I once saw a bird mounted in a gas station here in MO that I believe had a plaque saying it was (or had been) the world record.  I think it had 9 beards and all of them added up made something like 63" of beard?  That just stuck in my mind and is the only "experience" I have about turkey scoring.  I think it said they used the weight, total beard length and spur length.

[OkKeith]

Dan/Dave,

We have the beards and the spurs but they will have to believe us on the weight. Everything is processed and the breasts are already sliced up to make Turkey Parm with homemade sauce.

We checked the bird in with the Dept. of Wildlife Conservation but I don't know what type of data they keep. Her bird's spurs were a smidge over an inch. My bird weighed a pound less than her's (22lbs) but had a little bigger spurs. The beards were the same length. Mine only had one but it was really thick.

I think some sort of record book deal or something would be GREAT for her. She could care less though. She has the tail, beards and spurs we will hang on the wall with our others and the pictures to add to our album.

The coolest thing is that we were together when we got both of them. What about Compton? Knowing her the way I do, being reconized by a Traditional Archery organization would mean more to her than anything else would.

OkKeith

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[Over&Under]

You guys are some gobbler shooting machines!!!

     

[rushlush]

Congrats!!!