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Another vote for super cool experience you have had. I would like to know more about how far he has traveled, how old they estimate to him to be, when they banded him, etc. Thanks again for sharing your experience and information with the group.
 
That's a first that I've heard of. What are the procedures involving TWRA? Do you send the equipment back in to them and do they let you know the results of what was recorded or how this bird was followed, etc?
 
Yeah called them and they took the turkey carcass for autopsy, and the Transmitter. I kept the band and a $75 gift card. I haven't received any info on the turkey.
 
I honestly was more fired up about a henless hot 3+ year old turkey at 12:30 in the timber than the Transmitter/band.
 
I know where they have some collared turkeys on some public land cause I talked to the area manager the other day. Already been several birds shot out of that area. Not sure how many gobblers they banded or how many have been shot.


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Congratulations on getting your bird. Certainly unique.

The results of this study may be interesting,
but believe TWRA has been making a big mistake statewide in making no significant changes to our turkey regs, years on end, knowing we have a declining turkey population.
 
Congrats on the unique trophy!
I was lucky enough to take two like it in South Carolina back in 2016. LSU was in on the project. Grad student working in it sent me some really neat maps of the birds' movements, including the day I harvested him.
 
Southern Sportsman":33eimhfp said:
Have you gotten info back on the band yet?
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No info on the turkey. I think it was just a tracking device that a group out of Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Missippi, or Iowa had on him to know where to hunt. It was outta control.
 
Roost 1":1c05mf62 said:
KDFWR did a gobbler mortality study several yrs ago. My buddy killed the last gobbler with a transmitter, he had been netted as a jake and was for a fact 5yrs old. The bird had 1" spurs...
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That's cool. Where the spurs dull and broken or just never got to over an inch? Sharp and curved?

Goes to show that once they get over that two year old 1/2"-3/4" blunt nub you really can't tell, although if I ever kill one that's got those 1-1/4" curved sharp spurs I call em 5 just to make myself feel good.


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Levee Jumper":1vj7y8u6 said:
Southern Sportsman":1vj7y8u6 said:
Have you gotten info back on the band yet?
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No info on the turkey. I think it was just a tracking device that a group out of Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Missippi, or Iowa had on him to know where to hunt. It was outta control.
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So someone tagged a turkey to know where turkeys lived in order to hunt them? Not sure I'm following?


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th88":2l6upw35 said:
Congrats on the unique trophy!
I was lucky enough to take two like it in South Carolina back in 2016. LSU was in on the project. Grad student working in it sent me some really neat maps of the birds' movements, including the day I harvested him.
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Could you tell us how far the bird traveled and all? That's really interesting. Your bird may show otherwise, but I've seen them go 15 miles from wintering flocks to finding breeding grounds.


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I killed one in Mississippi years ago that wore a transmitter. MSU was doing a study on how far they ranged.
My bird had a home range of about 5 square miles.
 
bull":taon0mtv said:
I killed one in Mississippi years ago that wore a transmitter. MSU was doing a study on how far they ranged.
My bird had a home range of about 5 square miles.
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Thanks for sharing. That's about 3,200 acres.wild turkeys have a lot bigger home range than what lots of people think.


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