duckriver
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Check this out. My taxidermist said he killed it here. Beard and spurs looked messed up. But the coloring looks like a Rio to me.
Rio??
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woodsman87
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I killed one bird many years ago that was colored up like a Rio Grande.
It also had huge, deep pink legs, with big pure black spurs. Huge head, and weighed 24lbs. 24 lbs is an absolute monster from the area that I shot it in.
I do not think it was a Rio Grande. Probably a wild turkey with somehow some Rio blood in it and possible domestic blood in it.
It also had huge, deep pink legs, with big pure black spurs. Huge head, and weighed 24lbs. 24 lbs is an absolute monster from the area that I shot it in.
I do not think it was a Rio Grande. Probably a wild turkey with somehow some Rio blood in it and possible domestic blood in it.
Southern Sportsman
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The Easterns in parts of Missouri look like that, but I've never seen a TN eastern with buff tipped secondarys. Pretty cool.
I hunted one several years back that had buff tips like that. He was super cool. I never got him.
duckriver
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So y'all think it could be one over here? Killed in southern Hickman
Southern Sportsman
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I don't they they're "Rios," just an eastern with buff tipped tail feathers. True rios are usually quite a bit more colored up than that one. Cool bird for sure though.
