On Saturday, April 15, a Tennessee turkey hunter named Cameron Freshour bagged a once-in-a-lifetime tom. It weighed 18 kilos with a set of 1 1/16-inch spurs, which is pretty frequent for an japanese gobbler in that a part of the nation. However in line with the Tennessee Wildlife Sources Company (TWRA), the uncommon chicken sported greater than half a dozen beards with a mixed size of 43 inches.
“To our shock, there was one thing completely different about this chicken,” Freshour later advised WJHL Information Channel 11. “We began inspecting him and stated, ‘Oh, he has two beards … wait truly three … no 4.’ He ended up having seven beards in whole.”
In response to the TWRA, about 10 p.c of all gobblers have a number of beards, with most of these having simply two or three. The official Nationwide Wild Turkey Basis (NWTF) world file had 13.
Freshour was looking along with his spouse when he tagged the seven-bearded trophy. In response to an article within the Greeneville Solar, he lured it into taking pictures vary with a number of brief yelps and the help of a decoy geared up with a practical tail fan. Freshour reportedly entered the chicken into a neighborhood turkey looking contest, wining first place honors and a model new turkey gun.
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The turkey scored 125.5 on the NWTF scoring scale. The world file gobbler—tagged by a Pennsylvania youth hunter named Tyler Mumpower in 2017—weighed 22 kilos. Its 13 beards measured out at a mixed 77.9 inches in size.
This yr, Tennessee’s turkey season began April 15—two weeks later than regular. The Volunteer State additionally set a brand new bag restrict of simply two birds as an alternative of three, restricted jake harvesting to at least one solely, and outlawed reaping on public lands.
