New KY Record Bird - Pictures

[GSP]

Here is some pictures of GrouseGuy’s buddy, Shannon Spears
from Franklin, Simpson Co, KY.
This should be the new Non-Typical State bird.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid62/p94aab866a647d31e722ab97dc31d5dd3/fc1d9926.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid62/pfc279f5e2f60ccc5973540c9b7cb14db/fc1d9923.jpg


Scoring by:
Scott Cheek
Back to Nature Taxidermy
Scottsville, KY

Beard #1 11.1250"
Beard #2 10.5000"
Beard #3 9.6250"
Beard #4 9.1250"
Beard #5 9.2500"
Beard #6 7.4375"

TOTAL Beard Length: 57.0625 x 2 = 114.125

Spur #1 1.0000"
Spur #2 1.0625"

TOTAL Spur Length: 2.0625 x 10 = 20.625

TOTAL Weight: 21 lbs

TOTAL SCORE: 155.75

Only .75 out of the top 20 nationally! This has to be the
KY State Record Non-Typical!

Congratulations on a bird of a life time Shannon!
Rick - GSP


"Life's too short to hunt with an ugly dog".

[P. Beyer]

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What a Turkey! Congrats to Mr. Spears!!!!!

"It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent"

Fred Bear

[ceohunter]

I had heard of other birds coming from that county that had 1.5 inch spurs etc. Must have something to do with hunting pressure?? They usually have a low harvest rate. So that means not many birds or not many hunters?

[grouseguy]

Thanks gsp for posting these pictures for Shannon.

Now that you guys have seen the bird and Shannon...pay close attention to Shannon's hairline...you can now see why we have accused him of baiting this turkey with corn laced with his supply of Rogaine.[:p][:D][:o)][:0]

Now you know the "rest of the story" about this freak of nature...the turkey, not Shannon.[;)]

[RutNBuck]

Congrats to him..

dandy bird i heard of another 5 beared bird the (hunter) says its 5th biggest ever in state...BUT i havent seen the score sheet

"A wise indian once said,the more you move the less you will see,the less you move the more you will see"

" I live to hunt, but my wife says i may hunting a place to live"

[N2hepcoop]

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AWESOME SHANNON!!

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That is the one thing about turkey hunting, You never know what youre going to get!! A big ol Christmas present!!

[greenskeeter]

Great bird, thanks for sharing the pics!

[turk2di]

Wow, that is some bird. Congrats!!!!!!!

what u get out, is what u put in

[silenthunter120]

Man thats alot of beard! Way to go Shannon.

[grouseguy]

Unfortunately for Shannon, it appears there is a challenger for the state record. Check out www.kentuckynwtf.com "Trophy Room" for more info. It is nearly incomprehensible to me that two birds could be taken in the same year that completely destroy the state record, surpassing the existing record score by over 20%. That would be the equivalent of two hunters tagging 240+" typical whitetails in the same season.[:0][:0][:0]

[raktrakr]

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i think that could happen this year.[:p]
congrats on the bird,you done a fine job

raktrakr
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[HardinCountyHunter]

What makes a bird grow multiple beards? Between my hunting partner and I, we have harvested 7 birds in the last 3 years on my place and all have single beards. No one in my area of Hardin County as gotten a multiple bearded gobbler, that I know of. My hunting partner is friends with a guy who said many of the birds on his place have multiple beards. What makes the difference?

[schuyler olt]

I don't think anyone is really sure. There are both genetic and environmental theories, but I'd say the most widely held belief is that it is genetic. It does seem that if you see one, you tend to see several more, especially with bearded hens. As to having two birds of this caliber in one year, obviously it's unusual since it's never happened before. On the other hand, think how many hunters were in the woods this year than, say, five or ten years ago, and think how many more birds we have. So the odds of taking two birds of this caliber are much better than they were in the past. The year I killed my 29+ pounder, that was the 4th heaviest bird in Kentucky until that year, when the new world record was killed in Kentucky and there were about a half-dozen birds over 29 pounds taken. Since then, there have been several birds of that weight taken, and I doubt I'm even in the top ten or twenty. Have birds like these always been around? Probably, but they were needles in the haystack. Today we have both more needles and more searchers, so that's my theory on why we see two of this caliber in a single year.