15 3/4" beard

[limbhanger]

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/04-19-08_1452.jpg
Not a real good pic. He had 1 hair that made it to 15 3/4", (couldn't run the camera and stretch it out too) couple more that went 14" or more. The second beard was 4 3/4". Weighed 20#, only had 3/4" spurs.

[turkeyhunter91]

that is a big beard.

[Big E]

congrats. i had one similar last spring that went 14.25" on several strands.

[Bradley]

wow you don't see that every day

[notimlmit]

Cool man Congrats on the bird

[Scott7m]

hmmmmmm........... you mean if a couple strands make it that long it still counts as lets say a 15" beard????? i always just measure to where the most of them tend to end.. i didnt' know that you counted each lil strand

[kentuckyyeti]

In thje early 90's I had the number two bird in the state on the books. The official scorer counted the longest strand. I don't know ifthat's the right way, but it's what he did and it put me in the book for a little while. Congrats, limbhanger on a fine bird.

[hollandhunter]

yea thats how we have always measured them. By the longest hair. nice bird. My dad killed a nice bird the other day. It had a 10 1/2 inch beard and a little over 1inch 1/8 spurs.

[RutNBuck]

not saying its the case with your bird but i have seen and even did the stretching out the beard only to have a strand or two come loose making it look much longer..
Nice Bird

[turk2di]

not saying its the case with your bird but i have seen and even did the stretching out the beard only to have a strand or two come loose making it look much longer..
Nice Bird

Me too. Gently make sure its attached & not loose but stuck in place by dried blood. Hope it attached for you tho;)

[jsc3150]

Congrats, That is an awesome double beard.

[12 pointer]

lets see, if I grow 1 hair on my chin to 20 inches but the rest it 3/8 then I can consider tht I have a 20 inch beard???????? The majority should rule in my opinion.

[Scott7m]

lets see, if I grow 1 hair on my chin to 20 inches but the rest it 3/8 then I can consider tht I have a 20 inch beard???????? The majority should rule in my opinion.

thats what i'm thinking... I killed a tom with 3 beards once, if i would have counted the longest strands, it's hard telling what it would have measured out, his main beard had a few strands that were extremely long, longer than in that pic, but i never would have dreamed to count single strands lol

[limbhanger]

lets see, if I grow 1 hair on my chin to 20 inches but the rest it 3/8 then I can consider tht I have a 20 inch beard???????? The majority should rule in my opinion.

Only if you are going to be scored for NWTF, their rules, not mine. From NWTF.....
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/how_to_score.html


"Measure the beard length (a beard must be measured from the center point of the protrusion of the skin to the tip) and convert it to decimal form."

[Labrador]

Everything that I have ever read indicates to measure the longest strand.

[limbhanger]

not saying its the case with your bird but i have seen and even did the stretching out the beard only to have a strand or two come loose making it look much longer..
Nice Bird

When I killed him, he was standing in muddy creek bottoms, completely covered the underside w/ mud. I washed the mud out of the beard, even lost a few hairs by doing that, so no blood/mud holding the beard together.

[Getchasum]

Thats a zz top beard

[huntindawoods]

Big ol beard CONGRATS on the bird

[gobblergetter]

always measure the longest strand. NWTF rules not bragging rights :)

[GSP]

lets see, if I grow 1 hair on my chin to 20 inches but the rest it 3/8 then I can consider tht I have a 20 inch beard???????? The majority should rule in my opinion.

Get a BIG arm load of 3' sticks and one that is 6'. Try going through a 4' door without turning sideways. Which rules, the longest or the majority.
:eek::D

[Ignert]

Get a BIG arm load of 3' sticks and one that is 6'. Try going through a 4' door without turning sideways. Which rules, the longest or the majority.
:eek::D
That's an awesome analogy!

[GSP]

I killed this one yesterday.
It had a 14 1/2" stray.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/GSP/turkey2025.jpg

[Double T]

lets see, if I grow 1 hair on my chin to 20 inches but the rest it 3/8 then I can consider tht I have a 20 inch beard???????? The majority should rule in my opinion.


If you happen to be a turkey, and wish to know how your beard will be accurately measured.....ummm, yeah. :D

[limbhanger]

Nice bird GSP, what did he weigh? spurs? Is that a double beard?

Kinda looks like the "majority" says measure the longest hair.

[DearDoctor]

Last year the world record beard was measured at 22.5 inches. It was thick and long but only a few strands were 22.5 inches.

www.lonestaroutdoornews.com/content/view/79/27/ (http://www.lonestaroutdoornews.com/content/view/79/27/)

[GSP]

Nice bird GSP, what did he weigh? spurs? Is that a double beard?

Kinda looks like the "majority" says measure the longest hair.

Thanks, Here is the bird.

Tagged out
First Double Beard Bird

#1 - 14 1/2"
#2 - 5 1/2"

22 pound
1" spurs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/GSP/turkey2019.jpg

[hollandhunter]

nice bird he would make a good looking mount.

[hollandhunter]

again its not all about the longest beard it's just a plus to the hunt when it happens. But JMO longest hair is the measurement.Any bird is a nice bird though.