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<blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 233196" data-attributes="member: 1485"><p>This is an excerpt from a 2011 article, but you get the gist: </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #16171A">[FONT=&quot]The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) keeps records on this sort of thing for those of us who care, and we do. For hunters who register their birds, it's a way to share trophy statistics about the gobblers we love to hunt. What are the longest registered spurs for each of the four prominent stateside subspecies?[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #16171A">[FONT=&quot]<strong>RIO GRANDE:</strong> Three different people have registered Rio spurs that went 2.0000 inches. All three turkeys were killed in Texas.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #16171A">[FONT=&quot]<strong>MERRIAM'S:</strong> The longest registered Merriam's spurs measured 2.2500 inches. Richard G. Brooks shot that gobbler in Meade, South Dakota back on April 1, 1988.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #16171A">[FONT=&quot]<strong>OSCEOLA:</strong> Ironically enough, Patton Perdue shot his record registered Osceola spurs in Osceola, Florida. The total taped at 2.1250 inches on April 13, 2008. In fact, 7 of the top 10 came from this particular Sunshine State location.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: #16171A">[FONT=&quot]<strong>EASTERN:</strong> According to the NWTF, the longest registered spurs for an Eastern wild turkey are 2.2500 inches. Two hunters killed gobblers with those measurements. James E. Lewis tagged his on April 22, 1999 in Franklin, Kentucky. Bill Winn took his in Van Buren, Iowa on May 20, 2001.[/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duckslayer100, post: 233196, member: 1485"] This is an excerpt from a 2011 article, but you get the gist: [COLOR=#16171A][FONT="]The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) keeps records on this sort of thing for those of us who care, and we do. For hunters who register their birds, it's a way to share trophy statistics about the gobblers we love to hunt. What are the longest registered spurs for each of the four prominent stateside subspecies?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#16171A][FONT="][B]RIO GRANDE:[/B] Three different people have registered Rio spurs that went 2.0000 inches. All three turkeys were killed in Texas.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#16171A][FONT="][B]MERRIAM'S:[/B] The longest registered Merriam's spurs measured 2.2500 inches. Richard G. Brooks shot that gobbler in Meade, South Dakota back on April 1, 1988.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#16171A][FONT="][B]OSCEOLA:[/B] Ironically enough, Patton Perdue shot his record registered Osceola spurs in Osceola, Florida. The total taped at 2.1250 inches on April 13, 2008. In fact, 7 of the top 10 came from this particular Sunshine State location.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#16171A][FONT="][B]EASTERN:[/B] According to the NWTF, the longest registered spurs for an Eastern wild turkey are 2.2500 inches. Two hunters killed gobblers with those measurements. James E. Lewis tagged his on April 22, 1999 in Franklin, Kentucky. Bill Winn took his in Van Buren, Iowa on May 20, 2001.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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