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This tom was hanging around last Spring not far from where I hunt. I think it is a so called smoke-phase eastern. If so, they claim this is a genetic abbe ration that occurs in one of every 100 birds...almost always hens.So, I guess this tom is a pretty rare bird. I don't know if I could bring myself to bloody those pretty feathers or not. What say, guys...would you shoot him??
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With great enthusiam and without hesitation, yes.
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IN A HEARTBEAT!!!!!............That's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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There have been 2 killed in Ga so far this year and the general consensus on them is that they were Royal Palm domesticated. Guess they got with wild birds and joined in with them
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I think that may be a domesticated bird that got loose & probably should be taken out of the breeding scenario.

IMHO, there is just too much white for it to be a smoky. A smokey is more of a light tan rather than white.

You may want to take/send the pic to the DNR for an opinion.
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Looks more like a Royal Palm than a "smoke gray " color aberration, but most domestic turkeys don't survive long in the wild. There is no indication that any of the three color aberrations are sex-linked.
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decoykrvr wrote: April 8th, 2018, 4:06 pm Looks more like a Royal Palm than a "smoke gray " color aberration, but most domestic turkeys don't survive long in the wild. There is no indication that any of the three color aberrations are sex-linked.
We had a domesticated hen running around for 2 years. By the time we got the OK from the DNR to take her out, she had disappeared.
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A Royal Palm in someone's yard? I'll pass. Now a smoke phase wild gobbler? Bang!
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Thx for the link. The tail on the above bird has much more white than the 1 in your link.
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This was a "flock" that showed up at Gobbler's Roost last fall. Turns out that they were from across the road.
The 2 jakes look wild & I'm wonder if they didn't join up out of loneliness. That gobbler doesn't realize how
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I want a smoke phase bad. Bad. Got in a lease in a county with that reputation. Hunting another place with 3 smokephase hens. Still gonna take winning the lottery
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I don't think that's a wild bird, but ive been wrong before.
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I'd rather kill this one!
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The brown and white ones are Bourbon Reds, also called Royal Red Bourbons, a domestic turkey that left someones barnyard. I used to raise them, very friendly and never get mean, a great bird for little kids to be around.
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I would shoot him in a heartbeat and get him done. He would make an awesome mount.
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Looks like it’s hanging around in somebody’s yard but it prolly still eat like the rest of them. You can prolly walk up to it and catch it 👍🏻
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MKW wrote: April 8th, 2018, 5:53 pm I'd rather kill this one!
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Had a smoke phase hen that hung around our place in NE Ok for a few years. Nick named her salt & pepper. Cool birds no doubt would defiantly whack a longbeard that color with no hesitstion.

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BANG FLOP!
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we have those genetics around here, have seen quite a few hens [ from the road ] over the years, never a gobbler. if its a true wild bird, I wouldn't think twice, gobbler or hen [ in the fall ].....
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Re: smoke-phase tom

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no i wouldn't shoot it, to pretty to look at (plenty more elsewhere).
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