What's your heaviest & lightest gobbler?

[Cut N Run]

I was looking at some pictures of turkeys I've killed over the years and my heaviest was 24.5 pounds while my lightest was 17.5 pounds. Both were killed here in North Carolina (on the same property a year apart). How about you, what's your heaviest & lightest gobblers?

Jim

[redarrow]

18 lb and 25 lb.

[deerhunt1988]

I've weighed almost every gobbler I've killed and keep track of the stats in a spreadsheet.

Heaviest is 24.25lbs taken in south-central Iowa.
Lightest = 14.5lbs . I've taken two this light. A 1 1/8" spurred eastern taken last week of April in Mississippi and a 14.5lb 2yo Osceola taken opening week. Also have a 14.75lb Rio from western OK.

[guesswho]

24 heaviest. Lightest was just shy of 14. But he was a long spurred Baaaadd Azzzzz. Other birds were terrified of him. Wouldn’t even make eye contact with him.

[Hognutz]

Heaviest was 22# and lightest was 16ish.

[kythunter]

Heaviest = 26lb10oz killed in Tennessee 2019 spring. Weighed on 2 different digital scales.
Lightest = 14-15lb Kentucky long beard. Didn't weigh him but should have he was a 2 year old with a little body, he was light.

[soiltester]

Heck, can't remember how heavy thery were, as they all were heavy when I got back to the pick-up and I believe they are gettin' heavier every year and may have to take a 5th grader along to carry em'

[Hobbes_mobile]

I've not done a great job of keeping track, but seems like 22.5 and 15 (ish).

The longest spurred bird that I've killed was around 16.5 lbs. I've killed a number of lightweight Merriam's that were in that 16 lb range.

[decoykrvr]

Last year I killed a gobbler which tied my heaviest at 25 lbs, but he had 1 7/16" spurs and four beards w/ 34" total length. Several years ago I killed a "mountain gobbler" in an area which has an isolated remanent population of the old native turkeys which look more like Osceolas than Easterns. I killed a 3-4 year old gobbler w/ 1 1/8" hooked razor spurs which weighed 15 lbs., but looked just like a miniature mature gobbler.

[toasty]

My heaviest is 22lbs for a merriam/rio hybrid located at about 6000' that had been eating corn out of a silo from a farmers feed lot. Spurs were 5/8" and this bird was probably a 2 year old. My lightest was a merriams killed at about 8000' that weighed 14.5lbs with 1 1/8" spurs. I can never really tell how heavy they are until I pick them up.

[Swampstalk]

All my birds were Osceola swamp birds. Heaviest was 18.5' and lightest 14'2"

[paboxcall]

Heaviest was 21.6 lbs. Lightest was just over 14 lbs. Both long beards with good, sharp spurs.

The light weight bird I killed was interesting. Got him from almost the exact same tree I had called from the previous year for the old timer in our camp. He killed a long beard that morning ten minutes after they gobbled on the roost, and his was also just over 14 lbs, identical spurs too. It was his first spring bird. He killed a black bear and whitetail buck that same license year.

[firedup]

Heaviest eastern from east TN. 26 lbs
Lightest Osceola 13lbs 7 oz if I remember right.
Both nice long spurred birds.

[Jbird22]

Here in south MS, I'd say ~ 18 lbs. for heaviest and ~ 15 lbs. for lightest.

[Southern Sportsman]

24/17

I was hunting with a buddy once and a bird came in on his side. Tipped the scales at 13.0 lbs on the nose. Perfectly healthy, 10” beard, and sharp 1” spurs. Just a hobbit. Small frame, small bones, not a ton of meat. But his wings were the size of a hens, so I made a couple serviceable wingbone calls out of him.

[SwampDrummin]

25 lbs and 12.5 lbs.

[SwampDrummin]

25 lbs and 12.5 lbs.

25 over was first Illinois bird, the 12.5 was in Mississippi. I pulled the gizzard stones and remember his gizzard was about a 3rd of the size of a normal bird's gizzard.

[Prospector]

I’ve not always weighed but since I have I’ve killed two that made 23lbs. One was a late season old gobbler IMO who had a good beard, deep gobble and looked like a VW Bug strutting... but was a slick leg (no spurs). The other was a 2yo with average beard and spur. Lightest weighed has been 16.5lbs but I also killed a small frame gobbler not much bigger than a rooster years ago. Average beard and spur but also a holy terror on other turkeys.... I think the flock actually may have cheered when that lil Napoleon went down lol.

[SpitNDrumN]

I been hunting thme 25 springs and I didnt start weighing them until 3-4 springs ago. Since I started weighing them 14lb lightest public land in ohio and 24lb heaviest public land in north ga.

[ICDEDTURKES]

We have meat market used to take fat ones too to weigh in certified scale with friends or sal had a few over 26

Not that we weigh um our biggest Spurs are tiny I'd say 15 to 17. Probably do to breeding or strain dunno

[Hoobilly]

26+ lbs

14lbs 10.5” beard and 1-1/4” spurs

Had the weirdest gobble you ever heard

[spider316]

24 lbs 2oz, just a fat bastard in NY, 14 lbs 6oz, "the Ninja" hardest bird I ever hunted. Would gobble once and fly down. 1 1/4" spurs and just plain scared up. Old Warrior, actually felt guilty shooting him, just for a moment ! Was set up above him and he flew down, never gobbled on the ground. Scanning my eyes back and forth and he just appeared, absolutely perfect. Slow squeeze and it was a long Boooooom that echoed forever !

[jdjnicholson]

28 & 15

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[devastator]

22.90-13.40,which was the biggest spurred bird of my life

[swampchicken]

Don't remember the smallest guessing somewhere around 16lbs have killed a few that went 26 and some change