I ended my guiding this year with a 93% success rate! Only one of my hunters did not kill/miss or have an opportunity to shoot. Unfortunately for that one gentleman, he only had one morning to hunt! I actually called a bird from across the ocklawaha River for him but the tom would not come closer than 90 yds. He was able to harvest a true trophy of a bar hog however.
Anyway, many of the birds had outstanding spurs this year.
One of the best was this 1 1/2" monster killed near the Ocklawaha River.
This next bird was a pasture bird that we have hunted for about 4 years. At 1 3/8" he was a super trophy and was an outstanding hunt.
Many of the birds had 1 1/4" spurs. Following are just a few.
Here are few other exception spurs taken this year including a 1 15/16" Freak! Following courtesy of my friend Roy Huff.
We also harvested a large tom with a Deformed foot.....incredible, even the spur was deformed?
