Johnsfolly Posted April 15, 2022 Posted April 15, 2022 Story about a very rare turkey shot in NC. My question is would you pull the trigger if you saw this bird? https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/hunter-kills-white-turkey-north-carolina/
Dutch Posted April 15, 2022 Posted April 15, 2022 Nope you can get a white turkey anytime you want and it will already be cleaned. tho1mas and Johnsfolly 2
MrGiggles Posted April 15, 2022 Posted April 15, 2022 There are a couple white hens around here. Seems like every few years there will be one but they don't seem to stick around for more than a couple years. I'd shoot them if they were legal. But I think a white gobbler is pretty rare. Only a matter of time until a predator gets them. Johnsfolly 1 -Austin
Johnsfolly Posted April 15, 2022 Author Posted April 15, 2022 Closest that I came to a white turkey was on a trip out in KS. Had a light brown and white jake on the farm I was hunting. Looked like hot chocolate with mashmallows. The outfitter put a price on that bird that kept me from shooting it. He wanted it to mature. I just sat and watched him for a while. Pretty neat bird. BilletHead 1
MOPanfisher Posted April 15, 2022 Posted April 15, 2022 I wouldn't hesitate to shoot a white one or any color phase. Have seen partly white/black almost like a dominecker chicken, and a bronze/copper colored one, the bronze colored one was the neatest. They are nothing more than an off color turkey, ain't no thing. Daryk Campbell Sr 1
BilletHead Posted April 15, 2022 Posted April 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said: I wouldn't hesitate to shoot a white one or any color phase. Have seen partly white/black almost like a dominecker chicken, and a bronze/copper colored one, the bronze colored one was the neatest. They are nothing more than an off color turkey, ain't no thing. They taste the same so I would not hesitate either. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
tjm Posted April 16, 2022 Posted April 16, 2022 White is not a good color for prey animals, it would get killed by nature soon enough. Probably a good thing to remove those genes from the pool. There used to be a lot of pied turkeys over the hill, but I remember when they were ranging white turkeys outside and always figured those pied birds were domestic cross. tho1mas 1
jdmidwest Posted April 17, 2022 Posted April 17, 2022 Back in the 80's, I hunted an area when the wild birds had mixed with the tame ones. There was one almost white and several mixed. They all looked more tame than normal wild ones. Tail tips were light. I was never able to bag the white bird. But I did take some pics of the flock, on an old 35mm camera. They are in a box somewhere. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
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