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Re: Spurs
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2015, 03:21:32 PM »
Very Nice batch of box calls on the table.  A couple of them almost look like they were done by Jerry White.

Dad's Custom calls  :dunno:

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2015, 03:46:23 PM »
Very Nice batch of box calls on the table.  A couple of them almost look like they were done by Jerry White.

Dad's Custom calls  :dunno:

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2015, 08:18:15 PM »
Wow, what a bunch of spurs. At first I figured you had a guy with little hands in your hunting party  :chuckle: :chuckle:. But man, some of those things are amazing. My biggest is 1 1/8" but no point to it at all. Came off an old fighting bird missing 4 or 5 tail feathers, my second Washington bird from right over where you are headed. Good luck to your group, and thanks for sharing so much, I bet it helps you when you get here  :tup:.

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2015, 09:46:49 PM »
Here are a couple of klickitat county birds i called in for my wife and a buddy from two springs ago.  First is my wife's 1 1/4  second is a buddies 1 1/8 spurs.

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2015, 05:08:15 PM »
My Washington Eastern from last year
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Re: Spurs
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2015, 06:05:45 PM »
Those are some great spurs for Merriams.  I know it will never happen, but if I could somehow find a merriam that would go 1.5" I would have a grand slam of 1.5"ers.  A kid can dream

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2015, 06:24:17 PM »
And here are the spurs on the bird i shot a couple hours after i called the bird in for my buddy.   Probably won't break any records :chuckle:  I should probably add that it had an 8 1/2" beard and a full fan.
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Re: Spurs
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2015, 08:43:14 PM »
Here's a pic of my Teanaway bird 2yrs ago

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2015, 07:10:42 PM »
For a  Merriams, this is decent:





This was a fall bird a few years ago, I shot it the day before thanksgiving, it sure was tasty.  I thought it would be tougher than my boot, but it had 1/4" of fat on it and was as good as any bird I ever ate.  I watched it for 2 weeks waiting for the right moment, and on my day off, it made the mistake of sticking to its pattern. 

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Re: Spurs
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2015, 07:52:46 AM »
I couldn't get a better picture, but check out the hooks on this one from this AM:


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Re: Spurs
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2015, 08:17:06 AM »
Those are some awesome spur collections!  :tup:
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Re: Spurs
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2015, 09:11:05 AM »
Nice birds

I couldn't get a better picture, but check out the hooks on this one from this AM:



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Re: Spurs
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2015, 06:11:43 PM »
Here are a few of the nicer Merriam's spurs from our hunts last year!
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Re: Spurs
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2015, 06:17:29 PM »
You guys get some dandy spurs. All the birds around here seem to ware them down like crazy. I have never killed a bird that has points on there spurs. Always rounded off.
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Re: Spurs
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2015, 12:50:57 PM »
Dale, those look like the birds we see in Texas.  The Merriams we kill in Nebraska have shorter spurs than ours but are still sharp.

 


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