But in truth, aging a turkey on the hoof (so to speak ... Jakes also have shorter primary wing feathers with less wear, while older toms have longer, more rounded wing feathers. The coloring of the ...

In fact, they are louder than any other subspecies of turkey. Like Merriam’s, Rio’s, and Osceola’s, the eastern sports black-and-white wing feathers. However, eastern turkeys contain much ...

Many hunters save parts of their wild turkey, mounting the fan and beard on a plaque, or stringing the spurs through a length of rawhide, sometimes adding the spent shotshell that scored the harvest.

The Florida wild turkey is best distinguished from the eastern subspecies, which it closely resembles, by the white barring on its wing feathers. On Florida wild turkeys, the white bars on the ...

Only one turkey can be a jake — an adult gobbler categorized by having wing feathers with white barring to the tip, tail feathers that are the same length and a bearded longer than six inches ...