Post by HillBillyJeff on Sept 24, 2018 14:38:51 GMT -5
Posted some trail cam pics on fb and mentioned it would be easy for me to tag one of these this fall, but I want an adult bird not a jake. Guy commented that those in the pic are all adult birds.
I replied they're super jakes cause they don't have the full tail yet.
Now I know these aren't this year's poults, so they're last year. Makes them roughly 18 months old. Beards are plenty long enough, but I am questioning the fullness of their tails. Now I've read some articles that say a super jake will have a full tail. I think they're mistaken.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Even judging their head size and body size I'm saying these were hatched last season.
Now the only time I've ever shot one of these was in my second season of hunting 2010, in the fall I popped what I thought was a tom. But his wasn't high in the center of the tail, there was none there. Did he drop his young tail feathers out the top, and the new adult tail feathers not grown in yet?
I replied they're super jakes cause they don't have the full tail yet.
Now I know these aren't this year's poults, so they're last year. Makes them roughly 18 months old. Beards are plenty long enough, but I am questioning the fullness of their tails. Now I've read some articles that say a super jake will have a full tail. I think they're mistaken.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Even judging their head size and body size I'm saying these were hatched last season.
Now the only time I've ever shot one of these was in my second season of hunting 2010, in the fall I popped what I thought was a tom. But his wasn't high in the center of the tail, there was none there. Did he drop his young tail feathers out the top, and the new adult tail feathers not grown in yet?
