limb hanger

n. a male turkey with long heel spurs. Subjects: English, United States, Animals, Insects, & Birds, Sports & Recreation

Editorial Note: Long spurs on a jake are correlated with the maturity and size of the bird. Etymological Note: See the last 2004 cite.

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Citations: [1995 John S. Shinal Usenet: rec.hunting (Mar. 29) “Re: Which Turkey Calls are best?”: The Primos Limb Hanger is nice too, but difficult to call softly on.] 2002 Richard P. Combs Advanced Turkey Hunting (Feb. 1) p. 49: The real limb-hangers are four or five years old or more, and chances are most of them get whipped regularly by two- and three-year old birds. 2002 Montreal Gazette (Can.) (Nov. 25) “Bash planned to mark wild turkey resurgence” (in Ottawa) p. A10: “What we’re trying to do is enhance the population by sort of speeding it up, by bringing birds in and releasing them in the area,” said Dave Arbour, a member of Limb Hangers, a NWTF chapter named after the way the birds perch on tree limbs at night. *2004 Gary Caughman Tomturkey’s Web Page (Union County, South Carolina): I didn’t even have to move the gun, just knocked it off safe and dropped him in his tracks. He scored 18 lbs, 10” beard, and 1 1/2” spurs. A real limb hanger!!! 2004 Bob Gwizdz Kalamazoo Gazette (Mich.) (May 29) “Lt. Gov. Cherry lends hand on turkey hunt”: The Lenawee Limb Hangers (turkey-hunting parlance for a bird with large enough spurs you could push them into a branch to hang the bird) won the drawing and selected Ellis.

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