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Longbeard larceny: The rite of spring

By Lynn Burkhead
ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Norman MacLean, the sage flyfishing scribe who penned "A River Runs Through It", wrote that he was haunted by rivers. Not me, I'm haunted by turkey beards, especially those foot-long appendages that have swung merrily from the spring turkeys that have snubbed their beaks at me over the years. For a bird that generally weighs less than 25-pounds, longbeards drive me nuts. You see, for years, I've had a special place reserved in my study for a double-digit bearded tom, complete with sharp, nast ...

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