03-13-2013, 05:27 PM
Do you guys have both the Rio and Merriam in Idaho? We have both here depending on where you hunt. We mainly have Rio's where the wife and I hunt. I may have killed a Merriam a few years ago but didn't realize it until the wife and I took pictures with both birds together that we had taken that morning. We noticed the tail feather trim and tips of back feathers on my bird was more white than her bird and that the bars on the wings showed more white than the black bars. Sent a picture to a friend who is a CO in that area and he said it looks like it could be a Merriam. The tail fan now sits on top of my B Mobile decoy and it was good for 3 toms last season. I included a picture of both toms, my bird is on my right, one of you guys that has killed Merriams may know if it is or not.
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