Video: Heavyweight Turkey Championship?

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posted on July 8, 2016
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If you've hunted turkeys, odds are you've seen a couple of gobblers fight—or, at the very least, tear up a decoy. It happens. It's not often you get a brawl quite like the one in the video embedded above, however. Allegedly filmed in Minnesota, according to its YouTube description, the video features a pair of rather nice longbeards trying to tear each other a new one. The video's owner filmed about three minutes of the smackdown, but claims in the description that it'd go on for another 15. Impressive stuff.

Check it out with the video embedded above, or by clicking here.

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