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Adams gets World Slam for wild turkey     from The Post Searchlight

10-year-old Keenan Adams displays his World Slam of wild turkeys as he gets together with Robert McCullough, president of the Decatur County Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.

August 12, 2003
Keenan Adams, son of Roy Adams, has become the youngest person to record a World Slam, collecting all six species of wild turkeys in the world. Adams, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Grace Christian School, has been hunting with his father and his uncle, Z.A. “Buddy” Adams, who also have world slams, since he was 3.

He began his trek toward the world slam in 1998 when he harvested an Eastern turkey on Adams Brothers Farms in Decatur County. The Eastern species has upper tail coverts that cover the base of the long tail feathers and are tipped with chestnut brown.

In 1999, Adams killed a Rio Grande turkey at White Rock Ranch in Abilene, Texas. The Rio Grande is about 4 feet tall and copper colored with disproportionately long legs.

The third species of the slam, an Osceola, was killed in 2001 at the Whitesprings Pines Ranch in Flagler County, Fla. The Osceola species contains feathers which show more green and red colors with less bronze than the Eastern species.

Adams killed his fourth species, the Merriam’s, in 2002. He killed it on Rosebud Sioux Tribe land in South Dakota. Adult male Merriam’s are distinguished by their nearly white feathers on the lower back.

Adams harvested his fifth species, the Gould turkey, in Chihuahua, Mexico. Goulds are the largest of the five species and they have longer legs, larger feet and larger center tail feathers than any of the other wild turkey subspecies in North America.

In 2003, Adams completed the world slam by harvesting a Ocellated species at Itzamna Ranch in Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. Ocellated turkeys have bronze green body feathers.

Adams credits is father and Uncle Buddy with teaching him to appreciate the land and wilderness. “My dad and Uncle Buddy always emphasized hunting safety and doing well in school,” he said. “They expect me to be on the A honor roll at school.

Adams said he’s not allowed to miss school during out-of-state hunts, but his teacher gives him his school work for the week. He’s not allowed to hunt until he’s finished all of it. “Turkey hunting is my first love, but I also enjoy fishing, deer hunting, dove hunting and duck hunting. I have taken six eight-point bucks and had limits of duck and dove.” Adams also plays soccer and baseball. He was selected to the All-Star soccer team in 2002 and to the 9- and 10-year-old All-Star baseball team in 2003.

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