Trad Gang

Guys- I have harvested about 30 birds in the past 17 years+  Another 15 with my kids.  I have a bunch of really good ones with plenty of 1.25" spurs +.  Lots of 10-12" beards along with multiples.  I have a few of the fans mounted, first for the kids etc. . . But have never had the cash for a full turkey mount.  What do you guys do with your beards, spurs etc. for display.  Would love to get some ideas on what to do.  Thanks

Dan

you can buy "beard boards".  Check out walnut creek hardwoods.  I buy all of my plaques and stuff from them when I do fan mounts.  I also take the spurs and cut the main leg bone around them so I have about an inch to an inch and a half of leg bone with the spur on it.  Then I take a pocket knife and skin the leg bone so its down to the white bone.  Clean teh marrow out and the tendons and carefully cut around the spur till the "cap" works loose.  Then I boil just the leg bone in a strong detergent.  Let that dry and then place the leg bone in a thing of bleach to get that white color.  Once that process is done I take a sharpie and mark the very tip of the spur "hook" black to coincide with the black on the spur caps.  Then a little fletch tite in the cap and place it all back together.  Run some green para cord through the hollow leg bone and you can hang the spurs on the same hook as the beard on your beard board so you know what spurs went with what beard.  
Thats what I do.

I love these.Place to clip the beard, mount the fan, and a picture. Real nice wood too.

http://www.midwestturkeycall.com/detail.asp?pid=TK1&cc=T&dn=1

My dad does great Turkey wall mounts. Ill try to get picks up when he gets back from Alaska.

I've skinned a tom with the fan spread out and the beard hung below.  Also done fan and spread wings.  Friend cuts legs/spurs like Dustin mentions but keeps the skin and he has a necklace with the best spurs on it.  Fan boards are nice.

Here's what we did with my wife Harriet's first bird.

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Rudy

I like that Rudy!  Very Cool

This would be a realistic pose..at least from most of the birds that I saw this year.

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Ron,
We must have been hunting the same flock as that is all I got this year also.

I'm getting a "Roosting Tom" mount, like this with the bird I got this year.

  (http://www.shrewbows.com/rons_linkpics/Turkey_Roosting.JPG)

Thats the same mount I'm going to get too.  It's going to be a loonnngg wait till November when I get my hog and turkey back.

(http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/cjohntalk/1306986145.jpg)

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Here is one style my father does. Sometimes he adds a turkey head and uses a all the back feathers. I just dont have any other pics at the moment.

(http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/cjohntalk/1307058466.jpg)

I just keep the beards unless they have some unusually long spurs.  If I was ever going to have one mounted though it would be hanging upside down dead.  I do like that one.

Ron's "bird" photo is still killing me. LOL

Charlie I really like the first mount done by your Father,very nice.

yes, Love the 'bird' photo!

I make fans, wing bone calls, and use the feathers on quivers, and some other things
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(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm177/WhiteFalcon_photos/DSCN0626.jpg)

I have seen where guys just use the brass end of 12 Ga. shotgun shell, beard, an on a board lined up. Pretty sharp an don't take up much room.   :saywhat:

I make a fan mount with pegs, one good van and plenty of room for beards and spurs.
(http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/fan_sm.jpg)

I am kind of a skull guy-

(http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/BlakeOwenFischer/2011-06-04_22-02-14_695.jpg)

Blake

blake that skull is cool i did a yote this year am going to do a bird and got some folks after a snapper. this is from 08 will post another tomorrow of a board i have.


(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g193/hnt2mch/9001.jpg)

here's another thing i got goin

well that didnt work try again

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