Like the rest of you I'm dying for season to start. Was getting my gear out and ready and decided to look at my beards and spurs, for motivation, you know how it is. When I picked up one of my beards it fell into pieces!!!!! What happened? I lost about 50 beards I've been saving for years! Any one else ever had this happen?
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2011 Team 4 SPURR N' Longbeards
2012 Team 4 Beard Bandits
I can't say in your case, but I lost about 10 a couple years ago. My dumb... Black lab chewed them to shreds! Let's just say I was a little upset with her
Never had any beards fall apart but my mom threw out a shoebox with about 10 beards and some spurs in it when I was in high school years ago. She also chunked my very first bird's fan and beard that was in a walmart sack in the freezer....that was a cool move. I used to collect squirrel tails when I was a kid and kept them in a shoebox....why is it that boys always keep things in shoeboxes?....Anyways I found that box about 5 years ago when my parents moved and picked up one of the tails and it fell apart like your beards did. Had about 20 tail bones and a pile of hair. Sorry to hear about your beards bud. But hey, at least you still got the spurs....hopefully.
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Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. - Fred Bear
LOL! Thanks, some of your horror stories are helping....a little! I guess it was bugs or something, but man those things are hard to come by! I do still have all my spurs, they dont take up as much room in my box. Hahaha
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Turkey hunting isn't a matter of life and death... It's way more important than that!!
2011 Team 4 SPURR N' Longbeards
2012 Team 4 Beard Bandits
JW, I had some in shotshell brass too. From now on they'll get a routine bug spray! Now there just little hairy stumps in old brass! LOL! By the way I'm laughing so I don't cry!
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Turkey hunting isn't a matter of life and death... It's way more important than that!!
2011 Team 4 SPURR N' Longbeards
2012 Team 4 Beard Bandits
My method - I cut as much skin as I can off and then place the meat end in a cup of dry borax for about a month or so. Then flake off the excess borax and glue in my shot hell housing.
I have had no problems with bugs but it is not a bad Idea to spray a light mist of House and Garden Insecticide. Or spray inside a plastic bag and then insert your beards. that is even better yer.
I killed bugs for a living at one time.
JW
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Haha. Yea, thats all thats showing coming from out of the glue, little stubble! All I got left is some old turkey skin thats hard as a rock, and a garage floor that looks like whats under the barbers chair!!
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Turkey hunting isn't a matter of life and death... It's way more important than that!!
2011 Team 4 SPURR N' Longbeards
2012 Team 4 Beard Bandits
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