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Do any of you guys have a cool way of displaying beards and spurs from the turkey you have killed. I have seend guys that cut the spurs off and put them on a leather lanyard. Anyone have any pictures of something they have got set up?

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Mike, my buddy cleans the spurs off and puts them on a string like you mentioned. He has a few of these "necklaces" and they come out when they are complete.

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A buddy of mine does the same thing with the spurs. For beards he glues them into the shotgun shell he used to take them and has a display rack with holes in it for the shells. It looks pretty nice. I know that doesn't apply because you bowhunt them, but I figured I'd throw it out there.

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Yeah, i have seen the shotgun shell thing, that is a neat idea...

Trying to come up with something creative like that....hmmm

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Here is a leather lanyard I made with some of mine and an arrowhead at the bottom. First try at adding photos so we'll see.

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i cut the spurs off above and below them..skin the bone, get the marrow out and dry them and clean them up nice..hot glue the beard into the brass base of the shell i shot him with and put and put a eyelet screw through the primer..put a spur on leather lace then the beard then the other spur..some guys do beads and such and make them look nice...the one i did like that hangs from my rearview mirror...ill try to get a pic for ya later on...

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that is some good ideas

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Fletch, thats an awesome looking lanyard/necklace you got there! You have killed a BUNCH of turkeys looks like!


Any ideas for the beards besides the shotgunshell one?

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Sorry Michael, I've got about 40 beards laying in my gun case trying to figure out what to do with them also. I am finishing my basement right now to make a trophy/game room and want to display them somehow. I would also love some good ideas. I love hunting turkeys and have been fortunate enough to hunt them in several states with good luck.

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Alright, well hopefully someone will help us out with the beard idea!

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I made a couple of these. Just folded some construction paper in half and cut out a form that I liked, then jigsawed out of a piece of wood that I got at Lowe's. Each one holds 14 beards (7 on the left, 7 on the right). I have a double-beard hanging in the middle of this one. The beard holder itself is just a piece of square dowel with notches cut into it (dremeled). Easy to add a new beard, just pop out the two screws, hot glue in the new beard, and screw it right back on. Easy Peezy Japaneezy.

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Haha, nice!

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a buddy of mine used these ends to a wooden dowel rod that was hollow and glued them in those. he had like 50 beards and many were too fat to use shotgun shells so he improvised. then strung them through a string that was pinned from one corner of the room to the other. looked pretty sweet and he and his son are still addin to the string. wish i could show pics but he lives 1 hour away so thats not an option. ill look around and try and show you what those little cups look like.

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i really like that display board as well.

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This is my sons room displaying his 2006turkey tail fan and some of his beards. His 07 bird is getting a full mount :). Mike this one is not actually done yet. Im going to mount his beards in shotgun shell ends. Its just old barn wood made into a shadow box. Not what your looking for but i thought i would post it anyway :DThats his 06 buck, and yes guys thats a pic of Jessica Simpson between the mounts :D[8D]

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The barnboard is looking pretty good(at least it looks like barnboard) as a backround on the plaque.

That's my favorite type of wood,..... when you can find it.;)