bow kill and mount?
 

anyone shot birds with their bow and got them mounted? if so did they turn out ok? I have a buddy that swears a bow kill would run the mount...who knows....what do you guys think?

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Some people think that because the broadhead cut some of the feathers off, it will turn out bad. And unfortunately some taxi's don't do a good enough job and the mount comes out looking like a turkey with a bald spot. But a good taxi, will take the time to position each and every feather in that area to make the spot disapear. Just like a big bullet hole in a deer, it is trimmed, sewn up a particular way, and the hair groomed, same thing with a turkey!

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Actually bow shot turkeys make a nicer mount. You do not get all the stray bb's cutting feathers off. It sounds funny but my best friends a taxidermist and he showed me the difference. You probably wont even ever notice the feathers that get cut from bb's unless you are a taxidermist. I know my archery turkey mounts are nicer then my shotgun mounts.

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Here's one that a friend of mine got with a bow

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and here's another one my friend got a year before.

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RD - that flying turkey mount with the arrowis awesome. One of the coolest mounts I've ever seen.

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Those are some AMAZING mounts

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Thanks guys , my friend is really proud of them.
The bird in the flying mount was 19 pounds with a 10 inch beard and the struting mount was 22pound with a 11 3/4 inch beard.
My frind arrowed them out of a ground blind on his sisters farm.

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Yeah my dad shot one with a bow and had it mounted. It really shouldn't affect the mount at all.

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My triple bearded bird that I arrowed last spring is still at the taxidermist. I'm anxious to see how it turns out because I used a large mech. head and it left a pretty big hole in the turkey, BUT the taxidermist said he'd make the hole dissappear. We'll see soon!