Bucktail_Bob

I have a few laying around. What do you all do with yours? I am looking for constructive ideas. I already have a couple of fans and and a nice mount. I guess I could make a broom.

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jepcho

I know what I did, I had about that many beards laying in my hunting room in my basement. Well I left to dog out one day and she destroyed 6 of them!! Chewed them right up!! Pissed me off so bad. I dont know why I have her around after that. Anyways, dont know what you should do, but don't leave them in reach of you lab....lol

krabbiepatty

my dads dog did that to one of mine i left in his shop to dry out i have a few now and i have been saving the shotgun shells also and i was gonna hot glue the beard into the open end of the shotgun shell and make sum kind of wooden hanger that i could slide or drop the shell in and glue the spurs on either side of the shell. I havent done it yet or i would send a picture.

Turkey Goddess

Bob - I know JW does something similar to what krabbiepatty was saying (gluing the beards in the shell casings) and he may have a picture. I was thinking about doing this as well. They make some really nice wood display pieces to showcase beard collections. Some of them run pretty high ($$$) but if you're handy with tools, I'd be willing to bet you could look at a few examples and make something real nice for yourself.

krabbiepatty - I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with to showcase your shell casings and beards - when you do it.

Kim

TURKEY FAN

Ya know.......I love spring gobbler hunting......but i got so many fans and beards and spurs.....i now just mainly hunt the hens in the fall here in Ohio.....but i still get out and hunt the spring just to hear the symphony of gobblers on the roost, but i pass up birds 3 yrs and younger. I only shoot one if he is a big ol Hook daddy!

HomerJ

You get that good a view of spurs before you shoot? Are you in a blind, on a putting green?

Western MA Hunter

I use the McKenzi Cedar beard displays... don't have a pic of mine handy, but here is what it is... looks very nice...
I just put my spurs on a raw after treating them.. I just keep them in salt for a month or so and make sure everything is cleard out in there... then coat them w/ clear nail polish and string them up... like a necklace...

here is the link to the mckenzie ,,,

http://www.mckenziesp.com/Turkey-C1840.aspx

Jackson Bowner

I think if you get a few more spurs like you have lined up there, you'd have a pretty good chain saw chain...