Do you guys keep the beard and spurs together from each bird you do you display them separate.
Ive always kept them together but I got some beard board displays that don't have anywhere for the spurs so I'd have to do something else with the spurs.
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This is one way I display my spurs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/20160401_141701_zpsaywjigqr.jpeg)
Quote from: maytom on April 04, 2016, 07:00:33 PM
This is one way I display my spurs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/20160401_141701_zpsaywjigqr.jpeg)
Very Cool display!
Quote from: maytom on April 04, 2016, 07:00:33 PM
This is one way I display my spurs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/20160401_141701_zpsaywjigqr.jpeg)
You make that? Very nice, I like it alot
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Keep the beards with pics and the spurs just get thrown in a jar
Spurs are my favorite part of a turkey. I have a couple of strings, but most of them are in little piles of whole legs (make great back scratchers). I don't throw beards away, but they seem to disappear.
i prefer to keep the beards and spurs together.
I try to keep the spurs on a long leather string and the beards are all keep in a plastic shoe box..I keep all my fans in a large box separated with cardboard..
Got beards and spurs scattered throughout the house. I don't keep them paired together. Try to keep them all but I have lost some over the years.
Quote from: maytom on April 04, 2016, 07:00:33 PM
This is one way I display my spurs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/20160401_141701_zpsaywjigqr.jpeg)
Great looking display!
Mine of recent years are kept together but some have been misplaced in the past during moves and whatever else. Think I'm going to set something up and start leaving them at the camp. It's stationary unlike myself. Planning another move real soon so hard to tell where some will end up at that point.
Nah, Infact I couldn't tell you a single set of all I've killed.
:nice work !!
I keep mine together along with the brass from the shell I shot it with
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Quote from: bammerslammer 50 on April 05, 2016, 05:27:22 AM
I keep mine together along with the brass from the shell I shot it with
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That is a cool idea. Can you share your procedures for doing it? I'm sure you have simplified the method over time.
Quote from: mlisandro on April 05, 2016, 06:35:54 AM
Quote from: bammerslammer 50 on April 05, 2016, 05:27:22 AM
I keep mine together along with the brass from the shell I shot it with
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That is a cool idea. Can you share your procedures for doing it? I'm sure you have simplified the method over time.
Yeah man it's real easy...dry your beard with salt. Clean the skin off the spurs with a knife and I use bleach to wipe the bone down with. Cut the plastic off of the shell. Knock the primer out from the bottom (prolly goes with out saying but I'll say it anyway. Do NOT use an unfired primer). Put 550 cord through the primer hole with the loop sticking out of the top of the brass. Leave about 5in tags hanging out of the bottom. Then you pinch the beard between the 2 tags at the base of the brass and wrap with waxed dental floss. Apply a few drops of super glue to the dental floss and run it it. This will set up hard like a cast. Pit the remaining bit of 550 cord through the holes in the spurs and tie a knot. Cut the slack and burn the ends. Takes about 20 mins after you clean the skin off the spurs.
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Here is another way I display spurs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/MaytomBearddisplays/fdfc1a14.jpg)
Great displays Maytom. Right on!
(http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/ff333/ktgjsm1/9B8CF873-0F1C-42D3-B849-6C7724290860.jpg) (http://s537.photobucket.com/user/ktgjsm1/media/9B8CF873-0F1C-42D3-B849-6C7724290860.jpg.html)
I make a long necklace out of my spurs and hang it on my rearview mirror when other turkey hunters see it they take time to want to talk turkey. I only do it during the season.It always keeps me fired up just before season starts
Maytom, wow that is awesome display how did you rig that skull? man my stuff is pretty lame compared to your stuff I would like to learn more I have lots of turkey legs and beards in the freezer from years past just waiting to find a cool way to display it all
Quote from: bammerslammer 50 on April 05, 2016, 07:11:01 AM
Quote from: mlisandro on April 05, 2016, 06:35:54 AM
Quote from: bammerslammer 50 on April 05, 2016, 05:27:22 AM
I keep mine together along with the brass from the shell I shot it with
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That is a cool idea. Can you share your procedures for doing it? I'm sure you have simplified the method over time.
Yeah man it's real easy...dry your beard with salt. Clean the skin off the spurs with a knife and I use bleach to wipe the bone down with. Cut the plastic off of the shell. Knock the primer out from the bottom (prolly goes with out saying but I'll say it anyway. Do NOT use an unfired primer). Put 550 cord through the primer hole with the loop sticking out of the top of the brass. Leave about 5in tags hanging out of the bottom. Then you pinch the beard between the 2 tags at the base of the brass and wrap with waxed dental floss. Apply a few drops of super glue to the dental floss and run it it. This will set up hard like a cast. Pit the remaining bit of 550 cord through the holes in the spurs and tie a knot. Cut the slack and burn the ends. Takes about 20 mins after you clean the skin off the spurs.
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Thx brother.
I've never kept the spurs and beards from individual birds together. I have a spur necklace made from birds that have special meaning to me for different reasons. First bird, some that drove me crazy for a while, things like that. Other than that, they go into plastic containers.
Some nice displays there guys. :icon_thumright:
Bob
No but I sure wish I did. I try and keep my beards in the empty shotgun shells I killed em with. I do have one very special set of spurs that I use as zipper pulls on my turkey vest though. I got that idea from my uncle
I've never kept a spur. I just keep the beard in the shell used to kill him
Quote from: maytom on April 05, 2016, 07:28:15 AM
Here is another way I display spurs.
Incredible! Looks amazing.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/PKay2004/MaytomBearddisplays/fdfc1a14.jpg)
Maytom I really like the plaques you've done, assuming you made those? if not where did you buy them I'd be interested in that first style you showed?!?
I hang mine in one of my gun cabinets. I started doing it this way because that is how my dad displays his...
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b284/WNYBowhunter/IMG_20160301_132018.jpg) (http://s21.photobucket.com/user/WNYBowhunter/media/IMG_20160301_132018.jpg.html)
I carry my two legs bands on my gunsling for luck...
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