I had a great opening week killing 2 birds.
Bird 1 was 23lbs 11.5" beard and 1 1/8" spurs killed at around 25yds.
Bird 2 was 19lbs 9.5" beard an 3/4" spurs killed at 14yds.
The first bird had barred tail feathers in the middle so I decided to make a fan mount. I had a thin piece of ambrosia maple that had split so I sanded it and sealed it with Tru-Oil. I took a piece of cherry and cutout a spearhead, sanded and sealed. All that was left was cleaning up the spurs and putting them with the beards.
Looks good!
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Look good
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Nice!
Looks nice. Good work there!
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Solid mount
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Thanks guys
Very nice job!
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That looks great congrats on a job well done
for the heck of it......how wide is the fan ???
Looks like 27.5" wide on the fan
Nice!
Looks great!
Quote from: Tom Foolery on April 22, 2018, 06:09:58 PM
Looks like 27.5" wide on the fan
Funny things w/ measurements. my biggest fan is 27'', the bird had a huge head and huge feet , but only weighed 15 lbs, had only 3/4 spurs and a 8'' beard....all others weighed about the same but had much larger spurs and beards ,but 23'' to 24'' fans....that largest fan came late in the season so the low weight could come from an active breeding season........these were all Osceola birds
Here is a pic of the biggest fan I have. This bird was a shade over 25lbs and strutting next to another mature bird he dwarfed him.
It's hard to see in the pic but it's 28.75" wide.
as previously stated in past threads, the weight,beard and spur lengths vary a lot on birds of the same age...a large, older bird might have smaller spurs for example....I believe the size of the fan should be included with the other normally mentioned measurements...
Very nice!
Looks nice.