Beard suggestions / turkey cape and spur necklace

start a turkey scalp stick! like Indians do with human hair!

Cool necklace! Did the dog get the head on your turkey?

I've never seen a caped turkey with the head.

Been thinking of a cedar plank, and just hanging the beards from it (setting the beards inside the spent shell cap). Any thoughts on other suggestions for displaying beards?

I saw a guy that made a necklace a little bit like yours only it had the beard as the central focal piece. It was hanging right in the center of the necklace lowpoint where you have that larger single tan bead. If I remember right I think he also cut off the brass from the shotgun casing that killed the bird. removed the primer and mounted the beard in the brass to pretty up the ugly end of the beard and make it easier to attach to the necklace. I thought it looked really cool.

PBH said:

I've never seen a caped turkey with the head.

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Honestly just asking? ??

What is a caped turkey? Is it a full mount without the head? Or is it just a skin? Is it something you do to save the bird so you can mount it later?

I looked up turkey cape on the net and none of the ones i saw had wings attached like yous does.

sw -- yes: a turkey cape is just the skin. I opted for the cape because I had seen some others that I thought looked nice, and they don't take up a ton of room. It was also very easy, quick, and cost me about $2.00.

I have seen other hunters that display the turkey wings along with the fan (Google "turkey wing mount"). I've also seen some turkey hunters that hunt multiple species (merriams, eastern, osceola, rio, goulds, hybrids) keep single wings as display pieces to help others (or themselves?) with turkey identification. I cut the wings off my bird, and allowed them to dry. I then decided to attach them to my finished cape.

I had never seen it done either (wings attached to cape) -- but I liked the outcome, so I left them.