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Big Bird
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:08 pm Posts: 604 Location: Christiansburg, VA
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Other uses for your birds
Just wondering how everyone goes about using the birds they take besides eating them. I have started drying wings for use in the field. I always save the beards and spurs. Out of habit I save and dry each tail fan. I keep telling myself that I will get my trophy room organized but that has not happened so they are still in a neat pile in my basement... Haven't tried using the wingbones yet. What else do you do with them?
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:36 pm |
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STRIKER1300
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:33 pm Posts: 938 Location: BIG LICK VA.
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I MAKE WING BONE CALLS FOR SOME V.I.P. I KNOW.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:51 pm |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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It's a secret... but I'll let everyone in on it soon!
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:53 pm |
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RONnTN
Longbeard
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:24 am Posts: 182 Location: Knoxville, TN
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I started making wingbone calls. i also save every feather i get my hand on. A guy i work with is Cherokee and he and his family use them in alot of the crafts and things they make.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:57 pm |
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Limbhanger
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:49 am Posts: 331
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I provide feathers to my fly tying friends and I also donate feathers to my local pre-school; they use them at Thanksgiving to make holiday related art...the kids love it!
-Eric
_________________ Love those Limb Hangers!!!!
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:55 pm |
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Turkenator
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:28 pm Posts: 333 Location: Wise County, VA
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I cape a few birds every now and then. I keep the wings to use in the woods (for flydowns, fights, etc)... and I'll keep some for myself and others to use for calls. I usually always keep feathers for my fly-tying buddies and those that like to use them for fletching their arrows... and I always keep the beards and spurs.
I made a pretty cool looking spur necklace that I have hanging on my rearview mirror inside my truck.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:00 pm |
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HODY
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:08 pm Posts: 1565 Location: Central VA
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I save wingbones, tailfans, of course Spurs and beard. Sometimes I gove feathers to folks that ask for them for various reasons.
_________________ "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:19 pm |
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Struttinbird
Longbeard
Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:03 am Posts: 285 Location: Alleghany County
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I glue the breast feathers to the sound board under some of my glass & crystal calls. They make a very pretty call.
Keep em Gobblin!
Struttinbird
_________________ May he step to the music he hears however measured or far away. Thoreau
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:28 pm |
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caddis
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:38 pm Posts: 543 Location: Augusta Co, Va
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Other uses
Sent the feathers off a couple of birds last spring to a fly fishin bud of mine in Montana..he now has enough to last a life time..so he says...
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:20 pm |
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Diablo
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:46 am Posts: 832 Location: SC by way of WV
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all of the above and have had wing feathers cut and shaved to make arrow fletchings
_________________ "A man who insists on adherence to the facts when it comes to his hunting exploits, size of fish...abilities of his bird dog...is an untrustworthy fellow. A fine sporting liar is a gentleman & someone whose acquaintance should be cherished" R. Ruark.
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:21 am |
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Dale
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:27 am Posts: 1907 Location: Roanoke, VA
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I've been saving the wings for drying to use for flydown. Last year I made a few wingbone calls and I've got plenty to learn still. I usually save the tail fan and dry it to put on the wall. Beard and spurs go on the string for every bird. I may try to cape one this year.
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:40 am |
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barry
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:44 pm Posts: 2720 Location: Bedford, VA
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other uses for your birds
The tail feathers make one of the prettiest Holiday wreaths I've seen.
The feathers are placed at an angle into a circle of styrofoam or straw.
Add a red bow to the middle and there you go.
We did one several years ago and put it on the silent auction at our NWTF banquet. Brought $75, all the money went to our JAKES youth program.
Takes the tail feathers from several birds to make a wreath.
barry
_________________ "Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:04 pm |
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daddyj43
Poult
Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:48 pm Posts: 17 Location: Chesapeake/Suffolk
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Re: other uses for your birds
barry wrote: The tail feathers make one of the prettiest Holiday wreaths I've seen. The feathers are placed at an angle into a circle of styrofoam or straw. Add a red bow to the middle and there you go.
We did one several years ago and put it on the silent auction at our NWTF banquet. Brought $75, all the money went to our JAKES youth program.
Takes the tail feathers from several birds to make a wreath.
barry
Got any pictures of this wreath? My wife's crafters eyes lit up with the idea. Now it's all on me and the boys.
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Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:29 pm |
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catfish hunter
Poult
Joined: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:14 pm Posts: 8 Location: harrisonburg, VA
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Turkenator wrote: I made a pretty cool looking spur necklace that I have hanging on my rearview mirror inside my truck.
i like that. got any pics of how you did it?
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Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:58 pm |
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Turkenator
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:28 pm Posts: 333 Location: Wise County, VA
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I don't have any pics of "how" I did it... but how I did it was simple. I took a hacksaw and sawed above and below the spur going all the way through the leg. Once you have it off the leg, clean all the bone marrow off the leg bone and sand it down smooth. Then just add some polyurethane or whatever you choose to give it a nice gloss. As time goes by and you get more spurs just keep adding them to a piece of rawhide string until it suits you.
Finally, go kill a bunch of limbhanger's 'cause it takes a good amount of spurs to make a decent necklace.
I will post a pic of the one I have soon.
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Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:29 am |
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