My 2012 Eastern Euro Mount. A shift leader at work did these for me. Pretty cool.
Now I need to come up with a plack to mount the tail and beard on.
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He did one skull and the neck and skull of the second bird.
That's cool. Not hard to see what happened to second bird. Those pellet holes give it good character.
I really wanted to try that this year but forgot to keep any heads
When you try it go very slow during the boiling process. The bones are very tiny and fragile. The head and neck are from two different birds. The first I shot up the head and the second, I shot up the neck. He put two together to make one.
I like it! Not what I was expecting when I clicked the post...lol
I bet ya getting the heads beetled would be a lot easier than boiling them. I might do it next year or this year if I get a fall bird. Looks pretty sweet.
Sweet!
Could you clean them by putting them in a bucket with water and letting it sit and do its thing for a few weeks then clean it and whiten it?
Nice.
Neat mount! Never saw a euro mount of a turkey.
Nice one, Steve! Did you see the one I did for my mom? I wanted the mouth open, like yours, but that little bone above the lower jaw broke on one side, and it was just easier to repair it mouth-closed. I also like the looooonnnngggg neck on your mount.
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Quote from: captin_hook on June 25, 2012, 03:45:52 PM
I bet ya getting the heads beetled would be a lot easier than boiling them. I might do it next year or this year if I get a fall bird. Looks pretty sweet.
I had a small colony and did duck heads all the time. They make quick work of it.
Man that second bird got a noggin' full of lead :smiley-char092:
That is cool looking
Do you have any estimate of the time you did boil the bones?
That is awesome! I give all my heads to our local taxidermist so they can send them off to freeze dry them! But these are very cool
Quote from: mohall64 on June 27, 2012, 08:24:48 PM
Do you have any estimate of the time you did boil the bones?
He said that it was about 4 to 4.5 hours total but did it over several days.
Quote from: blackmagic on June 27, 2012, 12:04:42 AM
Quote from: captin_hook on June 25, 2012, 03:45:52 PM
I bet ya getting the heads beetled would be a lot easier than boiling them. I might do it next year or this year if I get a fall bird. Looks pretty sweet.
I had a small colony and did duck heads all the time. They make quick work of it.
Oh, I want a colony but I believe my wife draws the line on that one! She already complains enough about the animal carcasses, skins, and bones in my shed, not to mention the amount of hours I spend in the woods. Got to keep the wife happy!
I have a question about using beetles on turkey heads. Has anyone on here tried it, and if so, what were the results? I was wondering if the beetles would eat at the turkey's beak (and the spurs on the legs). Maybe Blackmagic can help me out with that one; did the beetles gnaw at your duck beaks?