In early March my daughter celebrated her 14th Bday. 10 years earlier, we had went on our first turkey hunt together. After sitting about 15 minutes a gobbler and hen came in and I was able to harvest it. At the time, the wing bones had been saved and quickly put together into two calls. Recently, I stripped the calls down and rebuilt them as a surprise present for her. I chose purple and pink wrapping b/c she was wearing bright pink boots on and was drinking a small grape drink on the hunt. I also enlarged the 10 year old harvest photo to go along with the calls. Where has the time gone?! Thanks for looking!
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Some gorgeous treasures for sure
awesome
Those are awesome keepsakes I'm sure she'll treasure forever!! Awesome!!
It doesn't get any cooler than that!
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Good job on those bones Stephen! I bet she will cherish them for years to come!
Steve, Great story and its awesome you re-did those bones and selected the colors for the wrapping. I hope she uses it on a future hunt. :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
That's awesome!
Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
those look awsome,what do people use to wrap the joints with? i have made some wingbones and would like to wrap them similiar to these but dont know what kind of material to use,you really made a great looking set there.
That is absolutely awesome! What a great treasure! I wish I thought of that with my boys first. Great job Dad. WTG!
Greentag, I think most use a two part epoxy to build the joints up and then wrap them with some sort of thread. Usually thread that is similar to what custom rod builders wrap with.