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Post by huxbux on Aug 16, 2006 22:00:33 GMT -5
Took me a while to get around to it, but I finally got this year's turkey mounted.  |
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bigred
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Post by bigred on Aug 17, 2006 8:49:35 GMT -5
Nice mount. I like the barn wood. I have a deer skull with the antlers I found, real nice buck. Somebody must have not been able to find it. I am thinking of mounting it on a long piece of barn wood with a turkey fan behind it. Maybe tie the skull on with old barbed wire. I like the way you put the wing feathers on.
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Post by mullis56 on Aug 17, 2006 9:32:27 GMT -5
Nice mount.
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Post by bsutravis on Aug 17, 2006 11:07:36 GMT -5
Looks good huxbux! I too love the barn wood!
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Post by huxbux on Aug 17, 2006 19:19:40 GMT -5
Thanks all. I was trying to think of something different for this one, and thought it looked pretty good on the weathered siding. Adding the wing feathers was an afterthought. If you look closely, I put some wampum I found in a creekbed as spacing between the spurs
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 17, 2006 19:21:34 GMT -5
Looks great.
The wing feathers do top it off.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Aug 18, 2006 13:11:16 GMT -5
Cool mount. I like the wing feathers too.
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Post by bsutravis on Aug 18, 2006 14:13:19 GMT -5
Call me stupid.........what's wampum???
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Post by huxbux on Aug 18, 2006 22:52:45 GMT -5
True wampum is beads crafted from clam or whelk shells, usually barrel or disk shaped. They were strung or used for beading on belts, and sometimes used as barter by Indians and fur traders. These I used are actually fossilized, segmented worms found in gravel bed streams. After very long periods of time, the action of moving water breaks the segments apart into disk shaped pieces with a perfect hole in the center. Doughnut shaped is a good description. Perfect for stringing on a necklace or for use as beading. I used the term wampum a little too liberally here I suppose. They are not genuine wampum, but they do fit the definition of disk shaped beads. So I suppose you called me out on this bsutravis. They do make a neat natural souvenir though. The grandkids had fun finding and collecting enough of these on a recent canoe trip to make themselves an unusual and unique necklace.
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Post by bsutravis on Aug 19, 2006 2:05:53 GMT -5
Didn't mean to call ya out Hux, I had never heard the term.... Very cool idea!
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Post by Decatur on Aug 22, 2006 10:47:45 GMT -5
Great looking mount Hux!
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