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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU7MM08]
#2883829
08/20/19 09:36 PM
08/20/19 09:36 PM
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 360 TN
Ruger7mag
4 point
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Birds Only does amazing work. He has done 4 for my buddy. He'll be the guy I use if I ever decide to have one mounted.
Last edited by Ruger7mag; 08/20/19 09:44 PM.
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: Ruger7mag]
#2883847
08/20/19 10:03 PM
08/20/19 10:03 PM
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Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,219 shelby county
hootn
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8 point
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I will probably use black wings if and when I kill a rio to put on the wall. that will finish up my mounted slam with all the birds having at 1 1/4 inch spurs. ive already got 4 full body mounts. like I said eastern, osceola, and merriams. also one being a Kansas double beard. at the time it would have been in the top 10 of double beards taken in Kansas. it wasn't a pure rio, a hybrid, with more eastern traits than a Rio.
scott
if i hadnt taken up hunting i might have became a juvenile delinquent or worst taken up GOLF
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU7MM08]
#2884123
08/21/19 10:26 AM
08/21/19 10:26 AM
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Posts: 3,995 pensacola,fl
dagwood
10 point
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10 point
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pensacola,fl
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If it's not wall mounted, you need to plan on an acrylic case or it will stay dusty. Figure 5-600 for case.
jmlane
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU coonhunter]
#2884718
08/21/19 09:01 PM
08/21/19 09:01 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967
Opelika, AL
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Blake Wilson in Union Grove does a jam up job as well. The only person I'd take a duck, turkey, or any other bird to.
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU7MM08]
#2884735
08/21/19 09:19 PM
08/21/19 09:19 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 4,669 Madison, AL
wmd
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 4,669
Madison, AL
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I paid $600 in 2014 to have one done. The guy that is mounting the deer my son killed back in January is either $800 or $850 for a turkey.
Just wondering ... do you have one in the freezer that you are wanting to get mounted or just planning ahead for next season?
"Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two words: other baboons" - D.L. Cheney and R.M. Seyfarth
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: wmd]
#2884775
08/21/19 09:50 PM
08/21/19 09:50 PM
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Posts: 14,019 Some Marriott/Auburn
AU7MM08
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I paid $600 in 2014 to have one done. The guy that is mounting the deer my son killed back in January is either $800 or $850 for a turkey.
Just wondering ... do you have one in the freezer that you are wanting to get mounted or just planning ahead for next season? Planning ahead.
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: wmd]
#2885910
08/23/19 09:32 AM
08/23/19 09:32 AM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,781 USA
Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
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Just wondering ... do you have one in the freezer that you are wanting to get mounted or just planning ahead for next season?
A big gobbler requires some maneuvering to fit into a standard size freezer, even one that's completely empty...
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU7MM08]
#2886003
08/23/19 11:54 AM
08/23/19 11:54 AM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 12,245 Oxford, AL. USA
Big Game Hunter
Doesn’t Know His Code
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Doesn’t Know His Code
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Oxford, AL. USA
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$600 is the bottom of the barrel price. It's harder to hide "mistakes" on birds that it is on fur bearing critters.
For a good quality mount you'd start at $800 and go up from there from what I've seen.
If you want the best; call Shane Smith. All those taxidermists the others listed above that are "great" bird guys learned from Shane. He gets $1500 I think. That's more than I'm willing to pay but he is the best.
IKNOWMYPHUCKINGCODEDAMMITYOUDICKHEAD!!!
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: Big Game Hunter]
#2886176
08/23/19 03:47 PM
08/23/19 03:47 PM
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Posts: 360 TN
Ruger7mag
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TN
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$600 is the bottom of the barrel price. It's harder to hide "mistakes" on birds that it is on fur bearing critters.
For a good quality mount you'd start at $800 and go up from there from what I've seen.
If you want the best; call Shane Smith. All those taxidermists the others listed above that are "great" bird guys learned from Shane. He gets $1500 I think. That's more than I'm willing to pay but he is the best. Shane and John from Birds Only just hosted a 4 day seminar together.
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: Ruger7mag]
#2886177
08/23/19 03:48 PM
08/23/19 03:48 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 12,245 Oxford, AL. USA
Big Game Hunter
Doesn’t Know His Code
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Doesn’t Know His Code
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 12,245
Oxford, AL. USA
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$600 is the bottom of the barrel price. It's harder to hide "mistakes" on birds that it is on fur bearing critters.
For a good quality mount you'd start at $800 and go up from there from what I've seen.
If you want the best; call Shane Smith. All those taxidermists the others listed above that are "great" bird guys learned from Shane. He gets $1500 I think. That's more than I'm willing to pay but he is the best. Shane and John from Birds Only just hosted a 4 day seminar together. I saw that Shane had one last week.
IKNOWMYPHUCKINGCODEDAMMITYOUDICKHEAD!!!
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: AU7MM08]
#2886393
08/23/19 08:02 PM
08/23/19 08:02 PM
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Posts: 1,391 AL
trkymn6f0
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: Clark8907]
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08/23/19 09:21 PM
08/23/19 09:21 PM
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Posts: 219 Ridge Top
bayouturkey
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Mike at black wings wins almost every contest he enters. You got to pay to have the best. His regular mounts look just as good as his competition birds. Only things he does different is give competition birds a butthole. If you don’t mind me asking, how in the hell did you figure this out?
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: Clark8907]
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08/24/19 04:53 AM
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Posts: 2,663 Alabama
OlTimer
10 point
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10 point
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Alabama
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Mike at black wings wins almost every contest he enters. You got to pay to have the best. His regular mounts look just as good as his competition birds. Only things he does different is give competition birds a butthole. Good judges always check for buttholes.....
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Re: Full turkey mount?
[Re: bayouturkey]
#2887136
08/24/19 07:27 PM
08/24/19 07:27 PM
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Posts: 2,176 Elm Grove, La
Clark8907
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8 point
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Mike at black wings wins almost every contest he enters. You got to pay to have the best. His regular mounts look just as good as his competition birds. Only things he does different is give competition birds a butthole. If you don’t mind me asking, how in the hell did you figure this out? I asked him to mount my bird just like he would a competition bird and he said well if you want your bird to have a butthole I will but my process is the exact same. Mike and I have become.pretty good friends over the last several years as well and I have asked a multitude of questions about it. How I know he has been winning all the competitions, well when every couple months he throws up pics of another win on FB you kind of get the point. He won this year at the NWTF and has a bird going to world this year. If I was a betting man, I would put money he will win that as well.
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