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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 8:06 AM Last Edited By: JJoe | ||
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Borrowed from another site....Useful info
Okay you have gotten your bird and would like to mount your fan for either the wall or maybe using on a Jake decoy to make it look more real. So let’s get started. First thing is to cut the tail as close to the main body of the bird as you can. You will feel a “V” shape of the tail bone (Same as a chicken and ya all eat chicken!). This cut is done just above the anus. Grab all the tail feathers and bunch them – take a small knife and cut through the bone and body till it looks like this. 
I use a piece of plywood with drywall screws placed as such. Place the fan on the plywood good side down. The meaty portion of the tail needs to be facing you. 
I then take the right bottom feather shaft of the fan and put over the drywall screw. I stretch the fan out and place the left feather shaft over the left dry wall screw. 
I then position all feathers and place a wood strip over the whole fan likes shown. Once I have all feathers arranged as I want them I tighten the dry wall screws so the feathers don’t move. 
I then add Table salt and mound the meaty portion of the tail real good. I will check this several times over 3 months and may add more. I just put mine in the basement – You really need to keep it away from animals, mice and insects. I will spray the tail with several light dustings using a typical House & Garden household spray – such as this can of Raid. 
Now I use almost everything from the bird. I make a wing-bone call and date it with the bird stats, area I hunted and add the spurs and have put the beard in the spent shot-shell casing I used. I like to mount mine using a piece of drift wood to place on a shelf. The beard I let dry in a cup of borax with the meat portion down and the spurs I cut and put in borax too. When dry I just clean the marrow out of the leg with the spur. I don’t do anything else to them. I will thread them on a leather lanyard as show. 
Finished product 
Cons: There is another way to shave off the meat and bone and preserve yor fan but I have never done it. It will make the fan much easier to mount as the bone is gone. Or you can do this – add it to a Jake Decoy. 
Now all I did for this is make a real thin plywood bracket in a “U” shape with a 1 inch spacer bottom. All is painted flat black to which I use wing nuts and then a 1/8th by 14 inch metal stake. I jstu stick this in the ground behind my Jake or you can add this to any Pretty boy. Mine have lasted for 5 yrs now and are no worse for wear. I used them in wind and rain. Just dry them out and spray them lightly with Raid House & Garden at the end of the season and I store between two pieces of cardboard to protect the feathers. It is light to carry into the field. 
So if you have a better idea let’s hear it! I hope this helps Here is a wall mount that has been up for almost 8 yrs 
And let's do the beard. Pull the beard back and cut away from the bird at the white skin show here. 
I started tp cut away the beard 
Another look - I cut just past my thumb and the soft skin past the end of the beard you will feel. 
You will feel a knob like thickness if you squeeze past the beard. Cut off past that and don't worry about excess skin. Trim that skin and place in a bit of Borax for a few weeks Here it is cut away. 
Now the spurs You can air day the leg - I sue nothing to preserve them and have many legs I use for demonstration for my Hunter Education classes. To get them to dry in a certain configuration use rubber bands. OR I save all spurs and this is what I do if I do not want the leg 
These is jsut put in a cup of Borax. Once a few months ahve passed I clean out the Marrow with a Que-tip and thread onto a lanyard - That's it! 
Here is my hat Band!  __________________ ´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((((º>
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 8:16 AM | ||
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That is awesome! I love the hat.
So, what's a wing bone call? Obviously a call made from a wing bone, but I mean, how does it work? __________________ "Joe Bow & Arrow" Pro-Staff
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 11:43 AM | ||
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here's something else to do w/ the spur
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 11:53 AM | ||
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:08 PM | ||
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:09 PM | ||
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love the hat. __________________ http://stores.shop.ebay.com/doc-waters-fishing-lures
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:28 PM | ||
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Sweet!! __________________ Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:44 PM | ||
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great info thanks __________________ common sense is not so common
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 9:29 PM | ||
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To preserve the fan just buy a primos b-mobile fa holder and follow the instructions. Then glue the secondary feathers with a hot glue gun. Takes about 20 min and you don't have to worry about bugs. Then you can slip the holder in any fan mount plaque you want or use it for your decoy tail __________________ "There is wonder in every day when you connect with the outdoors and the life that is wild and free. Just never forget who is inside your house and your heart. Life is never better than when it all fits as one." ...telefante
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 9:32 PM | ||
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 9:38 PM | ||
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It only takes 5 mins to remove the tail bone and clean the meat off and it should definitely be done then a little dry preservative or salt. __________________ No Limits Outdoors
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| Posted: 25 May 2009 5:24 PM | ||
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great post
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| Good info. Thanks, maybe I will get to try it tomorrow | ||
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great info thanks __________________ Sub-Committee Member for Pheasants Forever 6-Mile Run Project
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| Posted: 08 May 2010 11:54 AM | ||
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very nice 
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this may be 1 of the best post on here,...thanks __________________ LET THEM GO,SO THEY WILL GROW...3.5+
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