How To Remove A Wild Turkey Fan And Beard

Not everyone wants or can afford an expensive full body mount of their turkey harvest. The fan and beard make great trophies, and they’re a simple DIY project for even the most novice sportsmen.

If you're fortunate enough to harvest a wild turkey, chances are a great story lies behind that day’s events, and you’ll likely want to preserve the memory.

Not everyone wants or can afford an expensive full body mount of their turkey harvest, but the fan and beard make great trophies — and they’re a simple DIY project for even the most novice sportsmen.

Josh Honeycutt from the National Wild Turkey Federation knows just how to do that. Watch Josh demonstrate how in a simple three or four minutes you can have your turkey fan and beard ready to take home.

Josh called in this bird with Hunter’s Specialties’ H.S. Strut calls at Shuhart Creek Whitetails in Warshaw, Illinois. Shooting a Mossberg 930, he delivered a shot of Hornady Heavy Magnum Turkey and was field-dressing in no time.

RELATED: Learn how to field dress a wild turkey.



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