Professional taxidermist?!!

[Harris hawker]

Holy crap!!
I took the turkey tail and fanned it out.
I watched a YouTube video on how to fan a tail.
It was stupid easy and super better than expected.

 

[Chopperdrvr]

That looks really good. I love DIY stuff. I'm working on camo-dipping my new "go to" rifle project. I figure if someone else can do it, so can I.

 

[Harris hawker]

I couldn't believe how crazy ez it was!
I'm ready to start slaughtering birds to fan out tails!!
My hawk is lucky I like him!!

 

[Chopperdrvr]

Oh, that wasn't your hawk? I thought you got tired of feeding him and had him for dinner?

 

[FrankT]

Have you ever stuffed a hawk?

 

[Harris hawker]

Have you ever stuffed a hawk?

I'm going to answer this seriously.
Highly illegal to do that.
Just FYI.
Keeping feathers of native no game birds, blue jays, owls, vultures, is highly illegal for you or I to own.

If you find a feather and a game warden sees you with it, you killed that bird to get that feather.
That is how the law interrupts it, I order for you to have possession of that feather you must have killed the bird to get it.
This is for native birds such as blue jay, cardinals, GRACKLES (yes they are protected).
Pigeons, starlings and English sparrows are invasive species and are not protected.

 

[Harris hawker]

Have you ever stuffed a hawk?

Now not seriously.

No I like mine deep fried in peanut oil!!

 

[FrankT]

LOL, so I pick up a hawk or eagle feather at the lease(yes we have both) and put it in my hat I am breaking the law? Wow, is this Fed or State by State?

 

[BigRedDog]

Do you hear the black helicopters coming for you yet Frank?

jk

 

[Harris hawker]

LOL, so I pick up a hawk or eagle feather at the lease(yes we have both) and put it in my hat I am breaking the law? Wow, is this Fed or State by State?

Yes I know Florida has both.
And yes.
ESPICALLY eagle feathers.
Illegal and you could be facing jail time.

It's fed law, adopted by the states and it's also international law.
Due to the CITES act.

http://answers.usa.gov/system/templ...tal/1012/article/4026/Eagle-Feathers-or-Parts

 

[Harris hawker]

I'm a realist.
If I see someone with an owl or hawk feather I don't care, and I have seen it.
But if I see someone with a hawk tail fanned out, then I get mad.
A feather is ok, a lot of feathers is not ok for me.

 

[FrankT]

So an idiot like me thinking maybe a buzzard or turkey feather on the ground and picking it up, I could get in trouble!

 

[Harris hawker]

Frank were All idiots.
I dare one person on here to say they never picked up a feather.

It sounds dumb but the reason is more needed now than when the law was Enacted.

Falconers have to put up with pigeon people.
A pigeon person was trapping and killing hawks and falcons cause they were eating his pigeons.
When he got busted, the LEO pulled out 2, five gallon buckets full of hawks and falcons feet.
Think about that.
Not full birds, just their feet.
That's hundreds of birds killed for a stupid pigeon.

That's why laws like that exist.
You just get caught in the middle.

 

[Harris hawker]

Oh, and as stated before.
Game birds are exempt from this law.
Obviously you can legally kill turkey's.
So having their feathers is legal.

Buzzards are not a legal game bird.
So they are illegal to have feathers of.

Dove, quail, snipe, duck, any bird you can legally hunt is legal to keep feathers from.

 

[FrankT]

I most of the time don't know what the feather is off of so better leave them all in the woods unless I kill it.

 

[Chopperdrvr]

That reminds me of a prank I pulled on a Fed. employee a few years ago. I live on a Corps of Engineers owned lake and needed to talk to someone at their office. When I walked in, there was a nice full size display case as you walk into the office with several items on display. One was a beautiful full mount bald eagle. The clerk walked up to the counter and asked if she could help me at the same time I was admiring the eagle. In a very serious and straight face I turned to her and asked if those were good to eat. She was horrified and said that YOU CAN'T EAT THOSE! I said sure you can, I'm from south Louisiana and I know a lot of people who eat them. I just wondered if they really taste like chicken like they said they did. During this exchange, the boss stepped out of his office behind her and realized I was kidding and just kept quiet and let her suffer. He was quietly laughing his butt off. I think she would have killed me if she had a weapon.

 

[Harris hawker]

There's a joke like that.
Punch line is " it taste like spotted owl"

 

[Chopperdrvr]

I'll have to try to remember that for next time I get to mess with someone's mind.

 

[Ratdog68]

I love showing people my polar bear tooth, while wearing my coat that has the polar bear fur ruff around the hood.

 

[Harris hawker]

I love showing people my polar bear tooth, while wearing my coat that has the polar bear fur ruff around the hood.

Wow,
Like for real?
That's cool