Wild turkey wing feathers, although a bit thinner, can also be saved for the same purpose. Flank feathers of wood duck drakes are highly prized as speckled wings on dry flies for various fly patterns.

Specifically, the department wants hunters to save the ninth and tenth primary wing feathers and three-to-five breast feathers. Turkey hunting suspended in Kansas this season “Once hunters have ...

In fact, they are louder than any other subspecies of turkey. Like Merriam’s, Rio’s, and Osceola’s, the eastern sports black-and-white wing feathers. However, eastern turkeys contain much ...

Many hunters save parts of their wild turkey, mounting the fan and beard on a plaque, or stringing the spurs through a length of rawhide, sometimes adding the spent shotshell that scored the harvest.