I was asked to make a very old fashioned and handmade object for someone that that came late in life to hunting. The intended recipient is 64 years old and just last year he went pheasant hunting for the first time. He got a deer license this year and spent days in the woods, but didn't pull the trigger...still had a good time. He is now busy trying to figure out what the heck the crazy lure of turkey hunting is all about.
And a friend of his wanted something to give him as a gift this spring. So, I dug around and found a set of wingbones from a gobbler that had wandered in front of me while I was sleeping in the woods cradling a shotgun in my lap. He scared me and I accidently discharged a load of shot in his snood. The button is a shed from a fork whitetail and the beam on the other side is from a mule deer. The wooden base is a slab of walnut that I scavanged from a pallet....turns out this guy used to work in the corporate office of a major trucking company (lots of stuff on pallets in them trucks!)
