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Bladen County's 'Turkey Mike' has been donating turkey feathers for 15 years

Turkey hunting season has just begun, and there's no bigger turkey fanatic than Mike Davis of Elizabethtown in Bladen County. Mike does more than just hunt turkeys and mount turkeys--his house is stuffed with turkeys!--he plucks the feathers and donates them to an Indian tribe in New Mexico. To date, he's donated almost three million turkey feathers.
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Turkey hunting season has just begun, and there's no bigger turkey fanatic than Mike Davis of Elizabethtown in Bladen County. Mike does more than just hunt turkeys and mount turkeys--his house is stuffed with turkeys!--he plucks the feathers and donates them to an Indian tribe in New Mexico. To date, he's donated almost three million turkey feathers.

Reporter : Scott Mason
Photographer : Chad Flowers
Web Editor : Cory Dinkel
Posted 2022-04-04T18:21:29-0400 - Updated 2022-04-04T18:21:29-0400