Syracuse.com - Liverpool barber, 86, gets his gobbler this past spring turkey hunting season in Central Square

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David Detlor shot a 19-pounder. Submitted photoDavid Detlor loves his work and he loves to hunt.The 86-year-old Liverpool barbershop owner is an active sportsman. This spring he got his gobbler during the turkey hunting season, which ended at the end of last month.The bird weighed 19 pounds and sported a 9½-inch beard and 7/8-inch spurs. He shot him on land in Central Square with his single-shot, 20-gauge shotgun.“Stop by the shop and I’ll show you the fanned tail feathers and beard,” he said.Detlor said he continues to work nearly every day in his First Street barbershop. He’s a member of the Greatest Generation, having fought in World War II and survived the Battle of the Bulge.He’s also a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and said he has hunted nearly every opening day of the turkey and deer hunting seasons for more than 50 years.Each fall for the regular deer season, he and his wife, Ceaira, take their small camping trailer and set up on private property near Truxton. They stay for 3½ weeks and both hunt deer, he said.When he’s gone from the shop at that time, he said, he takes a deer head mount down from the wall and puts it on a barber chair with a sign that says, “GONE HUNTING.”

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