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How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« on: March 18, 2012, 05:03:08 PM »
I'm just wondering what most do.  Do ya pluck'em and cook'em up like Thankgiving or do ya breast'em out and do some kind of stir fry or stew?

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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 05:21:32 PM »
I like to smoke em first... With a 12 gauge that is :chuckle: Normally just cook em like any other bird. We've just boned em out too and made soup.
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 05:26:12 PM »
I cut all the meat off the bones and chunk it up into about 1" squares and bread and fry it :drool:
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 05:31:04 PM »
I only use the breast meat, cut it into strips and fry in peanut oil :drool: :drool: I still have all the legs and thighs in the freezer from years, never cooked them :dunno:

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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2012, 05:33:37 PM »
The legs are a little tuff the thighs are good. I think you have to take and eat all the turkey or you could get a ticket for wasted game :dunno: I like it all so it does not matter for me :IBCOOL:
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 05:37:39 PM »
The legs are a little tuff the thighs are good. I think you have to take and eat all the turkey or you could get a ticket for wasted game :dunno: I like it all so it does not matter for me :IBCOOL:

 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Serious  :dunno: what about ducks and Geese?? You eat their legs?  :yike:

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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2012, 05:39:27 PM »
Why cook a perfectly good Kentucky Bourbon??????  Just pour it over ice, and drink the stuff....  :drool: :drool: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2012, 05:57:40 PM »
Why cook a perfectly good Kentucky Bourbon??????  Just pour it over ice, and drink the stuff....  :drool: :drool: :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:

yeah i drink mine too....
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2012, 06:13:47 PM »
The legs are a little tuff the thighs are good. I think you have to take and eat all the turkey or you could get a ticket for wasted game :dunno: I like it all so it does not matter for me :IBCOOL:

 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Serious  :dunno: what about ducks and Geese?? You eat their legs?  :yike:

Yes take the meat off the bone, save it up and make peperoni out of it! I don't think legaly you are allowed to just breast a bird and throw the rest away. I think that is considered waisting game.
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2012, 06:15:52 PM »
Crock pot the legs until the meat falls off, mix in BBQ sauce and make sandwiches.
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2012, 06:21:08 PM »
Crock pot the legs until the meat falls off, mix in BBQ sauce and make sandwiches.

That is how I do most of my goose.  I figured Turkey was better eating than that?

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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2012, 06:25:15 PM »
Chunks fried up over rice with honey mustard and cury sauce. Good stuff. Crock pot with cream of mushroon soup is pretty good too. I agree the legs are pretty tough. I'm going to try grinding them up this year into burger for chili and see how that works. I've heard from a lot of people how terrible wild turkey is. I think it's the best wild bird I have eaten. Love the stuff.

I agree I like it. I have often thought about taking some burger and making turkey burgers with the meat. I think i might try it this year.
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2012, 06:36:16 PM »
Yes.  Think Arnold Schwarzenegger legs on a pheasant.
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2012, 07:09:11 PM »
I usually breast mine out, and make fingers or nuggets out of them. Makes a couple meals. The thighs baked in a BBQ sauce can make a meal for two. The legs and everything else I can, get ground up usually gives me a pound or 2 of burger. I too respect the bird too much not to try and use all the meat it provides. If I can't take the extra time to do that , then I shouldn't hunt them :twocents:
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Re: How do you cook your wild Turkey?
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2012, 08:55:23 PM »
I like to breast it, then pound out some slices. And make chicken fried turkeysteaks. With all the fixens.  :drool: I'll debone the rest of the bird and grind it into turkey breakfast sausage. Also I boil down the carcus for soup. And the gibblets fried up for snackin.
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