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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: giddyhitch on April 10, 2009, 12:08:09 PM

Title: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: giddyhitch on April 10, 2009, 12:08:09 PM: Ok, since I plan on getting some turkeys. Let's hear about your favorite way to clean and butcher him.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: tlbradford on April 10, 2009, 12:14:30 PM: Gut right after photos, open them up and let them cool as quickly as possible, Skin out and cut off wings and legs below the knee. Soak in saltwater overnight, Slow roast with lots of garlic, salt, pepper, onions, potatoes, and butter.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: turkeydancer on April 10, 2009, 12:28:28 PM: Remove fan, beard, lower legs and wings ... pluck (easy while still warm), remove guts, cut neck and head off and remove the gullet sack, wash with cool water, triple wrap, put on ice.

I pluck because I like to inject, season and deep fry ... if you're going to cut it up for turkey fingers, soup, etc you can breast and thigh them out.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: LITTLEBUCK on April 10, 2009, 12:32:58 PM: If Turkeydancer is around just act like you dont know what you are duing and before you know it, it's all cleaned a ready to go.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: Wacenturion on April 10, 2009, 12:53:37 PM: Quote from: LITTLEBUCK on April 10, 2009, 12:32:58 PM
If Turkeydancer is around just act like you dont know what you are duing and before you know it, it's all cleaned a ready to go.

:chuckle:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: yelp on April 10, 2009, 01:19:38 PM: Remember transporting your kill leaving evidence of sex..Not that kind of evidence.. :yike: Nothing like going through a check station with a baggy full of drumsticks..Most game wardens probably wouldn't care but if you can leave beard or spurs on till you get home you should be alright.. not sure how the folling WAC applies..leave headOn? And I guess official definition of processed is??
:dunno:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=232-12-267
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: Wacenturion on April 10, 2009, 01:27:00 PM: Yelp.....you said..

"Remember transporting your kill leaving evidence of sex..Not that kind of evidence.. :yike:"

Your baby picture came in handy........
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: yelp on April 10, 2009, 01:36:40 PM: Wacenturian...wrong thread that was from.."cleaning my butt" thread..LOL Damn baby photo! :(
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: Wacenturion on April 10, 2009, 02:17:04 PM: No ...borrowed from other thread to give you a visual of my reaction to you evidence of sex remark.....

hey............want to see it again........lol
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: turkeydancer on April 10, 2009, 02:46:15 PM: Thanks Yelp, I usually leave one lower leg (with spur) ... could have got someone in trouble ... I bad ...

Lil'D ... Thanks a lot , now when I go say hi to Yelp and WaCent, I'll find a pile of turkeys I have to clean. :bash: I guess I can start charging you guys :bdid: ... and remember, I know where you're hunting and can always sneak between you and the birds to save you the trouble of having to pack them out too. :chuckle: Of course when I leave to help one of you, the other guys flock right to my spots and scare the birds away. :yike:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: Gutpile on April 10, 2009, 02:58:32 PM: Pluck and deep fry. :drool:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: General Disarray on April 10, 2009, 03:09:57 PM: We plucked my son's bird the same day he shot it and got the guts out asap. I cleaned it up at home and brined it overnight with 1 cup of Sea salt and 1/2 cup of sugar dissolved in 1 gallon of water. I then cut up a couple of granny smiths, an onion and some celery along with fresh sage, thyme and rosemary. I stuffed the bird with most of those items and put it on the Traeger for about 4 hours on a low setting. I took the rest of the apples, onions, celery and herbs and added it to about a cup of chicken stock, cube of butter and cup of white wine and simmered to make a basting juice.

It came out moist and tender with absolutely som of the best flavor I've ever tasted in wild game. I'm looking forward to smoked turkey sandwiches next wednesday after a morning hunt!
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: yelp on April 10, 2009, 07:09:49 PM: I also like to take crop out ..it can get rancid smelling and taint the breast meat.. :) I usually dissect mine to see what kind fauna the old bird was eating...I had a crop full of dandilions..it was kinda funny told the guys back at camp to look for dandilions thats what the turkeys are eating.,..I then imagined everyone out there looking down at the ground..LOL that's funny right there.. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: Tom Tamer on April 10, 2009, 09:06:20 PM: Quote from: LITTLEBUCK on April 10, 2009, 12:32:58 PM
If Turkeydancer is around just act like you dont know what you are duing and before you know it, it's all cleaned a ready to go.

And when finished if you leave it in TD's trailer he'll even burn off the pin feathers for you :P
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: fc2038 on April 10, 2009, 10:05:06 PM: Man you guys are making me hungery :EAT: :EAT: :EAT:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: TrkyBob53 on April 11, 2009, 07:09:27 PM: You must leave a feathered head while transporting game birds. I cant seem to find anywhere that you must leave proof of sex for game birds. Other than the head. Cant find anywhere that you have to leave the spurs on a tom. I cant find where you must leave the beard attached. Because you can legally shoot a bearded hen, doesnt say anywhere that I can find, that you must leave the beard attached. Just says you must leave a feathered head. And you better. Trust me on that one.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: wastickslinger on April 11, 2009, 10:50:25 PM: Ask MuleySniper. I still laugh when I think about him gutting anything. :chuckle: :chuckle: Sorry buddy I been hanging on to these just waiting. I couldn't resist.
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: bowhunterforever on April 11, 2009, 11:37:20 PM: LOL :chuckle: :chuckle: Reminds me of one of my buddy's gutting a gut shot deer :chuckle:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: ICEMAN on April 12, 2009, 09:34:39 AM: :chuckle: That's a couple of 'heaves' if I ever saw one!! Hang in there MuleySniper!

Damn funny pics!
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: MuleySniper on April 13, 2009, 07:05:03 AM: Stickslinger failed to mention he was farting about two feet away from me. The turkey had nothing to do with it :chuckle:
MS
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: wastickslinger on April 13, 2009, 04:58:27 PM: I laugh every time I come across thos pictures. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: shoot-em-dead on April 13, 2009, 05:19:34 PM: This thread has enough laughs to move it to the joke section. :lol4:
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: yelp on April 13, 2009, 09:24:56 PM: I usually cleand between the ribs with my toothbrush and get all of that lung out. :chuckle: MMMM
Title: Re: Cleaning my turkey
Post by: mossback91 on April 14, 2009, 12:41:24 AM: funny pics!!! :chuckle: