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    wild turkeys?

    do you bone out the breasts or do you pluck them and cook with the skin on? Ive allways done the bone out the breast thing but cooking them like that leaves them a bit dry. just kind of wondering if the skin tastes as good as domestic turkeys and if there worth plucking? Do you just pull the feathers off or is there a short cut do plucking them?

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    I`m following this thread.
    I am taking my 12 year old great granddaughter on her first turkey hunt this fall....dale

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    It depends on the size of the turkey. A nice, large bird is worth the trouble to pluck, singe, and cook whole. They're quite good.

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    I skin my birds, since I have a pot large to dip a whole turkey in hot water. Tried dry plucking once, it was not fun.

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    I have a plucking machine, scald and drop the bird in and in 15 seconds all the feathers are gone. hand plucking really sucks and leaving the skin on does seam to make the bird more juicy
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    Encase rothe entire bird in wet clay and either bury in a. Charcoal fire, or bake in your oven for the time necessary for the weight. Crack the baked clay off the feathers come off with it and the bird is moist.
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    i skin and brine.
    makes for juicy end product sans skin.
    i take the legs/thighs same way.
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    I got my 1st turkey this year and we're going to have it for Thanksgiving this year. Looking for good recipes.

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    I just crack the seal and pour

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    Cook your wild turkey with the skin on if you can and cook it breast down in the roaster. Unless they are tiny birds we pluck.

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    I cut and fry my wild turkeys, so I skin them. Its a lot easier then plucking.

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    To country gent:I`ll take two fingers in the bottom of a No 10 wash tub
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    For, me it's skin and wrap in bacon. Do that with my geese too. Anything smaller gets breasted and wrapped in bacon. Bacon just goes with everything!!!!!!!!!!

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    The best recipe for wild turkey is place whole un-plucked turkey in lg brown paper bag and toss in the nearest garbage! Wait until Thanksgiving when fresh turkeys are available at local market.

    I prefer my wild turkey in a glass as well.

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    Got to admit the way ive had them prepared in the past makes me agree with you. So much so that when we crop damage hunt ive got turkeys walking within 20 feet of my blind most nights and don't even bother to shoot them. I was thinking the other night though when two hens and about 20 babys came walking by if those little turkeys would be like eating Cornish game hens. They wouldn't even be much bother to pluck.
    Quote Originally Posted by NyFirefighter357 View Post
    The best recipe for wild turkey is place whole un-plucked turkey in lg brown paper bag and toss in the nearest garbage! Wait until Thanksgiving when fresh turkeys are available at local market.

    I prefer my wild turkey in a glass as well.

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    I plucked my first bird in 89'. I had it smoked. It was awesome! I looked like a picture when done. Took what it seemed hours to do and still wasn't perfect. After that I breasted them out only. I cut the breasts in strips and smoke them or pan fry with shore lunch or similar. I've tried the legs in the crock pot..yuck...dog food. The last couple of years I've cut the meat off the legs and grind it up in my electric grinder and made burgers or hamburger helper that turns out great. I've even used the leg meat in soups. I've ground the breast up as well and have used it in stuff.

    That reminds me, I have a couple I shot last winter I'm going to pull the breast out and cut into strips and smoke. Wild turkey jerky is the best.

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    The best wild turkey I've ever ate (I've ate quite a few) was where Mama cut the breast meat into strips, battered 'n fried like chicken strips.

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    Skinned, soaked in your choice of seasoning, smoked.
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    I skin it and make turkey finger steaks, thighs as well. Our turkeys don't have much edible below the thigh.
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