Cooking a Wild Turkey?

[bigbull1]

Anybody cooking a turkey they took this year?

Got a buddy who bought a deep fryer, drew a Nevada tag, hunted hard and didn't even hear one gobble. Heard they taste pretty good though....

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ed

 

[B_F_E]

Best way to cook them, Deep fryed, that is.

 

[AZbowhntr]

I ended up making jerky out of mine from last year. I had been told that some of the meat was pretty tough compared to a pen raised turkey so I took the safe route. Jerky came out awesome.

 

[Bazy]

I've had them deep fried and roasted like a normal turkey. My advice is don't even try to eat the legs. Those babies are so tough you can barely cut the meat.

The breast meat is great.

 

[Triple_BB]

Shot a nice gobbler this morning. I like to breast them out along with the legs and thighs. I like to substitute the meat for chicken in stir fry, dumplings, turkey salad sandwichs, any of those store bought boxed meals where you just add chicken. Good stuff...

 

[bigbull1]

Hope this spring I can either get drawn locally or go to Cal for some turkey hunting. I appreciate the cook hints.

Guess watching the Nuge is having it's effect as I'd rather eat more "backstraps from the bbq" than store bought from Safeways.

Ed