Let's Talk Turkey

Ted

Ted

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Okay, Thanksgiving is coming up and I would really like to get a good wild or free range turkey for the table this year. Not one of those sawdust-fed turkeys they strip-mine in a poultry plant and inject full of brine, urine, or whatever the hell it is that makes a bird gain 16 lbs in 5 weeks.

I have been looking at birds from D'artagnan www.dartagnan.com but they are a little pricey. Besides shooting one myself (no real Turkey Season in Phoenix) anyone know where to get a good quality, tasty Wild or free range Turkey?


Cheers,

Ted
 
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agro1

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Greenberg smoked turkeys - Tyle Texas.
The best bird you will EVER taste.
 
SCSL

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Ted said:
inject full of brine, urine, or whatever the hell
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Thanks a bunch, Ted,,,, I only have a few weeks to ditch that image before I eat my supermarket piss turkey,,,

For that, I subject you to THIS:
 

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agro1

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Gee thanks Peter. Posting a pic of wild birds... very helpful.

If you want wild turkey, you can get them HERE
 
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Thanks for the link, Luke - I just couldn't resist posting this photo. That was the first time I saw a large flock of these birds this close - about 15 yards from me.
 
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agro1

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Wow - you must have been well hidden or they must have been socalized birds because I've never been able to get that close without them seeing me - even in camo. Turkeys have amazing vision and can spot you 100 yards away. Where was this ?
 
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Lake Cuyamaca - an hour's drive from home. It is in Cleveland Nat'l Forest, so these birds were never hunted or even harrassed by people. I don't think the birds were socialized, but it is not out of question.
 
KevinNY

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Around here they will feed 5 feet from traffic and get in the way on the fairways, it's absolutely amazing how they have multiplied in the last 15 years.
 
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agro1 said:
Wow - you must have been well hidden or they must have been socalized birds because I've never been able to get that close without them seeing me - even in camo. Turkeys have amazing vision and can spot you 100 yards away. Where was this ?
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"When a deer sees a man in camo it thinks it's a tree but when a turkey sees a tree it thinks it's a man dressed in camo."

The most challenging but exciting bird I have ever hunted, hands down.
 
Eric N.

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Went for a walk last time I was up fishing in Canada and a couple toms and a flock (?) were walking pretty close to me for a while in one of the cattle fields that was over grown along the gravle road.. Wish I had a sling shot or some thing with me..

Instead of a traditional turkey why not get a Turducken ?


I'm thinking next year I'm ordering up or making a Fowl De Cochon although it's called some thing else to but, I can't think of the name right now..
 
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The first time I drove around the Pearl's Pond site scouting it as a possible location for the MAR, we encountered a flock in the meadow away from the pond. They were walking across a gap at the top of the field single file, like ducks in a proverbial shooting gallery. I stopped counting at 35....

I brined a free-range turkey my brother bought from a local farmet last year. The bloody thing was 28 pounds *after* cleaning. Pret 'near filled the whole damn oven....

Wild turkeys are the most challenging of North American game. They are so wary (and smart) that Ben Franklin wanted this as the national emblem, not an eagle.

Cheers
 
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agro1

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I still say that Greenberg smoked turkeys are the best tasting bird I've ever had. Cold, or warmed up served with all the traditional fixins; you can't beat it.
I usually clean the bird then make smoked turkey soup with the carcas.
 
bishop13

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Ted said:
Okay, Thanksgiving is coming up and I would really like to get a good wild or free range turkey for the table this year. Not one of those sawdust-fed turkeys they strip-mine in a poultry plant and inject full of brine, urine, or whatever the hell it is that makes a bird gain 16 lbs in 5 weeks.
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16 lbs in 5 weeks? Sounds like McDonalds to me :D

I'm sure Whole Foods has some "real" birds too...
 
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