2024 Spring Turkey Hunt

AtTheMurph said:
5 miles!

I have officially turkey hunted one time at my place in WI. Had a a popup tent and little chair and decoy and call. Walked out from truck about 3/4 mile and set everything up and forgot to bring the call and decoy. SMH. Was starting to get light so I decided to not get busted and sat there. Then I slept there.

You ever get a feeling when you're sleeping that you know something is going on? I peeked one eye open and standing in front of the tent is a beautiful tom about 15 yards. Thought for sure I was dreaming. Pulled gun up my bro had gave me (with the turkey loads he also gave me) pulled the trigger and went ass over tea kettle inside that little tent. Knocked me on my azz! Got the bird. Weight was 24lbs which I think is pretty big?

During fall turkey season have shot 2 of them out of the air after dog pointed them while pheasant hunting. I have also gotten feral peacocks off point as well. If you don't know it's a peacock and it flushes in your face, you may need to change your diaper afterwards. IMO, peacock tastes better than turkey, not quite as good as pheasant but close.
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Yep 24 is a big turkey.
 
Hope I didn’t offend you gim? Just noticed there’s no Great Irish Cookbook, no Irish reataurants, (didn’t say bars that serve food)and not one man on death row ever asked for “A nice Irish meal” for his last meal. Maybe a culinary thing?
 
lol no you didn't offend me.

I've tagged 10 turkeys in 18 seasons now and have yet to find a way I enjoyed eating it. I wouldn't call it "bad" but I don't enjoy it either. It's just very blah. It tastes like nothing.

One time a friend smoked one for me and that was slightly better. But I had to leave the skin on it, which meant spending 2 hours plucking feathers from a wild turkey. I'm never doing that again.

The last 2 seasons I've been able to find someone who will take it. So that way I can still hunt and tag one, but I don't have to choke it down. And it doesn't just go to waste either.

I'm not Irish, I'm mostly Scandinavian.
 
gim said:
lol no you didn't offend me.

I've tagged 10 turkeys in 18 seasons now and have yet to find a way I enjoyed eating it. I wouldn't call it "bad" but I don't enjoy it either. It's just very blah. It tastes like nothing.

One time a friend smoked one for me and that was slightly better. But I had to leave the skin on it, which meant spending 2 hours plucking feathers from a wild turkey. I'm never doing that again.

The last 2 seasons I've been able to find someone who will take it. So that way I can still hunt and tag one, but I don't have to choke it down. And it doesn't just go to waste either.

I'm not Irish, I'm mostly Scandinavian.
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What subspecies is that?
 
Take some of that smoked turkey and cube it. Add it to wild rice soup. Delish
We will also fine grind that smoked turkey and add mayo with some cream cheese. Excellent cracker dip.
 
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gim said:
I'm willing to dry new recipes and preparations of it.

But I will not be plucking one again
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Easy ways are any way like cutlets. Cutting thin slivers and barbecuing w red wine vinegrette. Gotta make it thin or itll dry out. Ill get my girls recipe for ya later for schnitzel w mushroom sauce. Thats a fav way. A few buddys soak em in 7up to break meat down. Ive never done that
Legs we cool than strip meat for pot pies
 
If properly aged a pheasant is
Bowguy said:
You’re the first person I ever heard said pheasant was better than turkey. Bear, turkey, moose are my fav 3 meats. Some mule deer are up there too but I ain’t so sure it’s not just because I eat so many whitetails that muke deer are just dif. Prob 4-5 days a week whitetail which is like many eat cattle that way. Heck I’ve been living w my girl now 11 years. We’ve had under 10 steaks I bet.
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If properly aged, a pheasant to me is the 2nd best tasting wild bird you can take. Bobwhites are good. Chukar are good. Ruffed Grouse is my favorite. Turkey are good if hung. If they aren't hung they are the worst! Most of the times I've gotten one i was too warm to hang a turkey so had to try to butcher and eat.

I've got a new garage refrigerator that I will use to age a turkey if I get one again. I don't think you can hang them in the 40s or 50s because of their size and the time it will take to cool off. Pheasants cool off in a few hours or so, turkeys can stay warm lots longer.
 
Bowguy said:
Hope I didn’t offend you gim? Just noticed there’s no Great Irish Cookbook, no Irish reataurants, (didn’t say bars that serve food)and not one man on death row ever asked for “A nice Irish meal” for his last meal. Maybe a culinary thing?
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You could say the same thing about the other Northern European nations. There aren't Scotch or Danish or Norwegian or Finn restaurants/cookbooks or requests for final meals. hell could say the same about Canada too, eh?

They don't have that many ingredients, didn't have the wealth, the soils or the growing seasons to produce varied food stuffs. It was more survival mode.

But the Irish did do two things that the rest of the world should be eternally grateful for: They invented Whiskey, and they saved Western learning and Christianity.
 
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