Can not stop wanting a Butterball Turkey.

[cyclops222]

Wife called B J store. Meat Department. Have 1 large Turkey left. He is sleeping in the freezer. All 24 pounds. We will have a Christmas Turkey Dinner. L I G
Can not let the holidays go without a bird.

 

[ezbtr]

We have HEB in the south, which i love .........but I can't imagine an online home delivered order from that store.......I can't. I just can't

 

[aspeck]

Make my own Butterball ... just put a stick of butter under the skin over the breast ... instant Butterball only with a cheap "generic" bird. Thought about getting a 20+ lb turkey on Monday ... He and 2 of his friends (all long beards) came strutting less than 20 yards from me. They were not interested at all that I was standing there. Had the crosshairs on the biggest one's head, but alas, it is not turkey season so I just kept watching them as they walked past and dreaming about how good that lead gobbler would have tasted on Christmas day! LOL!

 

[Scott Danforth]

He and 2 of his friends (all long beards) came strutting less than 20 yards from me.

had a flock of them in the back yards in the neighborhood in Wisconsin for years..... They would come in to eat out of the gardens and eat what the birds dropped out of the feeders..... every turkey season, either I or the neighbor would get one or two off the back decks

 

[DeepCMark58A]

I enjoy eating wild game and fish. 2 game items I do not enjoy wild turkey and bear. A butterball turkey is far superior for all around dining experience.

 

[airshot]

My family are not big turkey fans, it is OK, but not prefered...however, my family can't get enough yellow perch which I enjoy fishing for. So when ever a holiday gets the family together we have a fish fry. Unanimous vote is for perch fillets, so gobble, gobble, glub, glub.....

 

[cyclops222]

Yellow Perch are a favorite food of ALL larger game fish. Must be a great reason.
I 1 time caught a perch with the rear treble hook of a bass lure. Fatally in the belly. I cut the perch into 2 long fillets for bass or pike. Surprise as I smelled a sweetness from the fresh cut fillets. I called a Perch nut friend about the sweetness aroma.
"" Meet you at the dock as soon as possible. ""
I roared back to the dock and Victor on his golf cart. He said some perch DO smell slightly sweet when filleted very fresh.

 

[ezbtr]

Am told to only harvest the turkey breast when hunting???? What rifle/shotgun?

 

[cyclops222]

I used a .22 rifle in a unused rock quarry. It also has a swampy area in it. The birds like it. I shoot across the swamp area. All bullets are stopped by vertical walls.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Am told to only harvest the turkey breast when hunting???? What rifle/shotgun?

12 gauge shotgun 3 or 3-1/2" mag longer barrel tight choke shoot them in the face.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Am told to only harvest the turkey breast when hunting???? What rifle/shotgun?

With wild turkeys I generally breast them out right in the field and just eat the breast, unless they have some meaty legs which isn’t the norm here. The legs tend to get a little tough and chewy. The forest critters sure like them.

 

[Scott Danforth]

they all taste great coming off the smoker.

 

[cyclops222]

ONLY ONLY head shots !!
No toxic Lead Pellets to find before cooking and eating.

 

[BWR1953]

My wife and I skipped the whole big turkey meal this year. She won't eat the leftovers and I'm the only one who will.

So, we went with Marie Callender meals. Worked well!

 

[tphoyt]

Luckily for the turkeys around my place we don’t eat much Turkey. I feed them here and I could grab one at any time. They love sunflower seeds.
I hear they are a cross breed and don’t taste all that bad. Maybe someday I will give it try.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Luckily for the turkeys around my place we don’t eat much Turkey. I feed them here and I could grab one at any time. They love sunflower seeds.
I hear they are a cross breed and don’t taste all that bad. Maybe someday I will give it try.

It is funny how smart turkey hunters claim the birds are, we get toms at the office every spring, I have snuck close enough to kill them with a broom handle. Not that I have but I could

 

[Scott Danforth]

we used to joke that turkeys drown when it rains because they look up to see where the water is coming from.

 

[FLATHEAD]

I’ve come to the conclusion that rather than being super smart ( they are smart) they are just very weird. Seen them do kooky stuff while hunting.

 

[dingbat]

Turkeys are dumb with a capital D…lol

Had a 5 or 6 show up in the backyard a couple of weeks ago. Took them 10 minutes to figure out how to get past the four board, split rail fence separating yard from the field.

Could easily squeeze between the boards or backed up a bit and flew over it. Instead, ran into the fence. Flew into the fence, then ran back and forth about 10 times before turning around and running back into the woods from which they came

 

[DeepCMark58A]

I’ve come to the conclusion that rather than being super smart ( they are smart) they are just very weird. Seen them do kooky stuff while hunting.

Back when I had the hobby farm I hunted the pasture, had a real nice clover plot. Always hated to see the flock of turkeys coming thru, the deer would sit back and stay away from the drama that comes with a flock of turkeys.