3-Minute Cleaning and Cooking Wild Turkey

Cleaning and cooking a wild turkey; not as bad a job as you might think.

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[wmhoveysmith]

What I commonly see about using turkey parts is the feathers for decorative elements, usually put in a vase ( have framed some), spurs strung as a necklace, the cured pelt hung up as a well hanging, and dried feet mounted on old lumber for bookends. You need to tie the feet into place until they completly dry so that they will stand properly. Archers who make their own arrows aslo use these feathers for fletching.

[wmhoveysmith]

I can't host everyone for dinner, but I do have a more recent set of wild-turkey cooking videos, taking you through the four days of Christmas cooking, where the doings with and about the turkey are presented in more detail.

[wmhoveysmith]

I now have, Jan. 2012, five more videos on turkey cooking. Four are part of a series on cooking a traditional Southern Christmas meal that includes a wild turkey fixed during a 4-day meal perparation process and the fifth is salvaging meat and making turkey soup from the remains of the turkey.

[wmhoveysmith]

You would also like my Halloween video for 2011, "Bear Paw-Pumpkin Soup for Halloween." I have both long, 15 min., and short, 5-min., versions depending on how much of the "spirit' of the activity you want to see. If I am going to kill it, I am fairly well going to consume as much of an animal as possible.

[wmhoveysmith]

You would also like my Halloween video for 2011, "Bear Paw-Pumpin Soup for Halloween." I have both long, 15 min., and short, 5-min., versions depending on how much of the "spirit' of the activity you want to see. If I am going to kill it, I am fairly well going to consume as much of an animal as possible.

[wmhoveysmith]

Just as you would select a young chicken to fry or a hen to bake, younger turkeys taste better than old ones with more tender meat. I have a second turkey hunting YouTube video that discusses this issue more fully. Do not expect your wild turkey to taste like a butter and brine-pumped commercial bird. It will not unless you take it through the same processes. I have more to say on some of my radio shows "Hovey's Outdoor Adventures" that ran earlier this Spring.

[nightowl8936]

Can I come over for dinner?

[danarooneo]

@wmhoveysmith One thing I have found out over the years of turkey hunting is to save the turkey toenails for earrings and use the wing and tail feathers for quill pens. Have you ever considered trying that?

[danarooneo]

@wmhoveysmith Hey how are you doing? I have seen many of your videos. I admire many of them. This is one of them. I'm a hunter from Brooklyn NY. To be honest I do professional acting, singing and dancing for my career. I really admire how you use the whole turkey. Just like I do. You are my idea of a true turkey hunter who uses his resources. Most of the hunters I know just breast their birds which I cannot stand. Not just turkeys just game birds in general. I mean honestly. Really?

[TheWildjo]

Finally, a true sportsman who describes how to use all of the meat. Most videos simply show (thus advocate) cutting out the breast meat. That's a wasteful practice that gives hunting a bad name. Great job in going the extra mile!