I've got a problem

[Bc'z]

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I'd say ask the Turkey what happend when I found it roosting on roof of my truck.....

Remington makes a damn fine pellet rifle!!!
1 shot to the head

 

[Bc'z]

Crown Black,ice....I do ham and a brisket on Thanksgiving. Not a turkey fan either.

Try vanilla with ginger ale.
You'll thank me

 

[snert]

Skin and breast out, toss the rest. Soak overnight in Chiavetta's (a NY BBQ sauce that isn't red) and grill it, fast an hot for short time, basting as you go. serve to snobby bro in law who would never eat anything kilt...call it cornish hen.

 

[ljmontano]

Get a butter ball deep fryer and some Cajun butter comes with injector makes wild turkey taste good

 

[joshb]

Actually, my parents raised chickens and rabbits both. Saturdays were a stinkin', morbid mess most of the time around the barn for several years in a row.

Like a lot of things, too much too early tends to ruin it.

Oh! I opolgize! Sorry for assuming you were a city boy!

 

[pdhntr]

Problem is I dont care much for Turkey's.
The wild ones really dont taste good, so I dont hunt them.
It started a few years ago with just 1 Tom,
Then another Tom started hanging out.
Well this year we're up to 3 Tom's and about 9 hens and 4 decent sized Jake's.
So this morning I hear something on the back porch.
A Tom and a Jake in a pecker measuring contest on my porch.
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This has to stop!
I'm needing a couple youths in the southern Oregon area to come out with the folks and take a few out.
Picture is a little grainy but there is a lil buck standing in the woods at edge of yard.

Looks to me like there are a couple of turkeys that aren't going to make it through the spring.

Jim

 

[MrMajestic]

Bullet Rye, neat!!

Bulleit is tasty however Dad's Hat is exceptional...

 

[Someoldguy]

Oh! I opolgize! Sorry for assuming you were a city boy!

No worries! ☺

 

[ebb]

I hunted antelopes in Buffalo WY back in 1989. The owner of the property lived down next to a creek about 200yds back from the Hwy. When we meet him I had never seen so many turkeys as there was on his property. He told us that when he moved on to the land it had been vacant for 2 years and had grown up. When moving some tractor implements one day he was bite by a rattlesnake. His old neighbors from eastern WY came to visit and brought 7 turkeys, they told him if you have turkeys no snakes will live there. Five survived the first winter then they increased every year, when we meet the day before the hunt they went to roost while we were talking. It sounded like 747 circling the house for 15 minutes. I guessed that there were between 200 and 300 of them. He said if we wanted to hunt turkeys it would be cheap and there would be no bag limit. With no intervention it could be you!!

 

[Bc'z]

^^^^^^^^^I know!!!^^^^^^^^
I've got 1 neighbor who thinks the flock needs thinning, 2 others think they're pets.
I've told them my pets sleep in the house.

 

[SGK]

These are my equivalent...

 

[Peebles24]

These are my equivalent...

Peacock?

 

[SGK]

Yup. Sometimes 8-10 at a time.

 

[Knotwild]

I have 3 grown gobblers that hang around the house on the island I work on. Since they were young I gave them plenty of room and they are comfortable with being within 20 or 30 feet of me. They are entertaining and I don't hunt them. They only time they get edgy is if I stare at them like a predator. 3 young jakes flew over this spring and when I see them, they are getting the heck out of Dodge.

Bottom line is that they are tame because they haven't been pressured or molested. If you make them feel threatened, they will likely give your house a wide berth unless you have grain or something they really want. If you make life uncomfortable for them, they will go somewhere else. I'm thinking a burst from one of those Freon air horns would be fun as would also be wacking them with a tennis ball. Or maybe get really sporting and go with a paintball gun and some fluorescent paint balls. Now that would be some fun! Then you would wish they would come back so you could do it again. I get excited just thinking about sneaking a paintball gun barrel around the back of that black pickup and letting go. Or maybe one of those paintball hand grenades!

PS: You don't want your Rottweiler to get a does of those spurs.

 

[mike a]

These are my equivalent...

Deep dried peacock. Yuck

 

[Bojo]

I know a farmer that used too hang conibear traps on the outside of his corn cribs....
Turkeys would go to the cribs for an easy meal , just to wind up flapping around with thier heads on the wrong side of the jaws compared to its body.
They always ate well...... the farmer that is.

 

[Bc'z]

I have 3 grown gobblers that hang around the house on the island I work on. Since they were young I gave them plenty of room and they are comfortable with being within 20 or 30 feet of me. They are entertaining and I don't hunt them. They only time they get edgy is if I stare at them like a predator. 3 young jakes flew over this spring and when I see them, they are getting the heck out of Dodge.

Bottom line is that they are tame because they haven't been pressured or molested. If you make them feel threatened, they will likely give your house a wide berth unless you have grain or something they really want. If you make life uncomfortable for them, they will go somewhere else. I'm thinking a burst from one of those Freon air horns would be fun as would also be wacking them with a tennis ball. Or maybe get really sporting and go with a paintball gun and some fluorescent paint balls. Now that would be some fun! Then you would wish they would come back so you could do it again. I get excited just thinking about sneaking a paintball gun barrel around the back of that black pickup and letting go. Or maybe one of those paintball hand grenades!

PS: You don't want your Rottweiler to get a does of those spurs.

She'll run anything in her yard out. Squirls deer, turkeys. Hell the other day she chased a Robin out of mama's flower bed up into the pine tree. She stood there and watched it for 15 minutes. I tried to convince her she ain't a bird dog, but she wasnt having any part of it.

 

[dave@aDave]

I prefer my Wild Turkey in a shot glass with a water-by. 8 year old 101 proof is my usual. For a festive occasion, I break out the Rare Breed, a barrel proof running around 112.8 to 118.6. This is relatively mild compared to the 190 proof with a grapefruit chaser from my diesel submarine days.

 

[Peebles24]

First wiskey i ever had i was 16, a friend and me was doing some work at the local judges house. We were working in his shed cleaning it and stumbled onto a old bottle of wild turkey. He gave it to us. Id hate to guess how many years old it was but it was sippin smooth.

 

[MrMajestic]

For a festive occasion, I break out the Rare Breed, a barrel proof running around 112.8 to 118.6.

That stuff will sneak up on you...