Fresh turkey

[Slingingslugs]

I love turkey hunting in the spring, but I am not a purist. I love eating turkey. I only kill one of them in the fall. Either for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Decided to go gather one up for tomorrow after I got off early this afternoon. Didn't do anything fancy just went to the field at my hunting spot where they cut across a corner every evening heading to roosting woods. Me, my Shockey shooting stick and a chair hidden in a clump of bushes. Mossberg MVP 5.56 with Hornady Frontier 62 grn soft point. Beautiful bird. Probably 18 lbs 10.5 inch beard and 1.25 inch spurs. 9 gobblers in the group, he was the closest not the biggest. About 75 yards. He flopped his wings about 5 or 6 times and twice caught enough dirt kicking his legs to do a flip. But you can't go far with your head looking like that.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

[illinoishunter]

Beautiful tasty looking bird. Congrats. You're a blessed guy to have those opportunities and be able to use that rifle to harvest supper. How you going to cook him? I've got a hankering for a deep fried bird.

 

[Slingingslugs]

Beautiful tasty looking bird. Congrats. You're a blessed guy to have those opportunities and be able to use that rifle to harvest supper. How you going to cook him? I've got a hankering for a deep fried bird.

Thank you. I am blessed. Florida allows harvest of gobblers in the fall by any method on private land. The property I hunt, owned by a friend that doesn't hunt; is a 114 acre piece of land that borders a state park for a 1/4 mile of the boundary and has about 30 acres of overgrown old clear-cut thickets, about 60 acres of hardwoods and about 20 acres of cypress and sweet gum bottom land. Fried turkey is one of my favorites but I believe I will fire up the smoker in the morning and give the breast a smoking and save the carcass with the wings and running gear for a turkey soup this weekend.

 

[Ninering62]

I love turkey hunting in the spring, but I am not a purist. I love eating turkey. I only kill one of them in the fall. Either for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Decided to go gather one up for tomorrow after I got off early this afternoon. Didn't do anything fancy just went to the field at my hunting spot where they cut across a corner every evening heading to roosting woods. Me, my Shockey shooting stick and a chair hidden in a clump of bushes. Mossberg MVP 5.56 with Hornady Frontier 62 grn soft point. Beautiful bird. Probably 18 lbs 10.5 inch beard and 1.25 inch spurs. 9 gobblers in the group, he was the closest not the biggest. About 75 yards. He flopped his wings about 5 or 6 times and twice caught enough dirt kicking his legs to do a flip. But you can't go far with your head looking like that.

Happy Thanksgiving

Nice bird, congrats & happy thanksgiving to you as well. I'm deer hunting then grilling some backstrap when I get back & havin a few beers. Thats gonna be the extent of my day.