Dressing my wild turkey with my little Farmer necker.

ejes

ejes

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Went out this morning and bowhunted a nice gobbler. It was a beautiful day and it all worked like clockwork. I got this little Farmer necker last fall and have used it mostly for field dressing deer; but it is quickly becoming my go-to for field dressing any game. This little bugger is demon sharp! It keeps and takes an edge like nobody's business and truly cuts like a scalpel. I just touch the meat, sinew and tissue and it zips right through it. I have no other knife like this; it will perform twice its size when asked. Osage and L6; my favorite combo.

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Dinner time.

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Looks great. I've got a commercially make knife with a similar blade shape and it is awesome for that kind of work.

Congrats on the turkey too.

Charlie
 
Nice bird and sweet knife!

David sure knows how to put an edge on a knife!
 
Hey ejes,

Well done. I hope you are using those wing (and tail) feathers, but if not, you're contributing them to some well-deserving trad archer. :confused: :D

Doc
 
Congrats on the successful hunt and nice knife:thumbup:
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Hey ejes,

Well done. I hope you are using those wing (and tail) feathers, but if not, you're contributing them to some well-deserving trad archer. :confused: :D

Doc
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The majority of the feathers go to the local Pottawatomie Indian Tribe for their use. Some of them also go to a guy that makes feathers for trad guys and he gives me a few for my longbow arrows. I shot this particular bird with my compound though, but I still use feathers. :D
 
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great bird. Never had a wild turkey before, how does it taste compare to the one you buy at the store????
I Had to laugh here, Every time someone shows a pic of a turkey someone else asks about the feathers lol. You might think they are made of gold Or maybe i dont know something about them!!!!!

Sasha
 
sasha said:
great bird. Never had a wild turkey before, how does it taste compare to the one you buy at the store????
I Had to laugh here, Every time someone shows a pic of a turkey someone else asks about the feathers lol. You might think they are made of gold Or maybe i dont know something about them!!!!!

Sasha
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I don't get too worked up over the feathers. I just keep what I can and put them in a paper sack to dry and drop them off whenever I think of it or happen to be going that way. I usually take the kids up there to buy fireworks from the reservation for Independence day, and that is usually when they get taken. Turkey feathers are perfect for arrow fletching as they have the perfect balance of stiffness and forgiveness for flight.

It tastes almost exactly like domestic turkey. It just has a lower fat content so you have to be careful when you cook it; they live a much tougher life so they're leaner. ;) I like to make deep fried nuggets or strips mostly from the breasts and the legs and other parts do well slow cooked for turkey and noodles in the winter.
 
sasha said:
great bird. Never had a wild turkey before, how does it taste compare to the one you buy at the store????
I Had to laugh here, Every time someone shows a pic of a turkey someone else asks about the feathers lol. You might think they are made of gold Or maybe i dont know something about them!!!!!

Sasha
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LOL. Hey sasha, early on, when I wanted feathers, I had to beg, borrow and steal to get some. :eek: Every time I went out to the country, I would keep my eyes open for anybody that kept turkeys. As it turned out, even small operations sent them away to be killed.

At one place, the guy says, "Sure, you can have some feathers - 50 cents apiece, and took me into his barn. We get in there and he says, "There you go", as he points to a live bird!!!!

The other thing about Wild Turkey feathers is that they are authentic as to what early peoples used and because they're barred, they look good.

Besides, considering all the anti-hunting sentiment around, I think it is beneficial to maximize the use of the bird.

Doc
 
Ejes i like to BBQ the legs over very low fire with some garlic and butter under the skin...
Thanks Doc... Now did you catch that bird to pull its feathers..
 
right on... congrats on the turkey...:thumbup: that's a sweet little knife.. David's knives are insanely sharp..:eek:
 
Seems like dressing game is something of the ultimate test of a knifes sharpness and edge holding ability. Especially deer. lots of coming into contact with bone, and LOTS of cutting! And trimming off that gelatinous layer of goo thats on the meat (cellulite?), when you got a knife that zips through that stuff you got a SHAAAAARP knife.:eek:

Nice bird! and nice knife:thumbup: What archery rig did you get him with?
 
Runsalone said:
Seems like dressing game is something of the ultimate test of a knifes sharpness and edge holding ability. Especially deer. lots of coming into contact with bone, and LOTS of cutting! And trimming off that gelatinous layer of goo thats on the meat (cellulite?), when you got a knife that zips through that stuff you got a SHAAAAARP knife.:eek:

Nice bird! and nice knife:thumbup: What archery rig did you get him with?
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For this bird I used a Pearson TX-4 compound. My longbow is a Dan Toelke Montana Whip, but I have not been able to practice with it enough the last couple of months to feel comfortable with it this spring. For me, if I don't practice almost daily with my longbow, I don't feel sure of myself. I did take a couple of nice fall birds with it last year though.
 
cooking/eating wild turkey is quite different from the domestic one. the meat is tougher and flavor can be strong, esp. in a big horny Tom.
the best are the Spring chicks hunted in late Fall. they dress to about 7-8 pounds and are reliably tender and sweet (but not legal in most places ?).
roland
 
Marinate it for 24 hours in your favorite jerky recipe and dehydrate and you'll never go back to beef or venison jerky again, it's the best
 
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