If you're only taking the breasts from wild turkeys, then you're missing out on some excellent meat from the legs and thighs.
By Scott Stankowski
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There are a lot of turkey hunters that do not realize how versatile a wild turkey is when it comes to table fare. When I first started turkey hunting, the first bird I harvested was cleaned whole and frozen. We cooked it like a traditional Thanksgiving turkey and complained about how dry and tough it was. There was a week’s worth of leftovers and by the time it was gone, we were sick of it.
I am a huge trial-and-error person and was not going to stick to that method of cooking. Around this same time, deep frying turkeys was the newest thing to do. Without a lot of...