MDC to trap and study turkeys...

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1 hour ago, ollie said:

I don't know where everyone else lives, but in my neck of the woods I see them all the time! Last year right down the road from where I work I must have seen over 40 of them in a yard! Yes, over 40. Around the bottom lands of Shoal Creek they are everywhere.

Around here too...  Had em run right down the cul de sac before.  

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At the beginning of this covid mess the stay at homes in my neighborhood wanted to have a nice big beautiful Tom taken to a rescue cause he was strutting around, staring at their super shiny vehicles and sliding glass doors because he "didn't have street smarts."  I told em, he's just trying to find him some women and he thinks his reflection is competition and besides, the way things are going we might have to eat him.  No one has seen him since.  Escape those broads he did.  I see them all the time.  Deer too.  We have 80 acres of common ground/woods that belongs to the animals. They do well.  Eating all the fresh flowers and plants.   

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On 9/22/2020 at 3:58 PM, BilletHead said:

                 Dutch it has been going on for several years up my way. Predators because fur is worth nothing because it isn't in style anymore. From opossums up to the top of the predator scale get them. Plus the spring flooding loosing hatches. The 80s  into the early 90s it was great. 

Been trying to tell them it is Egg Suckers for years and they have always said I was full of BS.

Figure just me use to kill hundreds back in early '70's.

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I didn't hunt Turkeys for years because I was told they were basically un huntable.

For years MDC thought Large areas of Timber was needed for Turkeys. Once they found out different they did a great job getting them stocked in Northern Missouri.

I kill my first Tom out of a flock of at least hundred Birds coming off of Roost.

Back when I was Trapping and running Dogs. Top Dollar fore Coons was $50. Heck Possums and Skunks were bringing. $3.50. Skinned a lot of them.

MDC makes mistakes. I know we was releasing Otters. I asked how long before we would be able to Trap them? Oh their just a novelty there will never be Trappable numbers. 

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[fishinwrench]

I love a big juicy Butterball, but I'd rather eat just about anything than a wild turkey.   Yeah I know......I "haven't had it cooked right". 🙄 

Why can't you just cook it like a Butterball ?  Cuz it's nasty survival food, that's why. Protein that you MIGHT have to eat someday to keep from starving.  I'm sure it will taste ok when on the verge of starvation, so that's when I'll have it again.

[slothman]

Wild turkey breast cut into strips and pan fried is one of my absolute favorite treats. Mmmmmm

I tagged two this past weekend and can’t wait to cook them up. 

[fishinwrench]

27 minutes ago, slothman said:

 

I tagged two this past weekend and can’t wait to cook them up.

Poor guy!  I thought you looked kinda skinny the other day, why didn't you tell us you needed some food? 😄    

[BilletHead]

5 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

 but I'd rather eat just about anything than a wild turkey.   Yeah I know......I "haven't had it cooked right". 🙄 

              No you have cooked it wrong. 

[Johnsfolly]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Cuz it's nasty survival food, that's why. Protein that you MIGHT have to eat someday to keep from starving.  I'm sure it will taste ok when on the verge of starvation, so that's when I'll have it again.

This from a guy that eats white bass one of the "you have to cook it right to make it palatable fishes" 

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

No you have cooked it wrong. 

True! I haven't even looked for turkeys on the tiny public lands near us yet to even think about trying for one. Sure like to eat them though. Especially young fall turkeys!

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We get six meals out of a Wild Turkey but I haven't hunted them since numbers went down.

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