Where Wild Turkeys Are So Bold They Knock on the Door for Food

NY Slimes, Via MSN ^ | 11/14/19 | Tracey Tully

[mad_as_he$$]

Typically it is illegal to feed wildlife - unless your hunting deer in Texas. I hope the wildlife rangers don’t fine the guy to much.

[Scarpetta]

“...opened the door like he was paying the mortgage on the place.” That imagery made me LOL.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s a new minor league ball team called the Rocket City Trash Pandas.....LOL!

[jmacusa]

Toms River is 10 minutes south of me. Traveling down The Garden State Parkway you can see the turkeys all along the side of the road just strolling along.

[major_gaff]

Just like venison, bear meat is excellent if it is done correctly. Get a young
bear, cleaned and butchered in a timely manner and cooked carefully, it is
excellent. Older male bear meat can be tough and gamey, so caveat
emptor...I like it slow cooked in a crock pot like pot roast or stew. Yum.

[gundog]

Cool. Looks like merchandise will be available in the near future.

[Freeport]

Bow time! There be some nice plump wild ones!

[Viking2002]

Yeah, back in between marriages in the late 90’s, I had a ‘friends with benefits’ lady give me a pound of venison backstrap from a deer her father took in the hills. Smoked right, it was Food Of The Gods. Once, my buddy threw a Super Bowl party, and we had two pounds of squirrel leg quarters that we tenderized in the pressure cooker for an hour, then put in the crock pot with BBQ sauce for the rest of the afternoon. Little bones aside, it was like mild beef. Went well with that pot of Tex-Mex venison chili going on the stove.

[Mouton]

I've had to limit my trigger time in the yard here taking on the rats and squirrels due to Yankee neighbors now on both sides. Too bad, loved honing my targeting skills. Have a tree lined lot in a residential development with a large pond in rear. Last rat went away in Oct blasted with my 38 with shot shell, a one shot kill. My neighbor coyly asked if I heard what he thought was a gun shot. I said yes, with nothing more. End of discussion.

[Wonder Warthog]

"But I hear bear meat is greasy if not cooked right, "

Will also give you trichinosis "if not cooked right" (think pork).

[jeffc]

Here in the woods of west Ocala, FL, we have Eastern Wild Turkeys roaming our property all the time. A whole gaggle of them, all females and little ones (in the Spring). Only seen a Tom twice - hoowee, those guys are BIG.

The ones here don't like bread, though. I threw out some stale bread once (for the wild rabbits) and the turkeys ignored it. Crows got the bread - I hate crows. Try to take a nice walk and they follow you around screeching their warnings.

Saw a hawk take down a crow once in midair. Good for the hawk!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What’s the correct term for the Odocoileus Virginianus that has overrun us?

[Viking2002]

I currently live in Alabama. All we got is turkey vultures and trailer park birds strolling along everywhere. Neither appeal to me.

[Texas Eagle]

Heh, heh.

[Viking2002]

There’s the trick - clean it and get the raw flesh on ice as quick as possible. Same applies to game fish. I hope this thread is making some vegans puke on their Birkenstocks. LOL!

[a fool in paradise]

Feed a turkey sunflower seeds and you’ve fed it for one day.

Teach a turkey to plant sunflower seeds and you’ve feed it for a lifetime.

[Viking2002]

LOL We used to keep crows as our backup prey if we were hunting squirrels. It was like, “OK, bad day hunting, let’s plug a few caws.” Screw Edgar Allan Poe. Dirty, noisy damn birds.

[freebird5850]

That would make a good band name.

[Fresh Wind]

Wild turkeys are strange birds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnfCsAI0ps

[4yearlurker]

I used to cut deer during deer season for extra Christmas money. We would cut about 3 or 4 black beer a year too. A few hunters did not want any of their bear meat,just the hide. Bear is a mess to cut. About 4 inches of fat and the meat is black and greasy. Almost impossible to run through the grinder because it would turn to mush. It had to be partially frozen. I made me a batch of Italian sausage with black bear and pork fat off the loin. Clark....that was gooo..od!