2021 Turkey Meat Pole

[tuk]

My two go-to techniques to celebrate turkey and have it not tough are fried turkey nuggets and sous vide. I've made a lot of delicious tough turkey and then decided I like it so much more than to eat it dry and tough. Even grilled perfectly doesn't hold a candle to these methods as far as tenderness.

Turkey breast and "tenders" have substantial tough parts in them, but even a 3 year plus bird is extremely tender using this approach. The large end of the breast (front, rounded end) needs sinew trimmed off and the "tender" needs the central tendon removed. I also square up the long tail of the breast to get a more even shape. This trimming makes nuggets, but the sinew has to be trimmed off the nuggets too.

Trimmed, rolled and tied. You can see it is smallish, but that is due to the trimming to remove sinew and to shape.

In bag with a pat of butter to sous vide at 140 for a couple hours.

Done.

Nuggets. Soak in buttermilk, salt, pepper and egg and roll in flour and then fry. Dip in something - honey, sweet and sour, etc...

Thanks. Will have to try. Might go back out for another try today

 

[hobbes]

Southern Michigan Bird, great hooks and a great beard. 11 7/8 in beard and spurs were 1 3/4 and 1 7/8 inches. 27 lb bird. 5/1/21 shotgun

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Good grief that's a tank!

 

[Dennis]

Colorado 2021

 

[Gunnersdad49]

Went on my fourth ever turkey hunt and got my third and fourth birds (had 2 tags). So much time in a ground blind trying to call them in to bow range, but they were henned up and would gobble but not come in.

The first one I ambushed in a ravine. I saw them milling around, so my buddy went one direction and watched the ravine about 300 yards from where we spotted them. I went the opposite way, and got lucky. Shot him at about 30 yards.

The second one got as close as 20 yards to my blind but wouldn’t come out of the brush. He joined up with 3 other Toms and about a half dozen Jakes and hens. They went to the corner of a field that butted up to a creek bed. Big mistake. I crept in to about 45 yards and picked the bigger one off away from the crowd.

My buddy got the biggest bird, a legit fence hanger with a 10” beard. And one other guy connected.

 

[Erict]

NY spring season is May 1-31, 1 bearded bird/day, 2 per spring season, sunrise to noon only.

Rain and wind to 40 mph gust the night before opener and still only 34 degrees at dawn. It took until after 11 AM to find and coax this boy in for a little late morning love. He got levelled at 17 yards with 1 7/8 oz of #5 Federal lead. 18.5 lbs, 1" spurs, 7 1/4" beard with very straight ends that look like he broke off from ice/snow this winter. The sun was really at a great angle to highlight the "fire" in the feathers.

Sous vide 140-degrees for 5 hours with 4 pats of butter, 4 lemon slices, 1 tsp. dried rosemary, salt, pepper. Quick brown in oven broiler thereafter. It came out really, really succulent.

 

[kpshunts91]

West Virginia Opening Day, got skunked last season so this one felt extra good!

 

[weekender7]

My wife's 2nd tag filled in NC with another long beard.

 

[bradr3367]

This fella wouldn’t play my game until I moved up to his level. Once I did, it was game on!

 

[hilts]

We found another one in Wisconsin.


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[hersh2209]

Doubled up with my nephew for his 1st tom in the north ga mnts.

 

[hobbes]

Buddy from Kentucky came out
for first Merriam's.

Wednesday


Went to another region on Thursday:
Stud at 11:30




Found another at 3 and I killed him at 3:30

 

[gonhunting247]

My 2021 OR Gobblers. Birds were pretty scattered, which made for a lot of fun hunting in a wide variety of terrain and different elevations!

 

[hobbes]

Crazy beautiful photos man!

 

[RS3579]

PA. 2nd year in a row now. Came in quite hot. Even I’m surprised!

 

[gonhunting247]

Crazy beautiful photos man!

Thanks. I took this photo of bird #3 as he lay when I walked up. The light was just perfect to show all the irredescent colors!

 

[bradb]

 

[nettereo16]

Tagged out in Virginia. Never done that before and I’m eating well!

 

[hilts]

Found another one in Wisconsin. I was able to fill my tag on Mother’s Day and still make it to dinner with the little lady.


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[brockel]

Wasn’t planning on shooting the jake but when him and the Tom were fighting and their heads were together I couldn’t pass up the chance at a scotch double

 

[kamcgraw]

One tag down in Pennsylvania!