I've done about everything there is to do to clean a turkey. Plucked quite a few. It's not as bad as it sounds or others make it seem. I've skinned them. I wouldn't do that anymore. Mostly now I just breast them out and either grill them or crock pot em.
You can cut the beard off easy enough if you get some skin with it. I do the same for the tail. Youtube would show you a video I'm sure if you searched there.
The meat is decent, but dry. The legs are pretty useless unless you're starving as far as I'm concerned. They're stringy as hell and just not very good.
