WRT Rio Grande turkey - do not eat the cactus thorns!

At first, I took pains to bring home the whole turkey so it could be baked like in Thanksgiving photos. Then, I saw that the legs and thighs were not being eaten due to the cactus thorns and tough ligaments and switched to the more common Texas Wild Turkey field dressing method as follows:.
Lay bird on it's back and remove breast. Walk away, leaving rest of bird for native animals and birds that know how to eat it. Ants will clean off anything not eaten.
Turn breast over to daughter or wife to be prepared for another delicious and memorable turkey dinner.

Point #2
Turkey have excellent eyesight and can see suspicious movement at a good distance. Decent hearing, but no sense of smell. This Turkey gun greatly simplified taking Rio Grande turkey for me: Savage O/U .22 hornet/12 gauge with Turkey scope:
[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]

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