Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Pluck or skin?

Most of the time my birds end up as part of a pot pie, stew or caserole. So I skin. It's easier to get shot out, too.

You? Pluck or skin?

I just breast them out

You don't take the thighs or legs? You take the gibblets?

plucked once or twice when my FIL was showing me how to turkey hunt.

Just breast, but i do keep the legs and thighs.

thighs and legs are ok if cooked in a pressure cooker. There is not a lot of meat on them. Some people think all turkeys have a Butter Ball stamp on them.

I breast out most of them. But, have skinned several too.

Fillet out the white meat and cut off the running gear and put them in a Instapot for 54 min...

I just breast them out too.

Skin.

Can't just pitch the rest, there is always a soup option.

Plucked one. Never again. Usually just breast out and remove thighs. This year going to skin, remove as much meat as I can and then make bone broth from the carcass.

I’ve done both. Most of the time I skin them. I used to pluck them for the deep fryer and found it wasn’t needed. The hot oil seals them up just fine skinned or plucked.