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Nope, wild turkey does not taste like a Butterball. For years and years my wife Emily put up with my smoked wild turkey for every feasting type occasion. Then there was an uprising among the families!

My boys and I argued in vain; the womenfolk prevailed and the Butterballs now rule the roost. My filleted turkey breasts get fixed other ways and for other occasions...Geo

I miss seeing my carefully plucked gobblers hanging in the smoker racks at the barbecue place with all the cute little butterballs. The barbecue guy once told me my wild turkey looked like a pond scoggin in there with the butterballs.

A pound of lead shot and a pound of TSS, both size 9. Which looks "heavier" ("denser" more accurately)

I am not a fan of wild turkey �whole� or like a butterball. My wife would be a vegetarian if it weren�t for the fact that she respects the ideaology of game and fish. We make the wild turkey work wonderfully but segregating. Breast is typically split and stuffed - oven baked - stuffed with rice and or black bean mixes. Sometimes Mexican flavors some times mustards.
The wings, rib meat l, shoulders etc. are cubed and used for fajitas or grilled turkey salads.
The legs and thighs do wonderfully in chilis, fajitas stew or other things but I usually precook them I. The crock pot and then pick the good meat before starting the other recipe. All these meals work for the wife and kids.

If I could also get my dog to carry the double gun it would probably improve my success.

Mike

GLS;
Even though you listed lead first I assume the TSS is the bottle on the Left. "IF" pictured in order as listed the lead would appear Densest.

Miller, it was a "test" and you passed. There was a comment that the TSS was "not heavier". Hard to read his mind, but he obviously meant "denser". He was accurate in one respect: A pound of TSS weighs the same as a pound of lead. The sample above is 18+ grams per cubic centimeter. Lead shot hovers at 11 g/cc. Gil

Gil,

From whom are you getting your TSS? I've looked at the Apex TSS load for the 2 3/4" 20ga but they are currently out of stock and at 1 3/8oz per shot a little heavier than I'd like. I have a 20ga Ithaca 37 I'd like to find a good turkey load for. I think a 1 1/8 or 1 1/4 ounce load of TSS 9s @ 1100 fps would be a nice mild load for the gun.

Marc

Marc, I pm'd a name to you. Gil

You guys love to hunt turkeys and I'm happy for you. However, I side with Jon.

Years ago I helped run a quail preserve in North Carolina. We explored all the theories you can imagine. It seems that in different habitats, different factors are more negative than in other areas.

I don't think anything was as universally negative, as fall plowing and failure to leave fencerows.

However, even a blind man can see that we've got more hawks, coyotes, and turkeys than we had years ago. Turkeys eat quail eggs. You can go in an oak woods and see where they've gone on line, literally plowing the ground for food. Quail nest in three-year-old sedge. It is poor protection against predators. And these days it is hard to find.

The one thing Fish and Wildlife has never understood, is that good quail habitat is the best habitat for all Wildlife.

Funny how EVERY special interest group says that about their favorite species' habitat.

The true is, of course, that there is no single best habitat, or even good habitat, for all wildlife.