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Wild turkey is my all-time favorite game meat ... it’s time to think about how o freeze each hunk of meat. On a big tom, I like to cut each breast in half so that I’ve got four dinners worth of turkey ...

The eastern wild turkey is North America's most abundant and ... heavy snood (which hangs down above a gobbler’s beak) of the tom, though some hens will sport small wispy beards.

Instagram: The The Wild Turkey Doc. No one is better at sharing information ... Strutting will sometimes draw in another gobbler as a challenger. The female turkey dictates tom behavior and can make ...

Everyone wanted to know if Tom was okay. The subzero conditions ... residents were staying inside — and East Wichita’s beloved wild turkey was nowhere to be found. The bird had resided at ...