Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving and may all our "turkeys" end up in the oven. ;-)

Ditto. I shot my turkey with a semi-automatic pistol. It's kinda hard to kill one throwing rocks or by harassment.

Cept those that end up in bottles. :/

Same here. Have a good one.

I thought the shotgun was traditional, so you and your family can politely pick out the pellets and put them around your plate nicely :-)

Dave

We shoot them in the head with a 22 cal. target pistol hereabouts. This gives you the maximum clean meat and since the advent of political correctness and environmental awareness steel shot is just bad for the teeth.

Cheers,

Earle

Head shots are the way to go. We have a real boom year for turkeys here in the central Sierras. Two hens on the ranch where i operate a machine shop had 14 poults that made it to full size this year, and i know of quite a few other very large flocks in the area. It has also been a good year for deer, I saw at least 5 sets of twin fawns on my way home (17 miles) last friday. Global warming indeed!

My brother lived in the Solomon Islands for a year. They had a novel method of dispatching chickens - grab em by the feet, stuff them into a traffic cone appended upside down on a wooden pole, and then slice off the protruding head with a machete. James discovered unexpectedly that he had a real talent for this - he could do 45 an hour which was apparently quite impressive.

Dave

Yup, done thousand, the funnel bleeds them, and keeps them from flying around. Also if it's just one chicken or in this case turkey, I would just entice them to come closer by dropping corn out on the ground (our chickens were loose) closer and closer until I grab them by them by the head and twirl them for a couple of seconds and their heads would pop off then it was chasing them around for about a minute. God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O mailto: snipped-for-privacy@billhughes.com