My friend Ken Wiegand was in for a surprise when he got home last week. He noticed turkey tracks in the snow, and when he looked out the window, he saw the strangest — and most beautiful — wild turkey ...

I enjoy smoking wild turkey breast from time to time, although it’s not my go-to technique. The meat from a wild turkey is so lean and—especially if it’s an older tom—dense, it doesn’t lend itself to ...

Nick Smith knows Vermont turkeys. The Groton resident is the son of a taxidermist, and he’s been a devout turkey hunter all his life. Smith, a professional forester, also contracts regularly with the ...

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The wild turkey is one of America’s favorite game birds. Saved from precipitous decline in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the birds now range across the entire Lower 48. While there are five subspecies in ...