How do you field dress a turkey?

I cut the beard off first, and that gives you a hole to start going down the breast/sternum to the rear end. I don't pluck the things anymore, too much damn work. I take my field shears and cut the wings off, that makes it a lot easier as well.

Depending on the size of the turkey, you should be able to almost pull the guts out with your hand, and also depending on the size of the turkey and your hand, reach up into the chest cavity and get the lungs, heart and diaphragm out.

Basically the guts are the easy part, just make sure you get them all, including kidneys. Skinning it isn't too hard, it's just a matter of pull and cut, pull and cut until you get to a point where it's all peeled away. Different story if you're saving one for taxidermy though.

Well, first you just ask them what they prefer. Pernaps a nice set of heels and a little frock........ Naw, I'm just pullin' your leg.

The way to field dress a turkey is just like you field dress any bird. I have a hook that I made from a piece of steel rod that I carry with me. It is about a foot long and has a hook about half or less the size of the hook on a coat hanger. I stick the hook end into the turkey's vent and push it up as far as it will go. Then I just give it a few twists and pull it out. The guts wind up on the hook and are pulled out when you pull out the rod. With the guts out, the bird is field dressed. You can finish dressing it when you get home. If you've never dressed a freshly killed bird, you will ned to dunk it in a bucket of boiling water to loosen the feathers and then pluck them off. Once the feathers are off, you can finish cleaning the outside of the bird by singing off any tiny feathers over an open flame on your kitchen stove. If your stove is electric, you can use a propane torch to do the singing. Wash the bird out thoroughly trim off any excess fat and skin and you are done.

I have found that instead of plucking and dressing (pulling the insides out) it is easier to skin the breast, and cut the entire breast out of the bird. Then go over to the legs, cut them off at the backbone, and skin. Wild animals have very little fat on them, and the majority of meat on a wild turkey is on the parts mentioned. I then stew the legs, and either smoke or fry the (skinned and boned) breast meat.

Check the game laws in your state. You may have to keep the eniter bird together, with evidence of sex, until you get it home. (or 'a place for final processing")

If you have to keep the evidence of sex on the bird, just keep the legs attached to the feet, and the beard attached to the breast, till you get home.

Wild turkeys don't roast very well. If you want a roast turkey, get a domestic one.

or buy a frozen one and call it a day...haha sorry sweety its just to much hard work ...my grandma use to do that to chickens and that was a little bird. good luck