OT...Trapping Wild Turkey

Red1 · Jul 30, 2009

Ok, I can't take it anymore. I can see these guys from my kitchen window, and I've heard they taste really really good, especially set in one of those deep grease pots heated with a 5 gallon propane burner...

So, the description from a boy scout website....

A wild turkey trap is made by first digging a ditch; then over one end is built a rude structure of logs, covered at the top. The structure should not be tight, but, of course, sufficiently close not to let the birds through. Indian corn is scattered about and in the ditch, and inside of the pen. The turkeys follow up corn in the ditch, and emerge from it on the inside. Once there, the silly birds never think of descending into the ditch, but walk round and round the pen, looking through the chinks of the logs for escape that way. To make all sure, the ditch should end about the center of the pen, and a bridge of sticks, grass and earth should be built over the ditch, just inside of the pen, and close to the logs; otherwise, in going around the bird might step inside the ditch, and once there it would follow the light and thereby reach the outside of the pen.

I don't want to use the rifle...neighbors might get upset.
Anyone ever tried this?

thx

Anonymous-0 · Jul 30, 2009

Seems much less bother just to stop by the local grog shop.

Tom in TN · Jul 30, 2009

Red,

Okay. Long, long ago I was a Cub Scout and subsequently a Boy
Scout. I've since become an old man but in the process I earned
a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree. However, with all of
that experience and "book-learning" behind me, I must confess
that I have no idea what this Boy Scout manual is saying.

I'm glad I don't have trap wild turkeys for survival.

Tom in TN

Anonymous-0 · Jul 30, 2009

Ive shot 2 legal hunting.Dont bother.They are survival meat.Breast is good the rest is soup.Trapping is illegal here.1000 buck fine.Go buy one from the store, costs less than a permit to hunt one.

old · Jul 30, 2009

Doing what your talking about might get you in hot water fast as in not legal to hunt turkey out of season and the fines can be very big as in $500 plus. Plus if you use a method not as per code of your state the fine can be even larger

landlord7012 · Jul 30, 2009

Mebbe you could use the "bear trap" - dig a hole, fill it with ashes and place peas all around it. When the turkey comes to take a pea just kick him in the ash hole.

Seriously though, I remember seeing the first planted turkeys here in WI in the '80s. Now they are EVERYWHERE. Local outdoor columnist reports hundreds of them, just in the northern portion of our county, being taken each time the season is open.

Let Wiley Coyote eat that one and get yourself a Butterball for on the grill!

Good eatin'
Bill

Red1 · Jul 30, 2009

<chuckle>

Well, I put out the live trap I bought for armadillos...baited with some jolly green giant corn.....guess if I catch anything...other than a skunk, or a possum or a racoon i'll let er go. Could of sworn I heard they were tasty.

kyplowboy · Jul 30, 2009

My granddad showed me how to make a trap like that one time on a smaller scale. He said they used to trap quail like that when he was a kid in the 30's. Wasn't any turkeys round here then. I was about 10 and didn't beleive him so we made one. Caught 6 or 8 quail. Turned them loose. He said the secret was to bait the trap in the morning and go back to check after dark when the birds wouldn't fly out.

What you are wanting to do is illegal as home made sin but good luck.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jul 30, 2009

Umm that first part about digging a ditch made me loose my appetite for wild turkey right there.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 30, 2009

a metal bed spring with corn as bait

farmer101IL · Jul 30, 2009

Just shoot the bstrd with a .22 and get it over with.. Bait with corn.
Inject a little high speed lead poisoning . Take the legs and breast . Cube the breast 1inch pieces dip in egg and flour. Deep fry for a few minutes.
Yummmy.

Farmer

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