Written by Luke Clayton

Thanksgiving and turkeys go together like well, bread and butter. I seldom think of Thanksgiving that my mind doesn’t conjure up a plate full of roasted turkey setting atop a plate full of cornbread dressing with, of course, a generous helping of cranberries atop!

About the beginning of deer season each year, I begin plotting a plan to add a wild turkey to the big domestic bird that graces our table. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I could get away with serving only wild turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. The family is too large and I would have to harvest four wild birds to feed everyone. I do good to take one early in the season each fall but a wild turkey for Thanksgiving is always my goal!

Some years I am successful in taking a gobbler or hen (yes, hens ar

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