FINALLY cooked the bird

[TomBow]

First Trad Bow Kill:  Nice Gobbler.....last year.
He'd been in the freezer for .....a while.  Last Weekend off so time to relax and cook the durn bird.  Turned out juicy and delicious.  Here's the details:

Thawed bird thoroughly, rubbed with Penzey's BBQ 3000, paprika, garlic powder, ground black pepper and Thyme, then into the fridge for a day.  Respiced before cooking, added minced garlic and garlic juice from large store-bought jar, sorta basted the bird with garlic, stuffed cut apple into the breast bone and tied up the breast with string to hold the apples in there, one more apples worth of slices into the cavity.  Then a full pound of thick cut bacon was laid and pinned over the breast.  Big foil pan and foil covering the bird while cooking.  Grilled the bird as follows:  laying on it's side, 24 minutes with left burner going, 24 minutes with other burner going (indirect cooking on half the bird?), flip the bird over, same time on that side, then breast up for 24 minutes until temp was 170 or so, rested bird for 20 minutes,  Freegin Delicous.  

Give it a try, it's GOOD!

[PaulDeadringer]

That sounds awesome. I love me some wild turkey. How'd the legs eat? I've never had much luck cooking them.