Smoking Your Turkey

If you're lucky enough to harvest a wild turkey this season I've got a great resource for you. Here's Sportsmen's Warehouse Sales Associate Ken Combs: "It's turkey season. What do you recommend for smoking your turkey? Hands down a pellet grill. You can do it with any smoker but the best way in my opinion is a pellet grill. I have a Camp Chef pellet grill that we sell and it's absolutely amazing. It has about 560 in.² of cooking surface. You can do a turkey in it, ribs, chicken, poppers, all kinds of different things you can do in them. They are pretty much a set it and forget it smoker. Just set the temperature and loaded with the pellets and let it go and it pretty much does the rest for you. What are the pellets made out of? A lot of the pellets are alder based, depending on which brand you go with, but as far as the pellets go we carry hickory, mesquite, apple, alder, cherry, pecan, there are some gourmet blends and championship blends by Gourmet Barbecue. So it is real wood? 100% hardware, yes. When you first started up it produces quite a bit of smoke. Camp Chef has two smoke settings. You can smoke at 170° on a low smoke or you can do it at 220° on a high smoke. That will produce the most smoke.