A wild turkey isn’t like the ones in the store, period. There is 1/10 as much fat, and a wild bird actually uses its legs and wings, making them tough and sinuey. Unless you cook them in a very wet method, or cut those off and cook them separately, those turn out like turkey flavored shoe leather. There’s not much meat to begin with, so most people do it once or twice and start breasting them.
I’d never breast a pheasant, but I certainly will breast a dove or a duck. I’ll pluck a Canada, or a quail but not every time. I’d like to see you pluck 100 snows.
Why do you waste all the feathers like that!?! I use them to tie flies, and that stuff adds up buying it in a ziplock at the fly shop.
Why do people waste the skins? I’ve got a traditional brain tanning method that makes buck skin turn out soft as Egyptian cotton!
There’s always going to be someone who renders fat, grinds the bones to meal, eats or uses the organ meats, pickles the duck feet, etc. Good for them.
IMO, take the game legally and it’s yours to do with as you like. People who hunt a lot and for whom wild game is regularly part of their famly’s table figure out what works for them. I know guys who filet trout. I might roll my eyes privately, but it’s their catch and they can do what they like. I don’t care to tell them they’re doing it wrong, because they may not be.