They really are not hard to clean if you don’t treat them like a domestic bird. Just make a small cut through the breast skin and peel the skin back enough that you can filet each side of the breast.
I like to cut the breast meat into 1/4" thin slices, put a bit of cream cheese, blu cheese, chopped green onion, on the slice, roll it up wrap some thin sliced bacon around it (use toothpick to hold together), grill these and add BBQ sauce just before removing from grill.
The leg/thigh is tough to eat. I skin, then cut them off, Boil in a very large pot, with some salt and pepper, until the meat will pull off very easy. Let the the leg and thigh cool and then pick the meat off much as you would pulled pork. Strain the cook pot contents and save. Use this saved stock, meat, add veggies and noodles, to make the best turkey noodle soup you have ever had.
Sure wish I had a few of your turkeys!
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