From: Straydog
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Date: 20-Oct-16 |
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I just lost another turkey this morning. Hit that sucker dead center broad side, blood and even pieces of meat on the ground. Arrow is covered with turkey. I am so disgusted and frustrated I may not shoot another one. Can someone suggest a broadhead that will do the job, I've used about every fixed head wondering if a mechanical like a rage might work better. Shooting a 50# recurve.
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From: GLF
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Date: 20-Oct-16 |
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I've always used snuffers for turkey ever since Roger made the first ones. So far(knock on wood) I haven't lost one.
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From: Chris1960
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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JMO... Not the broadhead that matters on a turkey but rather the arrow. If the arrow blows through, you can very well lose the bird. The shaft slides made by zwickey can put an end to that problem. Basically the same claws as the judo point but no screw in. The prongs slip on the shaft and when the bird is hit, does not really impede penetration so much as keep the arrow from passing through. Mine always ended up back at the feathers.
If the arrow remains in, the bird cannot fly and you have a much better chance of recovery as the arrow also acts as a simple drags that hinders movement through brush, etc.. Better than a string tracker.
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From: keepemsharp
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Have used fiber plumbing washers that fit the shaft snug and keep the arrow in them. Just slides back to the fletch.
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From: Huggins
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Gotta get them through the ribcage. They are so tough.i killed a tom a few weeks Ago with a grizzly single bevel. I hit base of wing went through upper part of rib cage and out other wing. Arrow stayed in the bird. It went 30 yards and tipped over. Break the wing bone and get into the vitals takes a tougher head than most think for a bird. I shot 50# big river longbow 8 strand d-10
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From: oldgoat
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Simmons Shark and wait for a Texas Heart Shot! Their vitals are tiny, you stand the best chance of hitting them shooting from straight behind with the widest cut you can get. I'd stay away from the mechanicals!
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Turkey vitals are relatively high on the bird and forward. Most guys shoot too far back and too low. Check some photos of the vital section of a wild turkey.
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From: NOCKBUSTER
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Follow there legs up 2 to 3 in and that where there vitals are if you shoot low you hit the legs they are not going any where with no legs. I use a snuffer with a muzzy grass hopper behind it. But you just can't beat a 12 GA.
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From: dean
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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I Iowa 9/16" blunts are legal. I talked with the DNR turkey specialist and he swears by them. What was tested was the original bludgeon, 9/16" shaft size. I know a compound shooter that was present that has gone to them, he has killed three turkeys with them with no run aways. I asked him if they were all head shots, he said that he is not a good enough shot for that. He said he goes for high body. He did admit to taking nothing but feathers on a couple, but he said a solid hit knocks them down and they stay down. His arrows are just Walmart carbons and his draw is not that long, his bow is set at 50 pounds. I shot one with an old 11/32 bludgeon from a 64 pound at 26" Schulz, it hammered it down and I finished it off with a close shot using an HTM with a nickel glued on it. My bows that are 55 or less, I hesitate to use the blunts, I am told by trad archers that it should be broadheads only, and told by the DNR guy to go ahead and try the loaded blunts on turkeys. The problem is that trad archers that are convinced it should be big broadheads only, for the most part have never used the blunts or smaller broadheads. I do know that Pearson Deadheads work well, but in one case the second shot taking the bird down on the run was a welcome bit of luck.
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From: Mint
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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George is right. Check out where the vitals are and hit them there and you won't get a pass through or lose your bird. You can also use a string tracker.
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From: Codjigger
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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I just read about a fellow who went to the wide razor blade..guillotine. . Type heads.said you either hit or miss with head..neck shots and if you hit you never lose them. Does anyone have any experience with those? Sandy
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From: Bowmania
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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I don't know how much experience Chris1960 (or could be using very heavy poundage)has with turkeys, but with the 6 I've shot (one recurve, 5 longbow) you don't blow through turkeys. Penetration on a turkey is harder than a whitetail. In fact I want my arrow to go through.
Get this the last elk I shot had the arrow go through to the fletches. The last turkey I shot the arrow went though to the fletches. Same bow, same arrow, but STOS 160 on the elk and 160 Snuffer on the turkey. I was told the elk was 900 to 1000 (didn't think elk got that big, but the person that told me married Connie Rentro and knows more about elk than me) and the turkey was 24 pounds. Something about feathers, hollow bones, and lightness that make penetration tough.
You should use a string tracker and a three blade. The reason I say 3 blade is if you think of the spine a two blade can go past the spine and not cut it whereas a 3 blade in the same spot and you have a broken spine.
Bowmania
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From: Straydog
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll try something to keep from a pass through. I wish I could have gotten a video of this shot. The arrow went through the bird, went into a thick mesquite bush and somehow deflected straight up and came down about 30 yards behind me. I swear I wouldn't have believed that was possible. We had a fresh norther blow in and the wind was gusting to around 30 so maybe it blew the arrow back over me when it got high enough. I don't know but that was certainly a sight to behold. :) Anyway thanks again. Ronnie
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From: boatbuilder
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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A man that has killed more turkey than i've seen told me pass throughs are not good, better with big dia. shafts and large broadheads. The only turkey i have ever killed was with large diameter cedars and an Ace broadhead and still flew away but dropped 100 yrds away and crawled into brush next broadhead took his head off
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From: Bode
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Date: 21-Oct-16 |
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A pass through on a turkey is as good as a miss. Have shot quite a few and a pass through usually means you are 2 far forward. The vitals on 3d targets are 2 far forward and when I first started hunting them had a few hits---pass throughs that I felt were perfect hits---never saw them again. Now on broadside try to hit just above thighs and that works real well. Broad head of choice is Simmons Tree Shark---2" cut. Good luck!
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