I want to hunt ostrich and I am pretty sure I can use my turkey setup. Gobbler Guillotine will lobe the head of a tom, but has anyone used them on ostrich? I want to make some boots and scramble some ostrich eggs.

How close can you get?

Don't know about ostrich but they work well on emu.

I’ve bounced bullheads off of 2 birds, not hit dead center in the neck, just below the head. Both birds ran off giving alarm putts. That was two mornings in a row. Later the second morning I shot one in the head with a snuffer. I wouldn’t even think about shooting an ostrich with one. Better off sticking to a big game set up on my opinion

??? is this a joke?

There is no magical set up or designer heads that really work better than a deer hunting setup. Hit em in the vitals and since they can't fly away, follow a good blood trail.

A sharp clean cutting broadhead is the best turkey broadhead as well. A turkey's neck is nearly always in motion, and from plenty of talk here about their accuracy, or lack thereof, few should be shooting at their neck anyway. You can get lucky, but better to shoot for the vitals like you would on bigger game.

I'd think two blade would be easier to get through the feathers than 3 blade.

An ostrich can get to be 300+ pounds so they are a formidable target to hunt.

You know how many Beards I nearly cut off shooting at the base of the neck. A few to tell ya.

I can't imagine shooting a 300 pound bird. 2 blade for sure and a shark BH at that super sharp with a 2018 alum.

How you getting close to them? Can they be called?

More Trolls....

I have hunted in Africa and Ostrich is a tuff bird. Pun intended. I never shot one but saw some wounded

I wouldn't use any exspandible broadhead stick with a good two blade broadhead like a Zwickey delta or an ace or any good sharp strong head. They are big tuff birds.

I went to Africa and had no idea that I would want to hunt them, I soon realized they are one of the wildlest and wiley animals on the face of the earth. I watched one day in amazement as our tracker stefanis poked his head over a dune, the ostrich was all of 800 yards away and spotted him. It happened many times and eventually I shot one at 485 yards with the rifle. They can really see and shooting one with traditional gear would be the ultimate challenge. I would definitely use a big game setup on them.

In Zimbabwe there was an aggressive male ostrich in the vicinity of our camp and the PH told us not to get near him. If he did come on, we were told to lay flat on the ground. He said we would get stomped and bruised a bit, but they could not use their spur to sideways kick or disembowel us. My nonhunting daughter went for a jog along the two track one morning and it was a foot race back to camp, which she won. It chased our Toyota one day and the PH said that was enough. He drove out during dinner and we heard one shot and no one asked at what.

As strange as that, my son, a sergeant for a sheriff’s department in the next county got involved in chasing a loose emu on the interstate. He and an old cowboy roped it and managed to toss it in the back of the patrol car where my son put a sack over its head and held it down while the cowboy drove them back to the owner. It all ended well, except for the pictures of the thin blue line covered in feathers and bird crap in the back seat wrapped around a large bird.

I wouldn’t use anything less than a full big game set-up with a two-blade, and did turn down a shot from a blind. It just didn’t seem to interest me to put an arrow in an ostrich. The pictures were good enough.

scoop...

for awhile raising emu's was kind of a novelty, niche market thing. Not sure what they even used them for?

anyway I heard the story from a buddy involved in the pursuit about one that got out here in PA, bunch of guys trying to catch it.

One good ole boy that was accustomed to farm life and hunting ect.. As he said..."I just figured I'd corner him and grab the sucker"....simple as that.

He did, and it kicked the snot out of him...lol He was somewhat the brunt of jokes for awhile after that.

Shade mt-- It was such a great spectator sport for those jammed up on the interstate watching all the fun, that the county fair board considered adding emu roping to the summer fair and rodeo. Just a tip--ropers might want to make sure they pick up both feet with their loop when healing; roping the head is like roping a snake I hear... Just saying.

I have eaten Ostrich. Meat is a similar beef in color and flavor and lean. If they lived here, for me it would be a tough choice to hunt Ostrich or deer for the meat. Man that was some fine eaten. DANNY

Thanks, they are in this game ranch and they are breeding out of control

Sounds like a hoot of a time Scoop

I heard that Cassowary is up for auction...

Apparently the Medical Examiner who dead the post-mortem on the owner said the bird had “no sense of humor whatsoever”...

If we had big birds here, I’d be delighted to hunt them!

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