I'm posting this picture for Jim ... He will have to pipe in for the story, but he is starting the 2011 season with style...
Big Jim Successful Hunters
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and this is what a Big Jim Broadhead will do....
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That's awesome!!! :notworthy:
Glad he got one. I think the turkeys are starting a little later this season and prime time hasn't begun here. I look forward to hearing the tale.
Very nice! :thumbsup:
Oh man!! We don't even start for over another month here!! Can't wait!
Great job!
:clapper:
Nice work Jim. Don't stay too long you need to be at the KY Trad Fest next weekend.
Oh, I am SO jealous!
Great job Big Jim!
:thumbsup:
Big Jim makes that bird look like a chicken!! I guess I know why they call him big Jim. Congrats!!!
Very nice Big Jim
Way-to-go, nice bird....but please turn that arrow around, its scary looking...
Way to go.!! Nice Bird
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
He should send that one back, cause it's got a giant hole in it!!!! Is that what a 300 grain broadhead does?
Great looking bird.
:archer:
Nice bird Jim! Congrats!
Man, that bird never knew what hit him. A Scud-Head like that launched from about a 100# bow!
Good work Jim! Congrats!
Mice Congrats Jim! Looking forward to a story to go with it.
I was fortunate enough to be invited down to Apopka Florida for a Osceola turkey hunt and couldn't pass it up. Yes, what a morning. My friend set out a blind and 3 decoys. As I was trying to show him how to use the video camera, the birds came in not leaving enough time to video. This gobler closed the distance from about 75+ yards and walked straight to us. At about 8 yards, he turned around revealing his back and I sent a BigJim through his back. I thought that I had spined him because he hit the dirt and went to flopping around. In a couple of seconds, he jumped up and ran out to about 30 yards. I nocked another arrow and prepared for a follow up shot. I could see my arrow protruding about a foot out of his chest. Before I could shoot again, he ran another 30 yards and went to flopping again. He then ran behind a brush pile and died out of site. All in all, it took about 1 minute, but probably much less time than that.
While waiting, trying to give my turkey time to die, my friend called up two jakes. I could have taken one of them also if I was so inclined, but I was not interested in the young bird even if it was legal to take two in a day. All in all a great time but over rather quick.
He is a nice bird. Not the biggest -- 9" beard, but had three beards total (two little bitty beards and one good one). Also had a 1" sur. I new that the Big Jim head would do a number on him, but was totally amazed by the devastation.
I used my 80lb Thunder Child and a 780g arrow tipped with a 300g bigjim head. I know it is a little light for turkeys, but after all the threads of light weight bows doing the job, I thought I would give it a chance :)
BigJIm
QuoteOriginally posted by BigJim:
I used my 80lb Thunder Child and a 780g arrow tipped with a 300g bigjim head. I know it is a little light for turkeys, but after all the threads of light weight bows doing the job, I thought I would give it a chance :)
BigJIm
:laughing: That's funny right there!! Good job Jim!!!
Great Bird and for that light of bow :archer:
Way to go Big Jim and congrats on the dirtybird!
awesome!!!!!!!!!!mark#78 :wavey:
Congrats on a great thunder chicken! :thumbsup:
Way to go man.... bigger than a quail... LOL
Nice bird!
Looks like a massive hole in that thing!
That's great! ! Congrats on the bird Jim hope to have a pic or two with my TC this spring!
Way to go sir! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Most Excellent Big Jim! Way to go on the OSCEOLA!
Awesome!
:wavey: :campfire:
F-Manny
Man we still have snow on the ground ! This just ain't fair. Nice bird Jim.
OK, you have had your fun, now chain yourself back to your workbench! :bigsmyl:
With luck there will be a Merriams thunderchicken that will fall to a Thunderchild this spring, as well.
Nice bird!
amazing job!!!
Great job Big Jim.
I hope to find out 1st hand how the 'Big 3's' inflict devastation.
Nice, congrats!
:readit: :D
WELL DONE !
Excellent! Congrats! :thumbsup: :notworthy:
Awesome Jim. A big congrats.
Nice job Big JIM.
:thumbsup:
Yep, it's all about shot placement. Even a piddling 80# bow and a tiny little 300 grain, 1 1/2", 3 blade broadhead will take them down if you put'em in the vitals. :laughing:
Good shootin Big Jim! Nice bird.
Great shoooting Jim!!!!
That's awesome Jim, great job! :clapper:
80 pounds! :eek:
Holy smokes man, you went well prepared just in case that tom decided to stop behind one of those cypress trees or a palmetto didn't ya?
Shouldn't have no problem plowing that 300gr. head right through it to get to the bird! :goldtooth:
Big Jim - You were shooting a very high powered set-up relative to the quarry.
I am fully aware that getting a complete pass thru on a turkey can be tough. It just seems difficult to imagine that shooting these birds with your set-up wouldn't have yielded a complete pass thru unless the arrow contacted the ground.
Knocking the bird off his feet must absorb a vast amount of energy far more than I had believed.
It is hard to say what happend exactly since it happened so fast. I thought I spined him because he hit the ground immediately and went to floppin. I heard a very loud crack when the arrow hit him too. Lots of things possible. I was sitting and may not have made it to my full draw (?) The path of destruction was huge and many bones broke. I do recall him dragging one leg after he jumped up and hopped off.
If It helps the puzzle, I shot a eastern out in Kansas a while back with an 85lb bow and nearly the same set up only using one of those gobbler getter expanding heads and only penetrated about 4"s but also cut his spine in two.
Bigjim
Big Jim - Thank you for the response.
GOOD SHOOT,GOOD BOW,GREAT BOWYER,,,