How tuff are turkeys?

[Curtis Roberts]

Ok Thanks.

[Guru]

Steve, Unfortunately it's not available anymore bud. I wish I'da known, I'd bought the place out!

But the 17# is certainly way better than nothing in my book.

[Skipmaster1]

Originally posted by Curtis Roberts:
So Guru was saying he shoots big broadheads, so would you be able to shoot the Guillotine and still have good arrow flight?

I'm gonna use the GG or the Bullhead this year. I set up the GG for my 49# shrew last year and had great flight at 20yds...I didn't try any farther. I set up a cucumber with a cedar shaft through it to sorta replicate the head and neck of a turkey and it blew rigt through like it wasn't there. I'm sure the neck is tougher but I have no doubts the head will do it's job.....

Plus, lets just say a turkeys neck is 8" long and 2" wide(probably bigger). The head has a 4" cut, each blade is 2". That gives you about a 6" window left to right and another 2" high(low probably wouldn't work as the body will get in the way. Your are looking at roughly a 6x10 kill zone....WAY bigger than the vitals and you can clearly see where you have to aim. Of course you want to be shooting dead center, but things do happen.

[Skipmaster1]

Here is the GG


With the straws for best flight


My "turkey head"




what happened the first shot at 20yds with my 49# shrew

[ishiwannabe]

Great point and great pics Skip....

Only thing I would be worried about is their ability to move their head/neck so fast...

Otherwise, seems like a grea concept for turks.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

Thr one caption says with the straws for best flight.  Do you actually shoot the GG head with the straws on?  Wouldn't that hinder the ability to cut?

[Ybuck]

Turkeys are very tough. Keep in mind "hit em high, watch em die- hit em low , watch 'em go.

[MountainTool21]

I had great luck last spring as my Wensel Woodsman took a nice Tom in southwest NE. I hit him out of the "zone" but left a nice hole big enough to push a banana thru

[Skipmaster1]

Originally posted by Buckeye Trad Hunter:
Thr one caption says with the straws for best flight.  Do you actually shoot the GG head with the straws on?  Wouldn't that hinder the ability to cut?

The straws do make them fly much better, just like a FP. No the straws don't hurt their ability to cut. They blow right off at impact

[Shakes.602]

The W.W.s say to "Sharpen before Use". The 6 Brandly-New I Bought have each taken Hair!! This 3 Blade is New To Me!

[arrowflinger1]

they are extremely tuff mainly do to the small vitals. Just use a head you can shoot accurately any amount of blades in my opinion and thru my experience try to hit them above legs. Theres a lot of good stuff to hit there and a little room for error.

[snufer]

Last year I hit one in the wing butt or very close, using a 44# recurve with a very sharp Wensel Woodsman head on a 500 grain Axis arrow, and got a bounce out! This is the socond time taht this has happened to me. The year before, I hit one in the same spot with the same bow-arrow-head combination and got a complete pass-through, bird ran 25 yards and tipped over !! Go figure!! Trying a two blade head this year.

[ishiwannabe]

This thread has me remembering the three turkeys I have shot with a bow(insert wheeled contraption here).
First one, a fall hen. 84# ,Thunderhead 125...hit her just behind the wing butt broadside. Wing fell off, arrow skipped into the tree tops, never to be seen again. She bled out after 30 yards.
Second, 74#, Muzzy 3 blade 100. Fall tom, out of a deer stand. Drilled him...perfect shot, as the autopsy showed. Arrow made it out the other side, but stayed in him. He tried to flee, but the arrow held him up on branches and such. Had to get down and deliver a coupe de gras.
Third, another fall hen. 74# one of those bleepety bleep expandables from a deer stand. Bought them specifically for turkey. HUGE diameter. Drilled her about four inches below where the feathers stop growing...No blood, no sign. Got my brittany from home...no luck, she was confused by the amount of fresh scent from the flock I think. I found that bird a week later(never gave up). She had crawled into a multiflora rose bush that would make JLMBH hunters blush. The impact was a bit high, but did hit the vitals( the higher angle I had on the shot from the stand). She made it about 150 yards before expiring.

I know, the shots were in the fall, and with a contraption. But I figured it shows just how tough these birds can be.

[turkey522]

Does the string tracker come with a clip of some type to attach the string to the arrow.

Terry