arrows for turkeys

[IsaacW]

Sorry if this has been covered in depth in the past, but a search brought up A LOT of non-relevant threads.

What do you all use for turkey hunting ...  arrow-wise?  Broadheads?  I have not used bow for turkey yet, but it is on my list.  I have used flintlock, matchlock, and now want to try primitive bow.

IW

[Pat B]

I haven't turkey hunted but if I do I'd use the same head I use for deer hunting.

[lowell]

Same as for deer except usually a shorter bow because  I am usually in a blind.

[Prarie Bowyer]

When I compound hunted I used the Steel Force brand.  They have a a head with serrated teeth and Turkeys on the package.  I didn't use that one.  Ther is alsoone with huge wide heads called the gilliotine. 

I considered using Judo points and taking head shots, otherwise I'd say the same broad head, trade point, or flint head as you use for deer.

[crooketarrow]

  I use the same self bows, shoot arrows, home made trade points,knapped heads I use for deer hunting. If you have a good deer set theres no reason to try to learn something else. When you have mussle menory of this set up. Why change it.

[mullet]

 If you hit a Turkey in the head with a Judo point more than likely you will make it retarded or it will run off and die.  A broadhead or stone point that makes a big hole is best.

[Prarie Bowyer]

If you hit a Turkey in the head with a Judo point more than likely you will make it retarded or it will run off and die.  A broadhead or stone point that makes a big hole is best.

Just thinking to break the neck or miss altogeather and do no damage.

[gstoneberg]

If you hit a Turkey in the head with a Judo point more than likely you will make it retarded....

LOL   Too late for that, turkeys start out retarded.  They are tough though so I use a broadhead. 

George

[sonny]

based on what Eddie says I'd say that some of the folks that I work with have been shot in the head with Judo points 

sorry! but hopefully this thread will get back on track now....
 

[Prarie Bowyer]

how is the meat after a big giant hole is punched in it?  I'd think a stone ponit will be somewhere between sliced and bruised meat.  A wild turkey hasn't realy got legs to speak of as I understand so mutilating a breast might reduce edibles?

I'm not a "eat what you kill only" hunter but .... I do eat what I kill or I don't kill it, unless it's an invasive. . .  or ferral cats far from the barn.  The hunting if fun but honestly I like the cooking and serving it as much or more. 

I have friends that see a deer in the distance and stat counting tines and talking silly like "boon and crocket" or sometn.  I look at the deer and I see a butchers chart and a bag of tip oerlays,buttons, and tool handles.

[Sparrow]

Amen !

[gstoneberg]

how is the meat after a big giant hole is punched in it?  I'd think a stone ponit will be somewhere between sliced and bruised meat.  A wild turkey hasn't realy got legs to speak of as I understand so mutilating a breast might reduce edibles?

Down here in Texas we get to shoot turkeys with a rifle.  Even a bullet to the breast doesn't normally ruin the whole thing.  I soak out as much blood as possible and then cut away anything still bloody which usually isn't much.  Unless the bird is facing me so I can shoot through the V in the wishbone, I take them in the pelvis with either bow or gun.  I'd rather shoot up the butt than the breast.  I never use a shotgun on them, either a bow or a rifle depending on whether I'm hunting or just shopping.

George

[soy]

Same points as deer, I try for a head or drummy shot ...imho a little waste in meat is far better than a lost, wounded bird

[jonathan creason]

I remember seeing a video on the trad site a while back where a guy shot a turkey in the head with a hex point.  He made a great shot, but the turkey stumbled and wandered around for several minutes before it finally fell over dead.

Of course, all I've ever carried is an 870 and I can't even manage a kill with it.

[Prarie Bowyer]

Same points as deer, I try for a head or drummy shot ...imho a little waste in meat is far better than a lost, wounded bird

You are probably right.  What about those serrated heads that help prevent a passthrough or the shaft spring collar things?  I'd think the ideal would be to break the back. 

I know as soon as I'm in front of a turkey I'll get excited and shoot what ever I canhit.  I'll be like "yup . . . shot him in the big toe".  As I show off my mounted toe.  "Next season I'll get the rest of him".