Shot placement on turkeys

[Ron LaClair]

It may have been talked about before but I can't remember. I learned my lesson years ago when I shot a big Gobbler broadside right on the wing with a 65# bow, carbon arrow with a three blade Razorcap head. He took off flying  with the arrow hanging down. Shooting a turkey broadside on the wing is like shooting a brick wall.

Now I wait until I get a quartering away shot and aim just above the leg, behind the wing quartering forward into the heart/lung area, results is a dead bird.

The bird is this picture was shot like that with a 42# bow, The arrow from the Bear Razorhead put half of the fletching into the bird. The turkey died 6 feet from where it was shot.

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[woodchucker]

I like the quiver, Ron!!!

Looks like a Ray Lyon "custom" to me??

[woodchucker]

Wings are TOUGH!!!! I'm a "back shooter".... Center of the back, few inches above the tail.

[Ron LaClair]

Center of the back, few inches above the tail.

You havta shoot throught the fan to do that. 

[Terry Green]

For anyone wondering..... we have had a shot placement threads for years....

Turkeys are on the 1st thread on the board....

http://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?board=124.0

Nice Ron!

[Roy from Pa]

I shoot them right between the eyes......

[Ron LaClair]

Good stuff Terry. 

Pretty much verifide what I said....from the front or from the back, get the broadhead into that small heart/lung spot.

[Kokopelli]

Doesn't matter;...................
I 'aim' for the body, my eye sees that brightly colored head bobbing around, ...... and the arrow flies right by it's beak.  If I ever nail a turkey, it'll be a head shot.

[Ron LaClair]

KoKopelli 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU3zdAgiX8

[Terry Green]

The problem with Turkeys is that they roll with the punch....

If they weighed a 100 pounds there wouldn't be an issue with shooting them broadside.

[Follower]

And study real turkey anatomy - not where the rings are on a 3D turkey.   I made that mistake and lost a good bird earlier in the year.   Broadside shot but just ahead of the vitals.

[Roy from Pa]

Kokopelli, LOL

[BAK]

I rolled one with a perfect broadside hit a few years ago.  Zero penetration with a 3 blade.  Knocked him over and he just got up and ran like he!!. 

[Ron LaClair]

" I learned my lesson years ago when I shot a big Gobbler broadside right on the wing with a 65# bow, carbon arrow with a three blade Razorcap head. He took off flying  with the arrow hanging down. Shooting a turkey broadside on the wing is like shooting a brick wall".

[Kokopelli]

 

Working on the problem;
Bought a small lawn ornament whirly-gig bird with the spinning wings. Metallic hot pink, no less.
Cut the head off of one of my cardboard turkey silhouettes and mounted the bird where the turkey's head was.     
Heck of an exercise in concentration when shooting. Ignore the head .......... shoot 'em where he lives !!!!!

[TIM B]

A timely topic!  I like to think the ribcage is a funnel when y shoot them in the back!
Tim B

[Ray Lyon]

Chuck, that quiver was done up by our camp mate Kevin Marshall, who's responsible for teaching me how to convert them.  Now I can take a little credit for Ron's vintage Forgewood arrows he bagged the turkey with.  I had snagged those on the big auction site for a pretty low price and they turned out to be lower spined Forgewoods with Bear Razorheads.  Short story long, they didn't fly well out of my bow but they flew great out of Ron's dual shelf 1956 Kodiak, so I gave them to him and he bagged the turkey in camp with them. 

[Greg Szalewski]

I Have had good results shooting them through the thighs with a big broadhead.