broadheads for turkey

[Bowspirit]

Curt, is all that interior damage on, if I'm reading correctly, the liver, from your Snuffer...

[Guru]

Chris, actually the Snuffer passed just behind the liver.

[Bowspirit]

Oh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up...

[ishiwannabe]

Ok I have a question for those of you who do this regularly...what is the best body position for a shot(IYO)? Broadside? Strutting? Seems like a strutting tom walking away would be perfect. What are your prefrences?

[Doug S]

My favorite shot is just like deer, just very, slightly quarting away and CLOSE. I like to take out the opposite upper leg. To me strutting or not isn't important, but it does make it a little more fun if their strutting.
I shot a couple of Ostrich's with the quarting away shot. I wanted to avoid the leg bones and didn't want to try the head shot. It works well on birds as well as elk,deer, pigs ect...

[Biggie Hoffman]

Uh.....Doug, I don't get it...why quartering away? You havin penetration problems on turkey legbones?????

[ishiwannabe]

Seems like a shot at a bird facing you or away is more apt to disable...spine, vitals....a little off in either direction and you should still be ok...I know the one I shot broadside took the hit like a champ, lucky I cut its wing off and it bled out quick.

[Biggie Hoffman]

I'm mmmmmmmissin something here...a turkey or a rabbitt or a coon......there is no reaason to choose a "shot angle" just the correct angle to skewer the vitals.

[ishiwannabe]

True Biggie...Im strictly speaking hypothetically.
As it is, Turks have  very small vitals, so my point is to take a shot that allows for  the human error factor...miss the vitals hit the spine type of thing, if you will. Just seems like the best shot to me.

[Doug S]

Biggie
  I just like the shot that's all. I find it easier for me to concentrate on a small spot. I hate the frontal shot. Although I have done it. He ask the best positon IYO. That's mine. You can kill em with any position including head shooting them. I have killed them at all angles but that's my favorite. If I miss a little I still get the best results this way IMO. Now ostrich legs should be avoided.

[Biggie Hoffman]

gotcha......

[Guru]

"corner to corner" is a great way to shoot a turkey!! Two of my best shots were like that...one back to front and one front to back...you can see that hunt in the member videos under "Curt Cabrera's hat trick"...as you can see,he didn't go very far!!