Shoot through screen up or down

[Lee Lobbestael]

Do you guys hunt turkeys with the shoot through screen on or off? I'm going to bring my two boys (6 and 3) Turkey hunting this spring and am debating if I should use the screen because of their tendency to move around  a lot. Will they pick up movement with just the corner windows open and no screen?

[Recurve7]

Shoot through screen! I've taken several this way.

[Friend]

Mine will be down...

[Bisch]

If I have the option, I always use the netting. It gives me much more freedom of movement when the birds are really close. I also use a string tracker thru the netting with no ill effects!! 

Bisch

[Orion]

I've been shooting through screens for many years.  Never had a problem.  Just keep the screen relatively taught.  I shoot feathers, of course.  I'd certainly test it if I were shooting vanes, which are less flexible than feathers. I also usually use a good size three-or four-blade head, which cuts a good hole in the screen for the feathers to pass.  However, I have also killed a few turkeys through the screen with small two blade heads like the Zwickey Eskimo and Magnus II.   

[Lee Lobbestael]

Great thanks guys I'll run with the screen in place then

[Bisch]

There has only been 2 situations that have messed up a shot thru mesh for me:

A) When my pea brain did not function correctly and I just muffed the shot!

And

B) when I have tried to shoot a critter at a very severe angle thru the netting. My theory is that the fletch can sometimes catch on the netting and throw the arrow off. I came to this conclusion because the hole in the netting is also jagged and not uniform when this happened, and it has never happened shooting thru the netting more perpendicular to the mesh.

Come to think of it, (A) has nothing to do with the netting, so I guess there is only one situation where the netting has messed a shot up for me!!!!

Bisch