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#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Capron VA USA
Posts: 45
RE: Kill Zone on Turkey
Wahya is exactly right, where the wing meets the body, where the beard exits the chest, or in the dreaded bunge hole. A large cutting surface is best and try to keep the arrow in the bird. Good luck this year.
#14
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: saint joseph missouri USA
Posts: 548
RE: Kill Zone on Turkey
I think the three described points; start of the beard, wing socket, and where the tailfeathers come together, are your best bets for a good shot. It is my experience that the good "kill" zone on a turkey is just a little bigger than a man's fist from any angle at any given time. I have seen several side shots be a little too far forward on a bird and just rip the breast open,just for the bird to fly away and die. You will need to use a broadhead that will get very little penitration, for a complete pass thru runs too high of a risk of a bird getting away. If you just take out a wing, it may not fly, but it will run like hell. Good Luck and let us all know how it turns out!!
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: Kill Zone on Turkey
Great site NC. Perfect shots. I haven't used them, but think the biggest mechanical going would be the trick. I have a friend that's taken 4 in the last two years with big ole mechanicals. He hunts exclusively out of a double bull blind that he sets up in strutting areas along field edges before the season opens.(private land) His shots have been 7-15 yards. He's passed on a ton of jakes.
#19
RE: Kill Zone on Turkey
One important thing to check on is if it is legal to use a washer or the like behind the broadhead, in some states it is illegal. Check your state regs, the washers are legal in most states though.
The Tazman
The Tazman