Where do you aim?

[buglebuster]

Just curious what others do? I personally aim for the gobblers head and have great success, tho I see on TV alot of shots are taken at the base of the neck. Just curious where others aim?

[zwickeyman]

With a shotgun I aim for the middle of the neck

[Jonathan_S]

Right at the base of the beard (archery tackle)

For shotgunning, I'd probably go head.

[D-Rock425]

With my bow i only take head Shots.

[Jonathan_S]

With my bow i only take head Shots.

Broadheads?

[buglebuster]

I forgot to mention, I'm talking shotgun

[Dhoey07]

I stare that bird right in the face, and pull the trigger

[Karl Blanchard]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

[jackelope]

I'm aiming mid-neck.

[Timberstalker]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

Just jack the three full shells on the ground.

[Yelper Guy]

Oh, you mean turkey hunting, I though you were talking bathroom etiquette!
Bottom of head to mid neck.

[buglebuster]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

How does your wife like that method? 

[Jolten]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

How does your wife like that method? 

You looking for pointers to improve wifey's happiness?

[kirkl]

Mid neck for me.

[vandeman17]

depends on distance. If close, head and if a little farther out I will shoot for mid neck.

[carpsniperg2]

With a shotgun I am mid neck in most shot situations. If they are in strut I just cover there head.

With bow I like to either cut there spine or bust them threw the top of the leg and through the hips. You break there hips and they can't push off to fly. Sometime you have to play a little chase

[lewy]

  Depends on how your shotgun patterns the shells your using. You may want to pattern check it on paper, the majority of ur load may miss ur aiming point by enough to surprise you! I find a shell my shotgun likes and then aim for mid neck. Aiming for head puts a good majority of bb's high......good luck

[zike]

 

[Limhangerslayer]

I've always aimed for where the feathers meet the neck.  Then when i miss i lead then according to how far  out they are once i get my next shell jacked in! 

[RadSav]

I've only killed two with the shotgun.  Both times shooting for the head.  My thought always was if they are further than I think I'm still good for a neck impact.

Bow is center back facing away or where the neck meets the head.  But I have been known to get excited and not wait 

[D-Rock425]

With my bow i only take head Shots.

Broadheads?

ive never shot a turkey but when i do its 40 yard head shots only.

[270Shooter]

My gun shoots pretty high so I'll usually aim for where the feathers meet the neck and they usually get hit mostly in the head/neck. I shot a little below where the neck starts once and it worked just fine.

[jasnt]

I've always aimed for where the feathers meet the neck.  Then when i miss i lead then according to how far  out they are once i get my next shell jacked in! 

yup right where the feathers stop

[tonymiller7]

base of the head.  Birds head on top of front bead.

[baldopepper]

I don't know that I really think about a specific spot when I shoot a turkey.  After you've shot a lot, it just seems kind of natural to raise the gun, put it on em and pull the trigger.  I would suggest that you set a target and shoot a lot from several different positions until it just kind of becomes a natural thing to raise the gun and shoot.  I've seen lots of young hunters (mostly on deer) get so caught up in getting the sight in exactly the right spot that the animal (bird) moved away before they got a shot off. I've seen a lot of very good range shooters who weren't worth a penny on live game.  Shooting a lot breeds a famililarity with your gun that can make you into more of a natural shooter and much more deadly on live game. I don't consider myself a great shot, but can honestly say I've never missed a turkey that was truly in killable range.

[turkeydancer]

Get the tom to pop up his head to maximize your target area, and ain 1/2 way between the top of the head and where the neck comes out of the chest ---- the red waddles is a good aiming spot.
 

[ATM green head machine]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

How does your wife like that method? 

ya lets not 

[gaddy]

I always pattern my gun with a large sheet of cardboard. Draw a turk with his neck extended and find where the aim point is to hit the head and neck. Every gun is a bit different with all the different chokes & loads etc.. but you need to find where your aim point is at different yardages. That will tell you where to aim. Don't aim for this or that, aim for where you gun is going to hit the best. You want a head shot, if possible. As far as the wife goes, she wont let you go again if you bring back a bird full of shot and she bites into one. I Guess the word of the day is " Pattern "

[kevinlisa06]

Normally aim for the red waddles, hasn't let me down yet!


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[steen]

I had a 40 yd shot with a shotgun on a turkey and took a head shot .  Killed it dead! Only opportunity I have ever had for turkey.

[SB]

Aim where the neck meets feathers at the waddles.  If you aim directly at the head half of your pattern is in no mans land above him, thus increasing room for air. 

[RadSav]

... thus increasing room for air.

And let me tell you...Air is not a good thing after shooting a turkey.   Had one cover two pastures flying dead!  Luckily there were no trees to block my view.

[Jonathan_S]

Normally aim for the red waddles, hasn't let me down yet!


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Dewlap or caruncle?

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

I really depends on how far I had to chase the bird and timing the shot between uncontrolled breathing......   Neck and head is what I try for.

[DOUBLELUNG]

In close I hold on the base of the beak, further out I lollipop the head on my bead; my go to turkey shotgun patterns a bit high, right on left-right with about 60% of the pellets in the top half of the circle when I hold dead on.  I think I'm 15/18 on one-shot kills, and 16/18 on kills (shot one twice to kill it, missed a tom once, and shot one once that I hit hard but disappeared into a long steep draw full of snowberry and couldn't find him despite searching 5 hours).  My goal is to never shoot past 40 yards, even though my favorite load averages 6 pellets in the head and neck at 55.  Furthest shot to date was 38 yards, and he's the one I shot twice.

[PA BEN]

As said before, pattern your gun at 10 yds, 20 yds, 30 yds, 40 yds and 50yds. My gun will kill a tom dead at 50 yds, I aim at the top of his head. 10 to 30 I aim mid. neck, 40 center of the head. Use a turkey target, here is one to download and print off.
http://www.winchester.com/library/targets/Pages/Targets.aspx

[dawei]

Just curious what others do? I personally aim for the gobblers head and have great success, tho I see on TV a lot of shots are taken at the base of the neck. Just curious where others aim?

I always aim for the base of the neck.

[Dhoey07]

I pull on them like a pheasant as they flush

[MR5x5]

ear

[PlateauNDN]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

How does your wife like that method? 

You looking for pointers to improve wifey's happiness?

3 & done   bullriders at least last 8 seconds.

[Karl Blanchard]

I just close my eyes and pump three times

How does your wife like that method? 

You looking for pointers to improve wifey's happiness?

3 & done   bullriders at least last 8 seconds.

hey I don't make the rules,  WDFW says 3, so that's what I've got to work with

[BOWHUNTER45]

Middle of the neck with a shotgun ...and threw the thigh with a bow ...Yes head shots are great if you are good enough ...shooting threw the thighs seems to be a more guaranteed recovery ...trust me , I been threw a few times and lost a couple by hitting to low or just missing the wing butt ..The 2 I killed with my bow were both thigh shots and they went no where ...just flopping all over the ground 

[Tom Tamer]

With my bow i only take head Shots.

Broadheads?

Why not? I use the Flambeau foam dekes, pin them to a block style target and practice out to 30 on the head, out to 50 on the body. they work great and I usually can find them on clearnance for about 8-10 bucks.

[Jonathan_S]

With my bow i only take head Shots.

Broadheads?

Why not? I use the Flambeau foam dekes, pin them to a block style target and practice out to 30 on the head, out to 50 on the body. they work great and I usually can find them on clearnance for about 8-10 bucks.

I guess because I don't turkey hunt out of a blind or with decoys so I really don't feel like adding another degree of difficulty and/or a marginal shot.  Also broadheads are spendy