Broadheads for turkey

[FamilyMan]

Does anyone know if mechanical broadheads are legal for turkey? In the big game regs it says they are illegal for big game. I know the spring turkey regs haven't came out yet. But I read the spring turkey regs online at the wdfw website and it doesn't say anything about restrictions on broadheads of anykind. So does that make it legal cause it doesnt say anything against it? If anyone has info I dont I would appreciate it. I would hate to break one of the many absolutely bull***t rules this state has.

[Whitenuckles]

 Magnus Stinger works for me!

[Turkeyman]

They are legal for turkey.

[carpsniperg2]

100% legal i would go with rage i am picking some up myself i like the bullheads by magnus but won't shoot them past 30yards and going to throw a few broadheads in for kicks this spring

[batsquatch]

I just bought the NAP gobbler getters today. Good reviews.

[turkey slayer]

Batsquatch now you just have to hit something

[Tom Tamer]

Expandables are not okay ... however fixed like the Gobbler Getter are.

TD correction.....expandable ARE legal, I wrote the WDFW last year on this. The fixed blade rule applies to Big Game hunting, not small game. The WDFW recognizes turkey as small game.

 I'm going with the Rage three blade, last year I tried the two blade and watched as a quartering away shot on a turkey caused one blade to deploy, making the arrow glance off

On some other forums around the nation I've been reading a lot of bad pub on the gobbler getter, with the edges designed to keep the arrow from passing through a lot of guys are saying the BH's are just bouncing off? Just what I've been reading though.....I took it with a grain of salt myself, who Knows what the exact senario was?

[turkeydancer]

TN - Thanks ... they must have changed the regs since I asked several years back .... thanks again, TD 

[MtnMuley]

Not to stir up an argument Tom Tamer, but are you sure WDFW classifies turkeys as small game?  Last I knew, if you caught a person poaching a turkey, you were eligible for preference points, which are only available with a big game violation...............

[Wayne1]

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Not to stir up an argument Tom Tamer, but are you sure WDFW classifies turkeys as small game?

I would say..  since all you need is a small game licence to hunt Turkey...   they must fall under that catagory

[MtnMuley]

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  since all you need is a small game licence to hunt Turkey... 

You now need more than just a small game license, Wayne1.  As of a year or two ago, you're required to buy your turkey tags rather than them just give you one with a small game license.

[Tom Tamer]

That's w

Not to stir up an argument Tom Tamer, but are you sure WDFW classifies turkeys as small game?  Last I knew, if you caught a person poaching a turkey, you were eligible for preference points, which are only available with a big game violation...............

That came straight from the horse's mouth. I emailed to the WDFW directly and that was their response.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Just to get in on stirring the pot... , would there not be some "deployment" problems with an expandable BH on small game such as a turkey?
I would think that the resistence needed for the blades to open would cause more of a chance of wounding than cutting any vitals, as they are "soft" tissue compared to muscle.
I guess if you just want to carve a piece of breast off.......

 
But then I dont know anything about them (expandables), and hunt with the same set up I use for everything.
 (except I am using a string-tracker)

[Tom Tamer]

Just to get in on stirring the pot... , would there not be some "deployment" problems with an expandable BH on small game such as a turkey?
I would think that the resistence needed for the blades to open would cause more of a chance of wounding than cutting any vitals, as they are "soft" tissue compared to muscle.
I guess if you just want to carve a piece of breast off.......

 
But then I dont know anything about them (expandables), and hunt with the same set up I use for everything.
 (except I am using a string-tracker)

The Rage are front deploy system, where just after a cut on contact point is the " Back of the blade, they are really easty to deploy, so it wouldn't nessasarily cut or wound the animal in this instance, but it will re-direct flight.

 I gotta use the fancy stuff I'm not good enough to run around with flint tips on my bow yet LOL;)

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I gotta use the fancy stuff I'm not good enough to run around with flint tips on my bow yet LOL;)

Actually I am using a Pearson "Deadhead" on a cedar arrow, late '60 Damon Howatt recurve