What do you shoot?

[mallard79]

What head do you recommend for shooting turkeys with a bow?  I was looking at the gobbler guiotines.  How do they shoot compared to field points?  I am new to archery hunting so any help is apreciated.  Thanks!

[PA BEN]

Here's the one you want. NAP Spitfire Gobbler Getter
http://www.newarchery.com/products/1-13/broadheads/spitfire-gobbler-getters.html

[MuleySniper]

Unless your specifically looking for a decap, any ol broadhead works as long as you hit your mark.
MS

[PA BEN]

Trick is to keep the arrow in the turkey, helps them from fling away. 

[Gringo31]

I've killed 3 turkeys with my bow.  I've only used my 3 blade deer hunting broadheads and had decent success.  I have knocked feathers off twice where I didn't retrieve a bird.  And, two of the three I've killed have took a second arrow.  I refuse to buy the fancy broadheads because of cost.  I have trouble picking my spot when they are strutting.  I really have to concentrate on where exactly I'm aiming.

Not sure that helped you.  But if you are new to archery, get your equipment tuned properly and get consistent.

[Phantom Gobbler]

I used a fixed broadhead to take my first turkey with a bow last Fall.  It helped to have a ground blind in a very strategic location!
 

[mallard79]

Thanks!  Aren't mechanical heads illegal in Washington?  I gues I'll just get some 100grain broadheads.  What do you think of thunderheads?

[lokidog]

I got a turkey with a thunderhead about six years ago.  Side shot, broke one wing and through the lungs, didn't go anywhere.

[PA BEN]

Thanks!  Aren't mechanical heads illegal in Washington?  I gues I'll just get some 100grain broadheads.  What do you think of thunderheads?

There illegal for Big Game, not small Game.

[mallard79]

Great info!  Thanks!

[PA BEN]

Here's two links to shot placement
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=661127
http://www.wingsupply.com/shop/Scripts/article1.htm

[CoryTDF]

RAGE 2" expendables but only for the spring season. They are not legal for the fall season.

[KimberRich]

I'm new to archery myself.  What's a set of the expandable broadheads run?  They usually come in 3 packs right??

[Tom Tamer]

I'm new to archery myself.  What's a set of the expandable broadheads run?  They usually come in 3 packs right??

Three packs yes and they're about the same as a fixed $40

[Pathfinder101]

Ok, I have limited experience in this area, but here's why I ended my brief archery turkey career.
1st turkey:  Walking into a stand in the afternoon, a flock or turkey ran in front of me.  I knocked an arrow, drew, and waited.  A minute later a Tom appeared and, as though ordained by God himself, stopped in the center of my shooting lane, 15 yards in front of me.  I released and drilled him, then watched in horror as he hopped up and flew off.  Never to be seen again.  
The next morning I stalked another tom and found him at 10 yards, standing on a log.  I drew and drilled him, straight through the breast.  Arrow went straight through him, but didn't even knock him off the log.   He regained his footing and looked around.  I knocked another arrow and shot again, hitting him a little lower this time.  He flew off, across the Colville River, never again to be seen.
I went back to my Mom's house, put my bow in it's case, pulled my shotgun out from behind the seat of my truck, and ended my turkey bowhunting career.
I know people kill them with bows all the time, but I went back to shooting them in the face with a shotgun.