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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: WARHORSE on March 29, 2008, 10:38:32 AM

Title: turkey guillotine
Post by: WARHORSE on March 29, 2008, 10:38:32 AM: turkey guillotines has anyone ever seen these and are they leagle in washington??
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Post by: boneaddict on March 29, 2008, 10:41:30 AM: Last I heard, they were illegal. Don't know why, but thats what I heard.
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Post by: WARHORSE on March 29, 2008, 10:46:02 AM: man they rock!!! i know that there is limits on how wide a blade can be for big game but i dont know about birds
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Post by: billythekidrock on March 29, 2008, 10:57:32 AM: I thought they were against the law as well. Anyone know for sure?
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Post by: WARHORSE on March 29, 2008, 11:14:32 AM: worked great on the neighbors cat!!
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Post by: ICEMAN on March 29, 2008, 12:52:44 PM: Saw a video running at Cabelas on these. Nasty. Sort of ruins your photo op' later for you and your bird... Also seemed a bit graphic for a constanly running tape at a retail mechandiser I thought...

Must be legal somewhere.....
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Post by: boneaddict on March 29, 2008, 01:04:09 PM: Same with the lumilocks or however you spell them.
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Post by: wackmaster on March 29, 2008, 07:16:57 PM: It is legal to use mechanical broadheads for turkeys I don't know about the guillotines.
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Post by: boneaddict on March 29, 2008, 07:33:28 PM: exactly.
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Post by: jackelope on March 29, 2008, 07:56:59 PM: i have never seen anything where it says it's illegal to use the guillotine. can somebody post a link or a cut and paste, because this p.o.s. computer will not download a pdf file for some reason, so i can't get the turkey pamphlet on-line.
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Post by: huntingnut on March 29, 2008, 08:29:38 PM: Just read throught the Spring turkey pamphlet and didn't see any mention of broadhead limits. I hope they are not illegal, I have a friend that is going to give me some to use. He bought thembut never killed anything with them. Would like to know before I get busted for having them. :dunno:
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Post by: jackelope on March 29, 2008, 08:34:51 PM: i talked to one of the federal fish cops up in the little p/o refuge last year who's son was hunting with them...i don't think they are illegal at all.
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Post by: WARHORSE on March 29, 2008, 09:26:05 PM: yeah i have never seen anything that outlawed them for birds. i am gonna give them a shot. bone do you mean luminock? the lighted nock?
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Post by: bankwalker on March 29, 2008, 10:49:40 PM: Quote from: jackelope on March 29, 2008, 07:56:59 PM
i have never seen anything where it says it's illegal to use the guillotine. can somebody post a link or a cut and paste, because this p.o.s. computer will not download a pdf file for some reason, so i can't get the turkey pamphlet on-line.

i have a set of them...i was told by a couple different archery shops they were legal.

and now you guys have to go and start this...grrr lol now i guess i need to double check and check again

they fly great btw, and im decently accurate with them out to 30yds
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Post by: huntingnut on March 30, 2008, 08:57:47 PM: do they shot the same as field points? I was curious as how to sight them in.
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Post by: mossback91 on March 31, 2008, 12:31:49 AM: Probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen. :whoo:
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on March 31, 2008, 09:08:40 AM: Letter I sent to a Capt. for F&G:

"Wondering if you are familure with Archery equipment known as theTurkey Guillotine? If not, it is kinda like a broad head and you shoot it for turkey. Their is debate between meand a few guys on wether this is legal archery equipment. So is the Turkey Guillotine legal equipment in the state ofWashington?

Thanks,

Michelle N."

Response I received:

"Yes. The broadhead restrictions apply to big game only,not small game or birds."
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Post by: huntingnut on March 31, 2008, 09:34:24 AM: Thanks Michelle, now if I can only get him to bring them to me and figure out how to sight them in it will be heads a flying. :IBCOOL:
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Post by: Outfitter on March 31, 2008, 09:48:09 AM: We stopped letting our hunters use them this year. We have had to many lost turkeys. If they don't take there head off it won't kill them and when you throw the excitment of the turkey coming in ,not many hunters can make the shot.
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Post by: bankwalker on March 31, 2008, 04:22:59 PM: Quote from: huntingnut on March 30, 2008, 08:57:47 PM
do they shot the same as field points? I was curious as how to sight them in.

i sighted them in just like i do every other broadhead...

and no they do not fly like a fieldpoint. they fly more like shooting a flu flu out of a recurve imo...but then again i am shooting them out of a recurve :IBCOOL: NOW anyway sence i sold my compound lol
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Post by: huntingnut on March 31, 2008, 05:11:09 PM: I was just curious if you shot them with blades in and at what. You would think that the blades would break if you shot them into a bag or block. Do they come with replacement blades to put in after sighting them in? I will probably just use my broadheads until I get more expeirence hunting turkeys but they look like fun.
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Post by: bankwalker on March 31, 2008, 06:27:45 PM: Quote from: huntingnut on March 31, 2008, 05:11:09 PM
I was just curious if you shot them with blades in and at what. You would think that the blades would break if you shot them into a bag or block. Do they come with replacement blades to put in after sighting them in? I will probably just use my broadheads until I get more expeirence hunting turkeys but they look like fun.

i just use one of the heads as a practice. they come in a pack of 3.

ive been shooting them into a hay bail, and it hasnt damaged them blades to much. one is bent though. its doing a number on the hay though :IBCOOL:

they do fly alot better then i figured they would. but i have a feeling i wont be hunting with them. i'd much rather use a normal broadhead and just go for a bodie shot instead of head shots. sence im not really that accurate with them to be confident for head shots.
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Post by: jackelope on March 31, 2008, 09:56:24 PM: take what outfitter said to heart. thats good stuff. no sense at all in wounding turkeys...way too much risk there.
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Post by: bankwalker on April 01, 2008, 03:32:47 PM: yeah thats the big reasoning behind me not wanting to use the turkey guillotine

they seemed like the perfect answer imo, but after shooting them i dont think ill be making those awesome headshots. a bodie shot seem aLOT better now