It is NOT the broadhead, it is the placement of the broadhead! Any broadhead will kill a turkey you don't need ANY one special!

 

269 Swhacker

 

Rocket hammerhead xt 2 inch

 

Grim Reaper Whitetail Special or Carni-four for body shots. Magnus Bullhead for head shots

 

Vortex 2.75 cut one or the 3inch plus cut one.
You can miss the vitals and those heads cut and break so much you can still run it down and choke it to death or look like a fool trying to anyway.

 

Turkeys are harder to get penetration on than a moose. With that said a broadhead should be COC, long and wide. I know the wide will impede penetration, but they're also hard to kill with a small kill zone.

Very hard to beat a 160 Snuffer. But they're also hard to find. I like three blades over 2, becasue there's the odd chance that a 2 blade could go parallel to a bone. VPA's are narrower than a Snuffer. Centuar also has those very wide two blades.

But all that said the most important thing is to use a String Tracker.

Bowmania

 

Big mechanicals, and get familiar with where a turkeys vitals actually are.

 

Rocky Mountain Supreme 4 blade put them down!

 

two blade 125 gr Magnus stinger, same as my deer set up

 

Big mech cut is your best bet. I prefer Spitfire XXX or a grim reaper whitetail special.

 

WASP Jakhammer

 

Thanks everyone! This is extremely helpful!

 

Whatever fixed or mechanical broadhead you like will do it. The key is putting the arrow through the kill zone about the size of a tennis ball, or breaking the spine. A lot of people like wide cut mechanicals for a little better chance of cutting through vitals. I've killed them with NAP Gobbler Getters (basically a round nosed Spitfire), old Thunderhead 125's and old Muzzy Phantom 4-blade 125's. I've never had any penetration problems at all. In fact, I've lost arrows under thick brush after passthroughs. If you don't hit vitals/spine, your chances of recovery are poor. So far, I've never lost one, but I've passed on any shot that wasn't perfect. I've never tried the head looping broadheads, because I usually don't hunt with a blind. Every bird I've killed has standing still, in full strut.

 

I’m shooting Grim Reaper Whitetail Extreme heads for turkey this season. Big ol’ 4 blade!

 

A fixed blade head. Whatever flies good and works for deer and pigs with work for a turkey. I think it is a good idea to mount a broadhead stopper on your arrow to prevent a pass thru. Turkeys will run after you shoot them. It is harder to flee when you are dragging an arrow.

 

I've used the NAP gobbler getters (1-3/4" 3-blade expandable), and the NAP XXX (2" 3-blade expandable) and they worked pretty good. I like the wider cutting diameter of the expandables over the 3-blade fixed heads I shoot at deer, since the property I have permission on isn't very big, I don't want turkeys to run very far. So far the wide expandables have resulted in short distances traveled before expiring. They have been working good for me so far.

 

I have several with Magnus 2 blade COC. It's all about placement. I am going to kill one this season with a Tim Wells Headhunter.

 

125 gr. Sevr. Gobbler arrowed Monday morning. 6 yard shot. Wing butt placement.
30 yard recovery.
Head, blades perfect condition. Still factory SHARP! Ready for next Monday, 2nd week.

 

At one point I got some nap gobbler getters but never got to use them.

 

150 grain 3” Swhacker. Here is the exit hole.

 

No ones talking about the gobbler guillotines...