shot placement on a turkey if shooting with a bow?

I keep hearing turkeys in the morning and with the lack of deer activity I might move and try to get a shot with my bow. Any one out there hunt turkeys with a bow that can give me some advice on shot placement?

 

The ideal shot is to hit them where the wing joins the body. Their lungs are up high against their backbone so you want to hit them high. If you hit them low, you will hit breast meat only and no vitals and they will likely escape. If you hit them high, you will either get the lungs/heart or break the backbone. That is for a side shot. For a facing away shot, you will still shoot high about where the neck/back intersects the wings once again trying to break the backbone and hit the lungs. If it is facing you, you will want to shoot at the top of the breast just above where the beard is on a gobbler or where the crop would be in the V of the breast.

 

very helpful, thanks

 

Yes very helpful thanks, can you use a regular broad head? I use grim reaper mechanicals

 

This drops them like a sack of potatoes and doesn't ruin the meat. Grim Reaper 1 3/8" razor tip

 

Thirdhandman. That is what I'm shooting so as long a my ain is true should be in good shape

 

I shot one this year with fixed blade Montec G5s. Complete pass through. Broke the wing going in, took out the lungs, and broke the upper thigh bone going out the other side. Any good broadhead should work if you hit them in the vitals.

 

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Ahhh the Texas heart shot.

 

Hit em high watch em die, hit em low watch em go.