Turkey tangler question

[BT]

Do you believe in the concept of adding a drag to keep the bird from flying away?.

What would you change about the tangler?.

Would you consider it if those things were changed?.

[jamaltwy]

sorry just not for me!! don't like the concept!!

I like to hunt and make good shots, but i see both sides but I make this my stand not to tangler up game might as well get bow bug or string thing that goes where your stabilizer goes!!!

[BT]

So you'd rather have a loss if something went wrong and you hit poorly?.
Not trying to start anything....just want to understand where you are

[mtshooter]

I have only seen the video on Youtube, so I really know nothing about it.

You do have my interest though :-)

[BT]

What I do like about it was in that video.
The first bird he shot (in Maine I believe) he hit in the leg and recovered it

[oldfarmsblueman]

I have taken turkeys only with a gun!But will give
you my 2 cents.A turkey is one tough dude .One
of my friends (great bow hunter)stuck one in the
late afternoon said the blood trail was like a deer.
He trailed it figuring it coulden't go on much longer.
He gave up and returned the next morning and tracked
it to a hill that it must have flown down and roosted.
Bottom line he never found it .
A friend of my Sons shot one from a treestand.The
turkey ran off with arrow in the bird.He said it can't
go far .For the next hour he could hear it getting further
and further away.By now its out banging around in a swamp.
He came down from his stand and did get the bird,but
was amazed on how tough they are.
I would say if you want that bird break a wing,leg or hook
him up to a drag :-*The feathers can eat up a lot or arrow,
and the breast and breast bone can do the same.The kill
zone is small and the birds VERY jumpy.And woods wise.
In a few seconds they can be gone to die on someone
Else's property or give a coyote a Thanksgiving dinner

[pastorfarley]

Skip mentioned the Tangler needed a better killing head and I agree. I wonder if it could be designed with an insert so you can screw in your head of choice.

Good killer, plus drag; still have the accuracy question becuse of the string moving around in the shaft though.

One of the disturbing aspects of the video is the bunny/bird struggling as it dies. Short range hunting brings with it the issue of having game die before your eyes. I have shot small game with high power hollow points at close range and they didn't move a bit from where they were shot, but they still breathe, twitch etc. Unless you apply massive destructive force nothing dies instantly, and a bow cannot do that.

So... I didn't vote yes or no, but give me a killing head with a drag that is accurate and keeps a woodchuck out of the hole and I will think on it again.

[BT]

pastorfarley said:

.....but give me a killing head with a drag that is accurate and keeps a woodchuck out of the hole and I will think on it again.

Coming soon

[jamaltwy]

I know your nottrying to flame anything but my point is i try as i may to make clean ethical kills,I learn best from game if i made a poor shot and it gets away hopefully lives but it makes me focus more cause i messed up!! I don't like the idea of tangling up the game trough brushI understand the concept of wounded game found and dipartched but what if it wasn't so wounded just grazed maybe i'm looking at it wrong and i might be... but it is just not for me!!

[BT]

Gotcha and I agree that the tangler is an awful product in as much as it has you using a head that I would use for fish.