Archery Head Shot or Body Shot 🤯 Turkey Shot Placement BEAST Decap Broadhead

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Archery Head Shot or Body Shot 🤯 Turkey Shot Placement BEAST Decap Broadhead
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I'm going to give you compelling reasons why if you're a bow hunter, you should shoot turkeys
in the head by comparing the head size to the vitals of the turkey. Before I get into this,
I just want to show you what the inside of the cavity looks like. There you can see at the
widest part of the rib cage is only four inches wide. Back where the lungs and the heart sit is
only three inches wide. So there's actually not a lot of room in there when you're talking about
the major vitals of the turkey. We come over here and we look at the heart. Look at this.
This is a turkey heart. You can see it's only two inches wide by a two and a half inches long. It
is extremely small. And these little guys right here is a turkey lung. Every vital organ, including
the intestines, is laying down here next to its head. And you can see the size comparison. Check
this out. The actual turkey head is roughly about three inches wide all the way up. And at the
narrowest part, maybe two inches. Obviously the vitals are going to be stuck inside this cavity,
so you know it's going to be less than four inches. But when you're talking about the actual
vitals that kill a turkey right away that allows you to be able to recover it, it's heart, lungs,
liver sometimes. But if you hit them anywhere else without debilitating their mobility,
they're going to fly very far, hundreds of yards, or they will run and then hide in brush piles,
hide in the shadowy places, and makes them almost impossible to find. And I know many of you bow
hunters are experiencing that same thing that have done this. And if you aren't, you're lying.
I've shot one twice before. Perfect shot. He went off a ridge and flew 400 yards and died in the
And that is why back in 2011, I started head shooting turkeys. It was all or nothing. Now,
let's compare these two. You can see it's about three inches wide, the heart and lungs three
inches. And it obviously expands maybe closer to four inches. But when you're measuring the vitals
of a turkey, it's about a three inches all the way down, maybe a little bit less all the way up
to its head being two and a half inches there. When you're comparing the two, you'd be like,
well, hang on a second. The head is smaller than the vitals. But guys, you can see the head. You
can't see all of this inside a turkey. You're like, well, I know her name, a turkey. Baloney,
because when they're full strut, it is very deceiving where those vitals sit versus being
deflated. It is not easy to pinpoint where that heart is. If you're using the beast decapper,
which is the largest cutting surface area of any broadhead ever made with over nine inches of total
cutting surface area. But what matters most when it comes to forgiveness is the width. Now, this
bad boy is four inches wide by four inches wide. So what does that mean for you with the head?
That means a massive amount of room for air. If this turkey head is three inches wide on each
side of the feral, you have two inches of blade. So you have two inches of wiggle room on each
side of the head. Plus three is seven inches. Look at this. I can go all the way out to seven
inches, still kill the turkey, come all the way over here and still kill the turkey. Now again,
technically probably six and a half inches, because you're going to want enough blade to
cut the arteries, bone itself, depending on where you cut it to get to the spinal cord.
So let's just say conservatively, it's six and a half inches. That is huge. Now let's measure the
length of the cavity in terms of a vertical error in your shot. So if we go back here and we stick
this tape measure into the cavity, the guts come back to almost seven inches, which it comes outside
the ribs a little bit right here, but not much because right there is the anus of the turkey.
If you look at the length of the turkey head, it goes all the way down. The neck connects to the
here. And if we measure that, that is 11 inches in vertical distance that gives you a chance of
killing that turkey and having error in your shot up and down. So if we break this all down for shot
for shot three inches wide with this beast D cap gives you almost seven full inches of wiggle room
left and right and up and down is 11 inches. So it is very obvious that the most forgiving way to
shoot a turkey is in the head. And that's not even the ethical argument for shooting them in the
head. Because when you shoot them in the body, you will mortally wound that turkey because it
has to fly into roost in order for it to survive. Otherwise it will get eaten by coyotes. So if you
gut shoot a turkey, odds are you aren't going to find it. It will go a long ways and hide in brush
piles. That is almost impossible to see because if you look behind me, it's green, it's not in the
middle of winter. So imagine there's a dead turkey in there. Are you going to walk under every single
bush in a 500 yard radius and go through every briar patch? No, you can't. And even if you tried,
you still couldn't find them by shooting them in the body. Even with good shots, it is very likely
that you won't recover all the birds that you shoot. If you hit this thing anywhere in its head,
it is dead. Here is the spinal cord. Just barely Nick that that bird is flopping on the front half
is all the arteries that line up on the front half of its neck. We spent years studying NASA articles,
literally aviation, wing designs, maximize stability while reducing drag, and then built
this entire system, spine, everything, six fletch, all of that to be able to stabilize this arrow.
There's no reason any bow hunter in the world shouldn't be shooting turkeys in the head. I have
not mentioned it doesn't ruin any of the meat. So if you shoot a bird right through the breast,
you blow up and bloodshot half of your meat. If you shoot it through the hips, you blow up and
bloodshot all the hips. You hit it anywhere in the neck. All this meat is perfect. Not to mention,
it also bleeds out really fast and the meat tastes better. When you decapitate them,
all that blood leaves the body very fast, making the meat absolutely delicious. So I hope we got to
wait until these geese leave. Get out of here, geese. We're going to send one of these at you.
So guys, obviously you can tell I'm very pat. Are you, are you done? They're not impressed
with my program and there's a car. So guys, you can obviously see I'm very passionate about this
and that's because I've been head shooting gobblers since 2011. And I know that this is a
perfect system. We also made it very affordable. You get four broadheads, a broadhead case,
a practice point, a broadhead tool, and a six-fletched, hand-fletched, mind you,
beast decapitating arrow all for 89 bucks. Now come 2026, 2027, you know, prices could vary.
Once you try and love the beast decap system, we hope that you try our normal beast line for big
game, which we are really trying to grow the biggest broadhead company in the world. In order
for us to do that, we need your help with supporting us and buying those. I promise you guys,
give this beast decap system a try. You won't regret it.
