First post but it is negative...

[bigbore442001]

At 6:45 AM this morning I shot at and hit a big boss eastern wild turkey gobbler. What I thought was a nice hit with the bow turned out to be a hit in the breast meat. I tracked him through hundreds of yards of thick fir stands and small vernal pools. I found one cut feather heading into some thick stuff behind a new housing development.

I keep telling myself I did all that I could to find him. In a strange way I suspect he may survive. He seemed to be unaffected by the arrow.
I did find the arrow and it is clean. No blood. No funky smell to it. It appears that the arrow skimmed him through the breast feathers.

I suppose I can't complain. We got three birds with archery so far this spring.

[TEXASFIVEGUN]

It tears me up when I do something like that, but if you did all you can do try and not let it get to you. It happens to all of us at sometime.

[spurrit]

Have you tried the "gobbler guillotine" broadheads? I'm thinkin' nothing would walk away from those!

[nobearsyet]

As sad (and aggravating) as losing a game animal is, it unfortunately does happen, maybe you'll get a shot at him again this season.

[bigbore442001]

I asked an archery dealer friend about the Gobbler Guillotine and he said that I should stick with what I am using now. They have some accuracy issues. He even sells them and he advised me to stick with the standard broadhead.