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sailordad:
i breasted a bird a couple years back,arrow went clean thru the breast meat.acted like a busted wing.tried to fly and couldnt
ran like hell though tracked him for about 10 yds from where i hit him to the tree line and gone,looked atthe arrow there was flesh,somefeather very little blood
but what you could tell was definatly white breast meat on the shaft.
i dont think i could have found that one if i wanted to ,he ran into a deep, and i mean deep briar patch that was thicker than hair on a gorillla.
i figured either the yotes got him that night since he couldnt fly or that"minor flesh wound" healed and he lived for another day.
tuff birds

FlintWalker:
Turkeys are tough critters.  I killed one once with a .22 bullet against it's breast bone. A couple had had their breasts cut in half by something and had healed up (broadhead or bullet maybe). And a bunch of them with lead shot in their bodies and legs.  If you don't get a perfect shot on one, they can be hard to put down.  Better luck next time. ;)

mullet:
 Yea, a buddy of mine stuck one four times and still didn't recover it. He was trailing it after the first shot and everytime he got near it he shot it again and it would flop and then run off.

armymedic.2:
i have had turkeys run off on me too, sorry to hear it.  they are tough!

Papa Matt:
WOW! 4 arrows and still moving?? I've heard my brother who hunts turkeys more than I do, tell of tales where one would take an arrow broadside from a compound and fly away, but I always thought he was full of it. This is madness. But I guess it would make sense, if that arrow has to penetrate a wall of thick 3/8" primary quills, it's going to loose a whole lotta steam.

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