[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Which describes your experience? See Poll.

[XDKingslayer]

I'm assuming you're talking about the broadhead? If so, I've never used it, but it's looks pretty nasty.

[Floppy_D]

Don't have don't want. The videos are pretty cool, but have you priced the things? I believe they break on impact as well.

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Here:

http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_903392_Gobbler_Guillotine.htm

http://www.bowhunting.net/shows/NWTF/2004/FBS-GobblerGuillotine.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznEM3WR8AU (good one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_1mFAi2SSQ&feature=related

There's a lot more videos...

[Dksimon]

wow I just watched the vidoe and that is crazy. Seems like a definite way to bag a turkey fo sure but I want to know the point? Why decapitate? Maybe I am missing something but I dont see the point.

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

The point is not to decapitate *necessarily* (although that is the ideal outcome). The point is to allow for a margin of error for a (relatively) inaccurate, short-ranged weapon - a bow/arrow, in making the hit, relative to trying to shoot a turkey in its small vital zone (or the neck) with a broadhead, which is the traditional method (vital zone). The idea is to bag the game and make it stop right there, and not fly off, by hitting the CNS and other vital parts of the neck - but principally the CNS. Turkeys are very tough birds, and many a turkey stuck in the vitals has flown off a hundred or more yards with the arrow in him, never to be found again. With a CNS hit, he ain't going nowheres. He's just gonna flop around right there. :) Additionally, even *hitting* the vital zone of a turkey is hard because it's hard to visualize and understand where the vital zone is exactly under all those fluffy feathers, particularly when they are all fluffed up a-struttin'. So think of the guillotine as the shotgun of the archery world - just allows a margin of error to make the hit on the very small neck area, and in so doing, hit the CNS for a DRT hit.

I have purchased the 4", 125 gr guillotine but not opened the package yet. If I can even FIND a turkey and get one with my shotgun for some meat this spring, I'm going after my second one with the guillotine and bow. Of course I'll be disappointed if they break - $50 for one turkey is not a good investment at all. BUT, I would speculate that if you MISS, they could hit a rock or limb or the hard ground and break, but if you HIT the turkey, they're gonna slow down enough before contacting the ground or another object that they'd stay in tact. That'd be my guess, or at least hope. So, just gotta make the hit! :)

[Jason_G]

You need another option:
"Heard of them, but indifferent"
Haven't tried them yet. Probably won't fork out the money for any. If I were given some, I'd give it a whirl.

Jason

[mgregg85]

if they made like a 12" guillotine I'd probably give it a shot. I'm pretty bad with the bow.

[GearHead_1]

This term is new to me.

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

"Heard of them, but indifferent"

That's pretty much the same as:

Don't have one, don't want one

:) Or maybe I should have said "Don't have one; don't plan to buy one." :p

[spectr17]

Get a Magnus Bullhead and skip the mess. Tougher, no parts to drop all over. No sheaths and you can practice with it.

K.I.S.S.

[redneck2]

When thinking of one working, you always assume the the blade stays horizontal. Since the arrow rotates in flight, the head may be vertical when it passes the bird. Maybe it's wide enough to make up the difference.

FWIW...I knew guys that used Bear broadheads with washers about the size of a dime between the shaft and the head. He washer would stop the arrow from passing thru and keep the bird from flying away or running off.