String tracker for turkey?

[Bowtech Lefty]

I shot a gobbler two years ago with one. Check out the thread below. Also do a youtube search, there is a really good video on setting up a string tracker.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=451690

[Efren]

I shot a gobbler two years ago with one. Check out the thread below. Also do a youtube search, there is a really good video on setting up a string tracker.

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=451690

Cool video and congrats!

[Efren]

Ttt

[Bisch]

String tracker for turkey?

I shoot traditional, longbows mostly, and have shot a bunch of critters with a string tracker. Deer, pigs, and turkeys, and most of them thru the netting in the blind windows. If your bow is tuned well, the string tracker is an awesome tool. I will not turkey hunt without mine. The tracker has helped me recover several toms that I probably would not have without it! Turkeys have a very small vital area, and if they get out of sight after the shot, can be very difficult to find!

A String Tracker is not the end all. It may or may not save a bad shot. But it will definitely save good shots with little to no blood trail.

Bisch

[mikey2]

Shoot em in the noggin. You either miss or they are dead as a hammer.

[red-fin]

I have a lease on the Concho River just above Lake Ivy. Needless to say we have the turkeys. Been on lease for 23 years, lots of opportunities for turkeys with bow.

We use string trackers all the time on the birds, granted if the shot is perfect they will drop, for some reason that is not the case with me most of the time?! When the broad head, lots of different ones over the years, goes either thru or in it pulls feathers in with it plugging almost any chance of blood. I have also found that turkeys love to run and hide, they will hide under a blowdown, grass, whatever is available and you will never find them with no blood and no string. My lacy dog Chloe has become an expert turkey dog also. Also the string is kinda fun to follow and find your bird. Good luck on one tough bird!!

[ultrastealth]

Shoot em in the noggin. You either miss or they are dead as a hammer.

This

https://youtu.be/ijxBkOAmpMs

[Draco]

I've used one for close to 40 years now and they have made it a lot easier to find animals, and I have a good lacy blood dog. It's really important on turkeys and has helped me find several. I certainly recommend them.

[jeremy360]

Wonder if you could put snapline chalk in a bright color?

Would seem that would leave a pretty good trail as the string is being drug around..........

https://www.zoro.com/keson-marking-chalk-refill-orange-5-lb-105go/i/G0990963/?gdffi=047ada998cf641fa93e55ae8579df863&gdfms=4043BDB3661E46C0997172B95C9106D6&gclid=CPi1p42foMwCFQgaaQodAokPpg&gclsrc=aw.ds

Heck...could even be a glow in the dark powder or something super reflective?

[Draco]

The spool is wound so the string comes out of the middle and very easily. It doesn't affect arrow flight from my long bow out to around 25 yards. You can see the white string very easily.

[Efren]

I went ahead and ordered one for next weeks turkey hunt. Bought two spools. One to practice and one to hunt. Hopefully I can post a video.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Good luck! I look forward to the video!
I bought one years ago, but never used it. After reading through this thread, I was very surprised to hear all the positive feedback on them. I've killed close to 3 dozen turkeys with my bow, most with a recurve. The last dozen or so though I've shot with the Turkey Guillotine or Bullhead turkey broadheads. If your windage is good, you can have a wide error margin up and down by just aiming mid-neck. I've gotten some cool videos of heads flying off and some of the dangdest floppin' you ever saw shooting them this way... The old sayin, jumpin' round like a "chicken" with its head cut off, has a lot of truth in it assuming a chicken would behave like a turkey.

[brianlg31]

Where are you getting them?