1.) DropzOfWild - 01/20/2021

14-15 years ago a gentleman introduced a prototype of a broad head that is tetherd to the nock end for turkey and small game. I was fortunate enough to get one of them and made a video utilizing it.... Is there anyone here today that still has one of these awesome little gadgets??? I'm curious to know who still may have this turkey tangler

2.) Swamp Fox - 01/21/2021

I never used one, Chris, but was in touch with the inventor when his product met the internet. He was taking a lot of grief about it and I had a little back-and-forth with him on back channels about how it could be presented better.

My recollection is that he was on the verge of selling the design to a larger entity (or pushing toward that), so at that point I bowed out.

3.) Swamp Fox - 01/21/2021

[QUOTE=DropzOfWild;62910] I was fortunate enough to get one of them and made a video utilizing it.... [/QUOTE]


:pop::pop::pop:


:wave:

4.) DParker - 01/21/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62911]I never used one, Chris, but was in touch with the inventor when his product met the internet. He was taking a lot of grief about it and I had a little back-and-forth with him on back channels about how it could be presented better.[/QUOTE]

I've never seen one up-close, nor can I find any of the videos of it in use still online...but from the old still-findable discussions on it I've seen I doubt that there was a better way to present it. Unless I'm missing something, it was an expensive, overly complicated gizmo that added a lot of weight to an arrow and wasn't (and still isn't) legal for use on turkey in most states due to the fact that the broadhead did not expand until AFTER exiting the animal (though I'm still not clear on whether or not that really was the case, nor how the design would make that happen). The descriptions of the promotional video the inventor released make it sound pretty cringe-worthy, with wounded animals (including turkeys, rabbits, et al) flopping around the ground after being anchored by a shot with an arrow that was the functional equivalent of a field point in terms of lethality.

5.) Swamp Fox - 01/21/2021

i definitely don't recall it not expanding until exit.

The key word being "recall" ...


My impression at the time was that it was lethal enough in competent hands, but that everyone was objecting to the snagging and snaring.



[QUOTE]You can't always get what you want .... [/QUOTE]

6.) bluecat - 01/21/2021

I'm trying to envision the whole thing and cannot. Is there a spool of line so you can reel the flying turkey in after it has been skewered and is still alive?

Adding weight to the nock-end of an arrow is um...not good.

7.) DParker - 01/21/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62915]I'm trying to envision the whole thing and cannot. Is there a spool of line so you can reel the flying turkey in after it has been skewered and is still alive?

Adding weight to the nock-end of an arrow is um...not good.[/QUOTE]

Here's are just a couple of the old things I found describing it.

[URL="https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/turkey-hunting-broadheads.html"]https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/turkey-hunting-broadheads.html[/URL]

[URL="https://www.archerytalk.com/threads/the-tangler-broadhead.657126/page-4"]https://www.archerytalk.com/threads/the-tangler-broadhead.657126/page-4[/URL]

8.) bluecat - 01/21/2021

Thanks, it [B]was[/B] kinda what I was thinking - basically a terrestrial bowfishing rig.

9.) Swamp Fox - 01/21/2021

[QUOTE=DParker;62916]Here's are just a couple of the old things I found describing it.

[URL="https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/turkey-hunting-broadheads.html"]https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/turkey-hunting-broadheads.html[/URL]

[URL="https://www.archerytalk.com/threads/the-tangler-broadhead.657126/page-4"]https://www.archerytalk.com/threads/the-tangler-broadhead.657126/page-4[/URL][/QUOTE]


Good times .... Good times ...


:-)

10.) Swamp Fox - 01/22/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62917]Thanks, it [B]was[/B] kinda what I was thinking - basically a terrestrial bowfishing rig.[/QUOTE]


I've heard that birds used to be dinosaurs ... Can you confirm?

11.) bluecat - 01/22/2021

Ancient astronaut theorists, say yes.

12.) Swamp Fox - 01/22/2021

LOL ...

Well, then it all starts to make sense.

13.) Swamp Fox - 01/23/2021

I saw a newish thread or two about the old String Tracker somewhere in the last year or so ... Apparently that thing is still around.



I wonder how long you have to wait before re-introducing an idea the internet mob buried six-feet deep?