While some turkey hunters prefer to hit the field each spring toting a scattergun, there are hunters like me who enjoy taking a spring gobbler with archery equipment. Just as shotshells have evolved year after year, so too have broadheads. A new batch of broadheads featuring updated blade configurations, mechanics and designs can only mean one thing … it is broadhead testing time.

Rhett Simmons, NWTF Palmetto Shooting Complex’s manager, hit the sporting clays courses with Weatherby’s Element to see how it performed.