This is not untypical of a Bow hunting turkeys. The hunter tends to shoot for the vitals in place of a head shot. As most animals shot in the body vitals they will go untill exspire happens. With turkeys they can get out of eye sight and hide/go down a hole before the exspiring happens and the hunter has alost bird on his hands. This is why they want to be on the bird ASAP...BT