You know how you tell someone who missed "show me someone who's never missed a turkey, I'll show you someone who hasn't killed many" today I joined that group. Boy oh boy does it ever suck! I been watching 2 birds for about 3 weeks now getting a pattern and a time. This morning I hunted until 8 then rushed over to my spot sat down at 835 made a yelp with my mouth call BAM they both gobbled waited 5 minutes same thing. I put the calls away and waited here they came 45 yards starin at my decoy, guess they didn't like her because they started a diagonal line to my left, when they got to what I thought was 40 I settled the sights and squeezed. Sucker took a step about the same time. We all know how that story ends, a lonely disgruntled walk back to the truck. Oh well fun hunt think I will be takin the 12 ga from now on though. That little bit of extra yardage woulda ended this story differently....... Maybe
Justin
If you haven't missed you haven't shot at many! I get a kick out of the guys that say "how the heck can you miss with a shotgun"? ;D
Clean missing one is still better than rolling one and not finding him...unfortunately I am speaking from experience...
I missed a bunch with my 20 ga. Since I started using my 12ga with 3.5" I don't miss much anymore. ;D "much" :TooFunny:
You know what? I find that statment to be a little discourteous and closed minded and more than just a little self-righteous. I just read an article in the latest issue of PA Game and Fish Magazine, where the well known and apparently "respected" author of the article "Turning Heads" typed litterally the exact same thing. Well. I got some news for ya. I have never onced missed a turkey...ever. I have been hunting them for going on 30 years now and I am over the century mark on spring gobblers. To make a statement like that takes some kind of balls man, I gotta tell you. Have I been lucky so far? Maybe. I like to think of it more as being skilled and knowledgable and knowing where, how and more importantly when to shoot.
Quote from: Hookhunter on April 16, 2012, 01:37:03 PM
You know how you tell someone who missed "show me someone who's never missed a turkey, I'll show you someone who hasn't killed many"
Sorry about the miss.
My saying is "show me someone who has missed as many turkey's as I have, I'll show you someone I'd like to turkey hunt with"
Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 16, 2012, 02:18:31 PM
You know what? I find that statment to be a little discourteous and closed minded and more than just a little self-righteous. I just read an article in the latest issue of PA Game and Fish Magazine, where the well known and apparently "respected" author of the article "Turning Heads" typed litterally the exact same thing. Well. I got some news for ya. I have never onced missed a turkey...ever. I have been hunting them for going on 30 years now and I am over the century mark on spring gobblers. To make a statement like that takes some kind of balls man, I gotta tell you. Have I been lucky so far? Maybe. I like to think of it more as being skilled and knowledgable and knowing where, how and more importantly when to shoot.
Get off the soap box man. The guy missed and it sucks. No sense in making yourself look better at his expense. We can't all be perfect.
Quote from: coyotetrpr on April 16, 2012, 02:23:24 PM
Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 16, 2012, 02:18:31 PM
You know what? I find that statment to be a little discourteous and closed minded and more than just a little self-righteous. I just read an article in the latest issue of PA Game and Fish Magazine, where the well known and apparently "respected" author of the article "Turning Heads" typed litterally the exact same thing. Well. I got some news for ya. I have never onced missed a turkey...ever. I have been hunting them for going on 30 years now and I am over the century mark on spring gobblers. To make a statement like that takes some kind of balls man, I gotta tell you. Have I been lucky so far? Maybe. I like to think of it more as being skilled and knowledgable and knowing where, how and more importantly when to shoot.
Get off the soap box man. The guy missed and it sucks. No sense in making yourself look better at his expense. We can't all be perfect.
Not on ANY soap box pal. You're right! It absolutely does suck to miss. I've been there on many occasions when it happened. It just hasen't happened to me. Will it? It might, but it just hasn't happened yet. I am also a firm believer that Murphy is sitting right over your shoulder whenever we go out in the woods so I am not above thinking it can't or wont happen to me. He quoted something that someone said and I responded. It wasn't directed at him or to flame him in any way. You apparently missed that in the first 4 sentences of my post though? I was flaming the so called expert and author that wrote the article NOT the OP. I feel for him and I know it happens. But for the author of the article I mentioned to say something like that is just plain rediculous.
It happens, maybe you didn't get any in him and he'll live.
Good Luck next time.
Haha easy guys no big thing. Just thought everyone would enjoy a story that's all. However,I too take pride in knowing when to shoot and how far etc... Guess I shoulda mentioned that booger was in a wide open field lol.... That actually makes it even funnier right? Oh well plenty of time left, today is only 2nd day of my season. Look out birds here I come :fud: :OGani:
Justin
Justin
Your right that is a terrible feeling! I hunted the same bird (became a sick obsession) last year for 17 straight morning (not exaggerating) and on the 5th or 6th day I missed him at around 40 yards. Talk about sick. We never killed the bird we now call "The Boston Gobbler" after the property we hunted him on. I can also remember a few years back wading through water so deep only my head and gun stayed above water (had to pray I didnt go under) then I millitary crawled the thick grass. I peaked my head up when I edged close to a field I knew two gobblers were in (I had gotten ahead of where they were headed). I peaked my head up and called and they were coming. I tried to get on my butt and akwardly took aim (not a good excuse) but you know the story I missed. bummer - The side story is I watched that bird fly into a patch of timber my brother way in. 15 minutes after that bird had been shot at he was gobbling and looking for an agressive calling hen (my brother) and he died that day. His luck ran out!
Quote from: Hookhunter on April 16, 2012, 02:41:30 PM
Haha easy guys no big thing. Just thought everyone would enjoy a story that's all. However,I too take pride in knowing when to shoot and how far etc... Guess I shoulda mentioned that booger was in a wide open field lol.... That actually makes it even funnier right? Oh well plenty of time left, today is only 2nd day of my season. Look out birds here I come :fud: :OGani:
Justin
Justin, sorry if you or anybody else took my post the wrong way. I absolutley was not flaming you or trying to belittle you in any way. The phrase you used, which is a common phrase among some hunters, was in a very recent article in a popular hunting and fishing mag and it just plain got my hackles up to read it. To me if you miss, oh well. It happens, but it does not mean that you haven't hunted long enough or are inexperienced or haven't killed many birds. The author is flat wrong in what he wrote and his statment is what i was referencing, NOT YOURS. Again my bad if my post offended you or anyone else but I gotta call em as I see em you know?
Your turkey hunt long enough and hard enough and your gonna miss. Bout the time you think it aint gonna happen its gonna. So ya I would say 99% of the time the saying about hunting and eventually missing is true. Its actually the opposite of "self righteous". Getting all excited about that saying might be a little self consumed though...
The quote just means if you hunt long enough you will miss???
Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 16, 2012, 02:53:05 PM
Quote from: Hookhunter on April 16, 2012, 02:41:30 PM
Haha easy guys no big thing. Just thought everyone would enjoy a story that's all. However,I too take pride in knowing when to shoot and how far etc... Guess I shoulda mentioned that booger was in a wide open field lol.... That actually makes it even funnier right? Oh well plenty of time left, today is only 2nd day of my season. Look out birds here I come :fud: :OGani:
Justin
Justin, sorry if you or anybody else took my post the wrong way. I absolutley was not flaming you or trying to belittle you in any way. The phrase you used, which is a common phrase among some hunters, was in a very recent article in a popular hunting and fishing mag and it just plain got my hackles up to read it. To me if you miss, oh well. It happens, but it does not mean that you haven't hunted long enough or are inexperienced or haven't killed many birds. The author is flat wrong in what he wrote and his statment is what i was referencing, NOT YOURS. Again my bad if my post offended you or anyone else but I gotta call em as I see em you know?
No it means exactly what it says. "Show me a person who hasn't missed a turkey and I'll show you someone who hasn't killed many." That menas exactly what it says. It means if you haven't ever missed you must be doing something wrong to not have taken too many shots at birds. It doesn't mean "Hey, you missed. It happens to the best of us." The author of the article I referenced typed that EXACT STATEMENT. It is contrite and self-rghteous. period. It assumes that because you've never missed a bird you must be a new, inexperienced, or just plain bad hunter, or...just the unluckiest dude in the woods when you drop the hammer. I do not claim to be perfect. Far from it but I have been blessed by having never missed a shot at a turkey in 30 years. I also do not claim for one second that it can't or won't ever happen to me, but I try to do everything in my power to make sure it won't. Does that make me better than the op? Hell no it doesn't! I am no better than anyone else on this forum or on this planet for that matter. Again...been there when it happened, and trully feel for anybody that it happens to. It just hasn't happened to me...yet???
The statement is "self righteous" ? I don't think so!!!!
Sorry to hear about your miss, but look at it like catch and release ::)
Quote from: runngun on April 16, 2012, 03:38:00 PM
The statement is "self righteous" ? I don't think so!!!!
Ok since self righteous doesn't fit for you, how about presumptuous?
MIGHTY JOE I bet there all head shots too. Sounds like turkeyburger. LOL
I know a guy that got to razzing someone he was hunting with about missing a deer with buckshot (at the time; D had killed about 20 and never missed). His dad told him he might be in the same boat one day and withall the over-confidence of youth kept razzing. Well, long story short..he missed 3 different deer the next morning. Not 3 running together..3 seperate occasions at 3 different bucks. It happens....
Mightyjoe,
No harm no foul, I see where you are comin from. I will say tho just for the record nobody has ever missed.... Until they do. Lol
Justin
Quote from: BigGobbler on April 16, 2012, 04:45:13 PM
MIGHTY JOE I bet there all head shots too. Sounds like turkeyburger. LOL
Head shots, and a couple low neck/crop shots yes. And, you wana watch whom you call a liar...that passive/aggressive way you just did it or not. You don't know me from Adam. Now here's what "amuses" me about internet "hunters". You read my post see where I make a statement. Never mind that it wasn't even directed at the OP, but a supposed expert and author that wrote an article in a magazine and all you have better to do with your time is heckle? Get a life and maybe some better reading skills? Good thing about all this? I have the filled tags from 7 states and not one thing to prove to you chumps.
Quote from: Hookhunter on April 16, 2012, 05:09:18 PM
Mightyjoe,
No harm no foul, I see where you are comin from. I will say tho just for the record nobody has ever missed.... Until they do. Lol
Justin
Justin, I could not agree more! Just because I have never missed a bird, does not mean it won't or can't happen right? lol. I've been chasing turkeys a long time...before it was "popular". I know first hand what can and does happen when you pull the trigger. What does get my goat though are the internet ravens so eager to discount one man's claim or accomplishment. They see something like my never missing a bird yet and their own insecurities just get the better of them. It isn't like I haven't ever missed while hunting other game either! I archery hunt more than just about anything else and believe me, I have had my share of whiffs! Antways. Good luck next time out, shake off that miss and remember... Aim small. Miss small. lol
Joe, "Chumps" huh??? Ain't that something to say.
My buddy missed one this morning. It happens sometimes.
I've never missed. My shot always hits the bird, a tree or the ground.... :toothy9:
I have missed my share...and unforunately I'm afraid one day it will prolly happen again. It sucks. I missed 5 in a row one season. Luckily at the time we had a good many and I was able to connect with one before season went out. Now days they are WAY to hard to come by to miss, nothing makes me sickier.. And deer, oh boy I don't even want to talk about how many deer I've missed over the years :TooFunny:
I was in a boat with my hunting partner and his uncle one day coming back from a hunt where I had missed. His Uncle was making fun of me and then said he had never missed a turkey and never killed a Jake. I pulled out a few feathers from the back of the vest, held them in the air and mumbled some serious hoodoo voodoo crap and then rubbed them on his gun and let them go. I told him the turkey Gods would now make him pay. Within a week he had missed a bird and killed a Jake. Now I'm not allowed to touch his gun, even when we just sight them in before season.
Some of my best hunts involve a miss.
The old man. Former Marine, combat vet of the Korean War many times over, the best woodsman and one of the best shots I know never missed a turkey in all the years I've hunted with him. He's 77 now and. Doesn't get around like he used to. Last year I took him out the spring opener to put him on a bird for his birthday that was the next day. We had 4 jakes and a long beard 30 yards in front of us. He leveled down on the boss and let one rip, blowing a 2" sapling about 10 yards infront of him to pieces. No joke, looked like a grenade went off! The gobbler ducked, ran a few steps and took off down the hill. The jakes ran around like they had no clue what happened and ole' "shakey jake" as he is now know in circles...behind his back of course, got so flustered that he missed high 2 more times. We were laughing at him so hard, we didn't notice him throw one last round in the open chamber and crush the one jake that was stupid enough to ran right at us. He lost both shirt tails that day. He got up and stated simply "Third times a charm my $%%!!"
Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 16, 2012, 05:15:54 PM
Quote from: BigGobbler on April 16, 2012, 04:45:13 PM
MIGHTY JOE I bet there all head shots too. Sounds like turkeyburger. LOL
Head shots, and a couple low neck/crop shots yes. And, you wana watch whom you call a liar...that passive/aggressive way you just did it or not. You don't know me from Adam. Now here's what "amuses" me about internet "hunters". You read my post see where I make a statement. Never mind that it wasn't even directed at the OP, but a supposed expert and author that wrote an article in a magazine and all you have better to do with your time is heckle? Get a life and maybe some better reading skills? Good thing about all this? I have the filled tags from 7 states and not one thing to prove to you chumps.
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LOL Touchy are we. No maybe You should read my post again I never called you a liar just saying, I'm done LOL
Quote from: mightyjoeyoung on April 16, 2012, 07:31:25 PM
The old man. Former Marine, combat vet of the Korean War many times over, the best woodsman and one of the best shots I know never missed a turkey in all the years I've hunted with him. He's 77 now and. Doesn't get around like he used to. Last year I took him out the spring opener to put him on a bird for his birthday that was the next day. We had 4 jakes and a long beard 30 yards in front of us. He leveled down on the boss and let one rip, blowing a 2" sapling about 10 yards infront of him to pieces. No joke, looked like a grenade went off! The gobbler ducked, ran a few steps and took off down the hill. The jakes ran around like they had no clue what happened and ole' "shakey jake" as he is now know in circles...behind his back of course, got so flustered that he missed high 2 more times. We were laughing at him so hard, we didn't notice him throw one last round in the open chamber and crush the one jake that was stupid enough to ran right at us. He lost both shirt tails that day. He got up and stated simply "Third times a charm my $%%!!"
LMBO