It finally happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2W-zKnWc1o&feature=youtu.be
Congrats. Welcome to the big league. Firing warning shots to make it more challenging is admirable.
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Quote from: guesswho on May 01, 2019, 05:25:02 PM
Congrats. Welcome to the big league. Firing warning shots to make it more challenging is admirable.
Now that's funny! :turkey2:
beauleyse10 - I wish I could say I never missed during the last 46 years I've been hunting, but I can't.... :-[ Will you be putting that 2nd round in your shotgun next time?
Be well man
Now you should be good for another 18
ONLY if i had one more shell... :TooFunny: It's happen to all of use , welcome to the miss club....
Catch and release bro :funnyturkey:
A healthy dose of humility is a good thing.....unfortunately Turkeys humble me far too often.
Get rid of that camera. It just messed you up. LOL!
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I swore I'd never miss one, until I missed him..
It is not a miss guys.
It's a CONSERVATIONIST WARNING SHOT! :turkey2:
I'd say you shot no less than 2 feet over his head lol. A miss beats a wounded turkey any day and that's very likely what could've come from the 2nd shot IF you'd had a shell in there.
Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.
Quote from: dublelung on May 02, 2019, 10:05:22 AM
I'd say you shot no less than 2 feet over his head lol. A miss beats a wounded turkey any day and that's very likely what could've come from the 2nd shot IF you'd had a shell in there.
Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.
I have been hunting/killed a turkey for the past 18 years and never missed one. I have always kept the gun empty, slide open, until I set up to kill a bird. I then slide one in the action and close it. I have never needed an extra shot so I just stop putting it in there a few years back.
I've missed 1, in 25 years, but I can see how it could happen. The better you get at it, the closer the shots get. I've gone to the bow , many times these last few years, because I want even more of a challenge. I think with a bow, you have to use a decoy, or wait in ambush on a trail, which is sort of unethical, in my opinion, not saying I've never done it.
It happens I missed three in two seasons that stung a little
I'll say this much... You started off with confidence, not even loading more than one shell in a repeater... I have never had that type of confidence.
I missed a couple years back (for the first time in decades), and was glad to have the second shot... Shooting at the head in tall grass (shot over him), and he poked up for a second look... thought I missed that shot as well. What I though was him running through the grass was him flopping and falling into a small gully...
It is a haunting feeling of humility... I will remember that miss long after many that I did not.
lesson learned, you can not quick draw on a gobbler.
Quote from: guesswho on May 01, 2019, 05:25:02 PM
Congrats. Welcome to the big league. Firing warning shots to make it more challenging is admirable.
Heck, if missing gets you to the big league, then I must be a Hall-of-Famer! ..Perhaps even the G.O.A.T.! :fud::OGani: ;D
Old Goat!
Just returned from an 18 hr drive to which I hunted 6 days on public and heard 2 gobblers for a total of 5 times. Missed the only long beard I put eyes on in 6 days, at 40 yds in the broad open. My first time hunting Rios.
Humbling for sure.
I had a miss last year for the first time. I just sat there stunned for a while, lol.
Quote from: dublelung on May 02, 2019, 10:05:22 AM
Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.
I never stick a shell in the gun until I sit down to try and make a kill. To be honest having never missed a bird I have just been throwing one in the slide and easing it shut. I normally have two shells in my pocket when I leave the truck, just never needed a back up.
Quote from: beauleyse10 on May 06, 2019, 04:26:18 PM
Quote from: dublelung on May 02, 2019, 10:05:22 AM
Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.
I never stick a shell in the gun until I sit down to try and make a kill. To be honest having never missed a bird I have just been throwing one in the slide and easing it shut. I normally have two shells in my pocket when I leave the truck, just never needed a back up.
You already answered the question but I gotcha.
I guess it's kinda like a person who's never had a flat tire to not worry about carrying a spare tire. One day you're miles from home and have a flat then it hits you. ;D
Quote from: beauleyse10 on May 06, 2019, 04:26:18 PM
I never stick a shell in the gun until I sit down to try and make a kill. To be honest having never missed a bird I have just been throwing one in the slide and easing it shut. I normally have two shells in my pocket when I leave the truck, just never needed a back up.
Like I said, that is some confidence...
Hunting in mountain lion country (and walking around trying to sound like a turkey), my gun is loaded and ready as soon as I leave the truck.