Will shooting disturb turkeys

[xarcher]

I would not obsess over what it does to the spooked birds.  On one occasion, I dropped a long beard and sat tight cause I knew there were others close by.  5 minutes later or so, I purred in a second one and he came running in and bowed up over the dead one.  He got it too (legal at the time in SC).  On another occasion, my partner missed one that jumped and glided off to the other side of the field.  We watched him for 1/2 hour or so and coaxed him back in.  No miss this time. 

[Txag12]

I think sometimes we give them more credit then necessary....they're adaptable creatures but also get spooked by all kinda things so it's not to abnormal for them to get scared. Buddy and I shot 4 seperate birds in one day sitting at a single live oak before, one first thing in the morning, another a hour later, one mid afternoon, and one that evening. Although that's definitely way off from the norm to do, it does show that I don't think shooting bothers them all that much as we may play it up in our heads