Identify your target!

[BOFF]

The the person who shot your friend have permission to be hunting the land?


God Bless,
David B.

[Strutr]

This thread should be a sticky posted at the very top of this forum.

[fdh54turkeyshooter]

Yes he was a member and seasoned hunter and what are the odds that he would go to the same turkey on a 14000 acre lease in the middle of the week! But unfortunately for my friend he did and made a terrible careless mistake by not identifying his target, but by the hand of God he was kept from losing his sight, hearing or possibly his life as one of the pellets grazed his jugular throat area. His clothes were soaked in blood including his boots and he saw his life go before him, it was a call to his wife back in NC that I never thought I would have to make! I wasn't the one shot and that day took a couple years off my life and I don't like to hunt alone anymore. When I hear any shot it puts me to thinking. Just thought it would be a good subject to bring up just before the season.

[1iagobblergetter]

Last spring we had a turkey hunting fatality in my state. Three guys in a group hunting the same property evidently split up to hunt and one of them somehow shot the other. I believe he shot at sound(hunter calling) if I remember right.                                 
I had a guy shoot on an adjoining property and the next thing I knew he came over the ridge line and was giving my decoys a heavy stare down hand above eyes to keep the early morning sun out. I hurried up grabbed a reversible camo/orange stocking cap I have on purpose for such an occasion and put it on my gun barrel and held it straight up. He walked over kind of shook up and said he had shot at a turkey and thought he'd hit it and then seen my decoys and then thankfully my orange. Close as I ever want to be in getting shot.