...but no upgrade boys. Had a family hunt over the past 3 days with friends and thier kids. All fairly new or first time turkey hunters so I was in my glory running around trying to fill tags. Long story short there was a total of 9 longbeards I brought close or into gun range but a combination of being pinned down, kids moving, a miss, and using a gun with no choke so the 40 yds needed to be 30, I was the only one who actually pulled the trigger and killed one.
Even the one I shot my buddy was the shooter with the bird strutting as close as 15 yds in front of him. I was off to the side 10 yds away and couldn't figure out why he wasn't shooting. When the bird finally figured out he had been had I raised my gun and shot him. My buddy never raised his gun because he had a bush in his way and the barrel was pointing out away from where the turkey was coming from. A little inexperience to not get the gun up and pointing in the right direction before the bird is right in front of you (especially when you have a big 30 inch duck barrel). After the all action which had not resulted in a kill I was not going to let this guy walk away without a big headache.
