Ahh Crap..what a morning.

[camoman1]

Long story, so I will summarize as best I can haha!

Dad and I split up and sat in different places this morning. Him along the field, and me in the woods on a ridge. The tom was between us. We were separated by a few hundred yards.

I saw the birds fly into the field and heard the tom make his way towards my ol man. I was waiting to hear a shot.....then finally *Booom*. I said to myself, 'cool he got him''. I stood up to walk out and congratulate dad...*Booom*...and I see pop chasing a bird across the field.

Crap, so i grab my BOW and start bookin out to join the chase. We ended up chasing this tom around in a creek bottom in the middle of a field for about 15 min. Dad uses his last 3 shells....all misses. I got one arrow with me (i didnt grab my quiver when I went to join the chase), I finally get an open shot at the bird, hes at a fast walk, but its wide open. Well I misjuged the distance and saw the arrow bury in the dirt under him. So here we are, no shells, no arrows, and a wounded but very much alive turkey.

I run back to my truck and grab my GUN and some more shells for dad. When I get back, dad told me the tom ran across the field and flew across the road. We tried for an hour to find some sign of him...but found none. Although dad said he fell like a ton of bricks when he first shot him....the bird didnt appear to be to hurt badly. Hopefully he makes it.

Makes me sick to think that we maybe we just didnt find him...but we did all we could. Hopefully the next few days are better haha

[PotashRLS]

Must be something about the ole' boys. My Dad did a similar thing a couple years ago. "I only needs 3 shells", or so he used to say :wacko:. He rolled a bird (shooting too far) and ended up emptying the gun as it flew away. We looked a long time and never found any sign of that bird either. We still remind him of that one once in a while:clown:

Regardless, that is really too bad. Not all hunting memories and stories have a happy ending. Those memories are just as important in the years to come. Make sure he gets back in the saddle and keeps hunting. Good luck to you guys.

[ChrisSeb53]

sometimes things go that way.. you feel terrible about it but i think you should feel good about doing everything you could to try and get him even though it didn't work out... it sucks yeah.. but these things do happen... good luck!

[camoman1]

Shooting too far was exactly what happened here. I was giving dad some ribbing about it all morning...he's a good sport, and I know he would give me a hard time if it were me who was shootin up the woods instead.

I grabbed his gun barrel later in the morning, he says '' what ya doing?'' I said " just seeing if that sucker cooled down yet..."":D

Hes already back out there, he is taking our buddies young son out for a hunt this afternoon.

[camoman1]

Shooting too far was exactly what happened here. I was giving dad some ribbing about it all morning...he's a good sport, and I know he would give me a hard time if it were me who was shootin up the woods instead.

I grabbed his gun barrel later in the morning, he says '' what ya doing?'' I said " just seeing if that sucker cooled down yet..."":D

Hes already back out there, taking our buddies young son on a hunt this afternoon.

[Jorden]

Thats happend to my dad before too. He shot and it dropped in its tracks and as he was walking up to it, it got up and ran away. Those suckers are pretty tough.

[Flintlock1776]

Sorry to hear about that. But, that is why the call it hunting and not shopping! Better luck next time!