Mrs.............

[Lawdwaz]

Seems a few good friends (two honorable member here) have missed in the past few days, WTH are you guys thinking? 

 

Damn........you gotta keep your heads in the game! 

 

I've BTDT though, one time on the very last day I flubbed a absolute gimme shot at a dandy long beard.  What a sicking feeling.

 

Now all the rest of you that read this have been jinxed.......LOL.

 

Anymore "Mrs" we want to talk about?? 

Edited May 27, 2016 by Lawdwaz

[wooly]

I wonder if we have a mutual friend....

 

I was talking to one guy who probably took a pop at one a little farther than he should have. Hit the damn bird and watched him bounce 10ft in the air 3x's like a basketball before landing in a blowdown.

Three other birds gathered around to watch him die.

 

When the guy crawled out of his blind, FOUR birds took to the air.

 

The guy was pretty determined to find the one he hit with so much blood on the ground so he searched for well over an hour.

 

He went back to the blind to collect his thoughts and got back on the trail of the bird he suspected he hit. A few hundred yards downhill, he discovered a bird laying on the ground out in the wide open timber. To him it looked like a nesting hen the way it was laying there so he held his fire on a follow up shot since he couldn't see it's head. When he got closer to the bird it picked it's head up and took to the air again straight through a set of posted signs he can't get access to the other side of. When the guy went to look where the bird was laying, he found spots of blood that proved indeed it was the same bird he shot almost 2 hours before.

 

Poor guy was ready to give up hunting over it till I talked him out of it!

 

 

[Lawdwaz]

I wonder if we have a mutual friend....

 

I was talking to one guy who probably took a pop at one a little farther than he should have. Hit the damn bird and watched him bounce 10ft in the air 3x's like a basketball before landing in a blowdown.

Three other birds gathered around to watch him die.

 

When the guy crawled out of his blind, FOUR birds took to the air.

 

The guy was pretty determined to find the one he hit with so much blood on the ground so he searched for well over an hour.

 

He went back to the blind to collect his thoughts and got back on the trail of the bird he suspected he hit. A few hundred yards downhill, he discovered a bird laying on the ground out in the wide open timber. To him it looked like a nesting hen the way it was laying there so he held his fire on a follow up shot since he couldn't see it's head. When he got closer to the bird it picked it's head up and took to the air again straight through a set of posted signs he can't get access to the other side of. When the guy went to look where the bird was laying, he found spots of blood that proved indeed it was the same bird he shot almost 2 hours before.

 

Poor guy was ready to give up hunting over it till I talked him out of it!

 

OMG!  What a tale of woe........

 

We can add him to the list!!

 

[Dinsdale]

What's a miss?

 

Never done such a thing.

[letinmfly]

Didn't have a single bird to work all season to even account for a shot!!  I could have lived with a miss this season!! 

[philoshop]

I had a swing & a Mrs once. Does that count?

Damn, I'm an awful person.

[turkeyfeathers]

I haven't even needed to stuff any ammo in my turkey thumper this year so no misses.......yet.  But hunting the next 4 days so I've got time for failure. The next 3 with my daughter. I'd really laugh if she hammers one and I botch up a double on these 4 jakes we've been encountering.

[Pygmy]

OMG!  What a tale of woe........

 

We can add him to the list!!

Poor wretched soul !!!

[Lawdwaz]

Poor wretched soul !!!

 

Prolly just a newbie hunter and that'd be MORE than acceptable. 

 

Now if THAT was an experienced, seasoned veteran hunter with many (like 40 something) seasons, living in supremo turkey country, with the eye of an eagle and the ice cold blood of a stone cold killer coursing through his veins.........I'd only give him a pass If he was a friend.

 

 

 

[Pygmy]

I heard about another guy who had a similar but not quite so traumatic experience..

He was hunting with a very dear old friend who has tagged out and had located a gobbler...

They sat until nearly 8:00 AM and heard NADA, when finally a gobbler answered up...

They set up and the dear old friend was doing the calling, all our hero had to do was sit there and shoot the damn turkey..

It was a textbook call up...The gobbler stepped out at 30 yards and posed...

BANG !! The shot went over the gobbler's head and the bird flushed totally unscathed, at least leaving no indication of being hit...Perhaps a result of holding on the HEAD rather than lower on the neck with the new tight patterning Longbeard XRs..

The dear old friend who had located the bird and had done the calling, commented, " How the hell do you drop those ducks and geese and crows flying at 50 MPH, and miss that great big gobbler standing there flatfooted at 30 yards ??"

Actually I consider quite a feat..One poster on here not too long ago stated that it was pretty HARD to miss a turkey...

[Lawdwaz]

Not soon to be named I'm sure. 

 

I can "picture" him though.

[Doewhacker]

I knew two handsome guys that missed last week after working the birds for over two hours, they left the field feeling deflated. Well the one guy pulled his shot after the first guy missed because he felt bad.

They were half a heartbeat away from taking some pigeons afterwards, but the anger subsided.

Funny thing was the one guy remembered he had a rangefinder after Turkeyfeathers mentioned it might be a good idea in a PM. I guess he should have used it, at least the two hunters still have their good looks.

Edited May 28, 2016 by Doewhacker

[WNY Bowhunter]

I threw up an airball at a gobbler on Mother's Day. I hate missing...

[grampy]

I'd prefer to keep stories about the Mrs. and myself, contained to the one or two, who witnessed the transgressions first hand. It wasn't pretty.