Turkey hunter found dead by black farmer....
This farmer was out checking his field when he spotted a turkey dA'coy down at one end of the field...he drove up on the dA'coy and noticed this fellow sitting against a tree back in the bushes...the fellow didn't move or show any signs of moving.
The black guy drove off..
The hunters dad was at their truck when the farmer drove back to it.
He pulled up and asked the man...."You got's any body down they're a hunt'n" the guys dad replied "Yes my son"...."You betta get's down they'a and check on him cause yo son is dead".
In total frantic the father asked "Where's he at ?"....."He'z down that field ta the right sitt'n back behind that decoy".
The father jumped in his truck and took off at high speed to find his son....he found the dA'coy walked up to his son and nudged his foot expecting the worse...
His son was so sound sleep that he never noticed the farmer drive right by him...."Son you just took 10 years off what little life I have left".
My buddy said when he opened his eyes his dad was shaking like a coon passing persimmon seeds.
The farmer had called 911...2 Sheriffs dept. cars an ambulance a coroners vehicle and an unmarked car were waiting on them.
True story....told to me by my buddy (The sleeping son)
LMAO
Oh man that sounds like me.I was sound asleep last Tuesday and the gobbler had to wake me up so I could kill him. He gobbled,I woke up and he was 20 yards away. Not sure but I think he gobbled at my snoring.
im always afraid of falling asleep and waking up to a snake visitor
dirt nap, one of my buddy's dad doesn't turkey hunt to this day for that very reason. woke up and a cotton mouth was coiled up b/w his legs. had to shoot it w/ his shotgun which wasn't an easy task. he's never been back in turkey woods.
also, my grandad's favorite story to mess w/ my head about snakes is about one of his friends that fell asleep in a log pile one cool morning. he awoke to find a bunch of copper heads sunning around him on the logs. not sure if true or not but gives me the heeby jeebies.
True Story - 4 of us hunted gobblers out of a cabin in Morgan County, WV. It was the third day of the season and all of us were dragging a$$. Huck, one of our guys saw Red sitting against a tree with his head on his chest; gun across his lap... sound asleep. Huck snuck up and placed his red bandanna in Red's shotgun barrel and snuck off without waking him. Needless to say, Red reluctantly returned to the cabin for lunch for he knew what was awaiting him.
One more and I'm not lying..............
Same cabin near Sleepy Creek, WVa ..... all but one of the gang returned to eat lunch one spring day. Someone said they heard a shot that morning. He didn't return so we went out after lunch to find him laying face down in the road dead. He was clutching a gobbler in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Dont quit reading .... two years later all but one returned to the cabin for lunch. With what happened two years earlier, we went out to search in the vicinity he was hunting. Someone said they heard a turkey gobbling in his area that morning. After walking for more than an hour we spotted him sitting dead against a tree, box call still in his hands...a massive heart attack.
For us died-in-the-wool turkey hunters .... what a way to go.
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 29, 2014, 01:48:03 PM
One more and I'm not lying..............
Same cabin near Sleepy Creek, WVa ..... all but one of the gang returned to eat lunch one spring day. Someone said they heard a shot that morning. He didn't return so we went out after lunch to find him laying face down in the road dead. He was clutching a gobbler in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Dont quit reading .... two years later all but one returned to the cabin for lunch. With what happened two years earlier, we went out to search in the vicinity he was hunting. Someone said they heard a turkey gobbling in his area that morning. After walking for more than an hour we spotted him sitting dead against a tree, box call still in his hands...a massive heart attack.
For us died-in-the-wool turkey hunters .... what a way to go.
Atleast I'd go out happy. We had at man died of a heart attack this past deer season. He wasn't draging a deer either and was in his 40's. This is why I keep my GPS on my phone turned on. Don't mind going out while hunting but I hate coyotes and hogs...
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 29, 2014, 01:48:03 PM
One more and I'm not lying..............
Same cabin near Sleepy Creek, WVa ..... all but one of the gang returned to eat lunch one spring day. Someone said they heard a shot that morning. He didn't return so we went out after lunch to find him laying face down in the road dead. He was clutching a gobbler in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Dont quit reading .... two years later all but one returned to the cabin for lunch. With what happened two years earlier, we went out to search in the vicinity he was hunting. Someone said they heard a turkey gobbling in his area that morning. After walking for more than an hour we spotted him sitting dead against a tree, box call still in his hands...a massive heart attack.
For us died-in-the-wool turkey hunters .... what a way to go.
I'm not ready to check out yet, I'm glad I don't hunt with you. Lol....
I couldn't believe they were hunting my birds LOL
Holy cow gobbler777, I don't think you should take anybody hunting anymore!! :TooFunny:
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 29, 2014, 01:37:40 PM
True Story - 4 of us hunted gobblers out of a cabin in Morgan County, WV. It was the third day of the season and all of us were dragging a$$. Huck, one of our guys saw Red sitting against a tree with his head on his chest; gun across his lap... sound asleep. Huck snuck up and placed his red bandanna in Red's shotgun barrel and snuck off without waking him. Needless to say, Red reluctantly returned to the cabin for lunch for he knew what was awaiting him.
Yeah I don't get this story at all
Quote from: Dirt nap on April 29, 2014, 12:29:48 PM
im always afraid of falling asleep and waking up to a snake visitor
Had this happen to me a couple of years ago.Nodded off on an afternoon hunt sitting close to a creek bank,woke up with a 4" cotton mouth between my legs,head facing my "boys".
I have gotten to old to be trying to jump up,roll out of the way and all that kind of crap.
I took my gun and held it up with my hand and pulled the trigger with my thumb,hoping I didn't hit anything that I didn't need to.
"Two years ago I took the first two weeks of the Maryland Turkey season off. I work nights for the State of MD Department of Agriculture. Hunted hard the first week and didn't feel real right, but stayed at it. Season opened on a Wednesday I think. The next Monday, a replacement couldn't work for me so I had to come in. Our office is on a second floor. Had to stop half way up stairs...hard breathing. Went to Doc next day. Scheduled sonogram next week. Massive coronary. They couldn't tell when....just that I should have been dead before then. I fought off the effects as best I could to get back out in the Turkey-Wood. Ol' Tom almost had me on his wall that year. July I had open heart. Needed 4 bypasses but they could only find two to fix, before calling it quits. So I'm only working on 2 of 4 screwed up cylinders. Got ol' Tom last year. This year, a friend asked me to teach her how to hunt. Besides being my "new" hunting partner....she's my...."Young Hen". I'm 55 and she's 29......GOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLE......(True story as well)...."
Quote from: Spring_Woods on April 29, 2014, 10:39:40 PM
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 29, 2014, 01:37:40 PM
True Story - 4 of us hunted gobblers out of a cabin in Morgan County, WV. It was the third day of the season and all of us were dragging a$$. Huck, one of our guys saw Red sitting against a tree with his head on his chest; gun across his lap... sound asleep. Huck snuck up and placed his red bandanna in Red's shotgun barrel and snuck off without waking him. Needless to say, Red reluctantly returned to the cabin for lunch for he knew what was awaiting him.
Yeah I don't get this story at all
You've probably been getting up early too many mornings in a row and are tired. Try reading again. My 5 year old grand dausghter thought it was very funny. LOL
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 30, 2014, 11:08:55 AM
Quote from: Spring_Woods on April 29, 2014, 10:39:40 PM
Quote from: gobbler777 on April 29, 2014, 01:37:40 PM
True Story - 4 of us hunted gobblers out of a cabin in Morgan County, WV. It was the third day of the season and all of us were dragging a$$. Huck, one of our guys saw Red sitting against a tree with his head on his chest; gun across his lap... sound asleep. Huck snuck up and placed his red bandanna in Red's shotgun barrel and snuck off without waking him. Needless to say, Red reluctantly returned to the cabin for lunch for he knew what was awaiting him.
Yeah I don't get this story at all
You've probably been getting up early too many mornings in a row and are tired. Try reading again. My 5 year old grand dausghter thought it was very funny. LOL
I read it again, still nothing.
Didn't laugh either.
I'm sure it was funny, but I'm not sure that stuffing ANYTHING into the muzzle of a loaded shotgun is the bast idea. :-\
Quote from: L.F. Cox on April 29, 2014, 07:55:02 AM
Turkey hunter found dead by black farmer....
This farmer was out checking his field when he spotted a turkey dA'coy down at one end of the field...he drove up on the dA'coy and noticed this fellow sitting against a tree back in the bushes...the fellow didn't move or show any signs of moving.
The black guy drove off..
The hunters dad was at their truck when the farmer drove back to it.
He pulled up and asked the man...."You got's any body down they're a hunt'n" the guys dad replied "Yes my son"...."You betta get's down they'a and check on him cause yo son is dead".
In total frantic the father asked "Where's he at ?"....."He'z down that field ta the right sitt'n back behind that decoy".
The father jumped in his truck and took off at high speed to find his son....he found the dA'coy walked up to his son and nudged his foot expecting the worse...
His son was so sound sleep that he never noticed the farmer drive right by him...."Son you just took 10 years off what little life I have left".
My buddy said when he opened his eyes his dad was shaking like a coon passing persimmon seeds.
The farmer had called 911...2 Sheriffs dept. cars an ambulance a coroners vehicle and an unmarked car were waiting on them.
True story....told to me by my buddy (The sleeping son)
Was going to just let it go but...What bearing does the color of the farmer have to do with that story? I'm probably opening a can of worms. I'm o.k. with that...Otherwise a great story!
Was going to just let it go but...What bearing does the color of the farmer have to do with that story? I'm probably opening a can of worms. I'm o.k. with that...Otherwise a great story!
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EXACTLY!! ^^^^^ :angry9:
A few friends of mine (father &son and son is fairly new to hunting)
They were hunting up in NY adirondacks. So they split up at day light with plans to.meet up for lunch.
lunch comes and goes but son does not come out. Dad assumes son is on deer and decides to wait for him.
after abiut an hr with no shot dad starts. To get real worried.
Some more time passes and here comes son out of the woods
jacket open shirt open and white as a ghost.says dad. Well turned out he got to his spot
rested his gun next to the tree and settled in ( for what must have been a long winters nap)
Well when he wakes up there is a very large bear 500lbs ish.
about 10 feet from him foraging through the leaves and eating an apple core that he had finished and tossed.
now the story from the son was when he woke from his deep sleep and saw the bear he actually thought dor a minute that it was his dads black ford ranger and thought to himself where the hell am I.
until he realized it was a bear. Then he remembered that his gun was not in his lap and still next to the tree.
his option was to reach for the gun (a muzzle loader) and risk startling this big bear or close eyes and pray that he goes off on his own. So needless to day after about a half hr the bear wandered off on he's own.
And my friend went to find his dad. He actually was a little afraid of the woods after that and missed a season.or 2.