After Eighteen Years of Hunting It Finally Happened

[beauleyse10]

It finally happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2W-zKnWc1o&feature=youtu.be

[guesswho]

Congrats.   Welcome to the big league.  Firing warning shots to make it more challenging is admirable. 

[Divenut2]

 

Congrats.   Welcome to the big league.  Firing warning shots to make it more challenging is admirable.

Now that's funny! 


beauleyse10 - I wish I could say I never missed during the last 46 years I've been hunting, but I can't....       Will you be putting that 2nd round in your shotgun next time?   

Be well man

[Yoteduster]

Now you should be good for another 18

[Greg Massey]

ONLY if i had one more shell...      It's happen to all of use , welcome to the miss club....

[zelmo1]

Catch and release bro   

[Harty]

A healthy dose of humility is a good thing.....unfortunately Turkeys humble me far too often.

[yelpy]

Get rid of that camera. It just messed you up. LOL!

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[tal]

 I swore I'd never miss one, until I missed him..

[Tail Feathers]

It is not a miss guys. 
It's a CONSERVATIONIST WARNING SHOT!

[dublelung]

I'd say you shot no less than 2 feet over his head lol. A miss beats a wounded turkey any day and that's very likely what could've come from the 2nd shot IF you'd had a shell in there.

Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.

[beauleyse10]

I'd say you shot no less than 2 feet over his head lol. A miss beats a wounded turkey any day and that's very likely what could've come from the 2nd shot IF you'd had a shell in there.

Any particular reason you only load one shell? The only time I've done that was when hunting with the single barrel.

I have been hunting/killed a turkey for the past 18 years and never missed one. I have always kept the gun empty, slide open, until I set up to kill a bird. I then slide one in the action and close it. I have never needed an extra shot so I just stop putting it in there a few years back.

[High plains drifter]

I've missed 1, in 25 years, but I can see how it could happen. The better you get at it, the closer the shots get. I've gone to the bow , many times these last few years, because I want even more of a challenge. I think with a bow, you have to use a decoy,  or wait in ambush on a trail, which is sort of unethical,  in my opinion,  not saying I've never done it.

[Waynesworld23]

It happens I missed three in two seasons that stung a little

[Marc]

I'll say this much...  You started off with confidence, not even loading more than one shell in a repeater...  I have never had that type of confidence.

I missed a couple years back (for the first time in decades), and was glad to have the second shot...  Shooting at the head in tall grass (shot over him), and he poked up for a second look...  thought I missed that shot as well.  What I though was him running through the grass was him flopping and falling into a small gully...

It is a haunting feeling of humility...  I will remember that miss long after many that I did not.