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Post by JS84 on Mar 18, 2024 16:31:28 GMT -5
Some will point to the decoy as the problem but it really comes down to positively identifying your target www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-hunter-mistakes-man-for-turkey-shoots-him-in-the-head-police-say/www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=402759472379628TLDR:The Bunnell Police Department said officers were dispatched around 7:46 a.m. Sunday to 775 Old Haw Creek Road for reports of a person wounded in a shooting. Bunnell officers, along with Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, arrived at the scene and found a man who’d been shot in the head and torso with what appeared to be a bird shot. Officers spoke with the hunter, who said he was turkey hunting when he saw three female turkeys on the road. He told police that he followed them and then saw what appeared to be a male turkey. He fired his shotgun at the turkey, but in low light, he realized it was a decoy. He then heard someone shout that they’d been shot.  |
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Post by pinman on Mar 18, 2024 16:56:57 GMT -5
Even happens on private land. If I use a decoy anywhere I make sure there is something big beyond it so no one can have a direct line of fire towards my blind.
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Post by swampdog on Mar 18, 2024 18:15:53 GMT -5
Yes - it pays to set up with your back to thick vegetation like a palmetto patch. There are some careless folks out there but hunting is still a very safe activity.
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Post by pinman on Mar 18, 2024 19:38:57 GMT -5
Yes - it pays to set up with your back to thick vegetation like a palmetto patch. There are some careless folks out there but hunting is still a very safe activity. I do that and get something big and thick directly on the opposite side of my decoy. |
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Post by richm on Mar 19, 2024 6:18:47 GMT -5
That had to sting.
Immediately thought of those turkey fan things folks use for stalking. But a turkey stake means just a regular turkey decoy.
Some of them decoys are too good to be true, totally perfect in form, just not moving. You supposed to watch it for a minute or two before shooting?
Some folks put an orange spot on the decoy or on the tree they are leaning against.
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Post by JS84 on Mar 19, 2024 7:10:29 GMT -5
I saw what those #5s did to that Coyote. I can't imagine a load to the face.
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Post by ogbohica on Mar 19, 2024 7:49:42 GMT -5
When they start making decoys that walk and strut its gonna be a whole nother level of this.
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Post by meateater on Mar 19, 2024 9:14:15 GMT -5
ive stalked a few gobbler decoys before, including 2 weeks ago in big cypress. guy had a full fan gobbler decoy set up just off the road on a high ridge that ive seen gobblers on before, jumped off bike at 600 yds and creeped to 100 yds, thru binos up and sure enough a decoy. on public land your taking a big risk using a jake or gobbler decoy.
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Post by meateater on Mar 19, 2024 9:16:22 GMT -5
When they start making decoys that walk and strut its gonna be a whole nother level of this. they already have a motion activated gobbler decoy, kinda like the mojo duck decoy. |
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Post by wildman on Mar 19, 2024 9:18:41 GMT -5
Know a guy that has a strutting gobbler decoy mounted to a remote controlled car, so it basically walks and struts...
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Post by 6thgen on Mar 22, 2024 15:47:45 GMT -5
Rumor is it wasn't an accident... it will be interesting to hear what the investigation turns up.
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Post by gottheitch on Mar 24, 2024 12:16:25 GMT -5
Anyone who shoots at a turkey decoy is a idiot . And should not be hunting .
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Post by bullfrog on Mar 24, 2024 14:09:45 GMT -5
I just googled that address. Looks like private residential and farm land. So who trespassed? The shooter or the guy who got shot? Or was it two guys who knew each other and shared the same land?
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