Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How do you mistake a human for a turkey?

How? Just look at this crepey neck.

Incredible..... Yet I've heard those stories many times. I can't seem to get my head around that sort of thing. Now I can only wonder if that hiker had a beard.

Although it looks fun, those hunters out there waving turkey fans around like in the skoot and shoot videos.....are living dangerously, It would have to be a huge tract of private land and me be in the middle of it to even consider it.

Rule 4 violation, people shoot at sounds, and / or very slight movements, they hear a turkey call and blast the underbrush.

I talked to a guy some years ago who got shot that way. His little boy was with him, sitting between his legs while they called. Some moron blasted them twice from the side, both were injured.

That’s why we mostly gun in stands down here, especially in east Texas. There are all kinds of peckerwood numbnuts out in the woods in east Texas. They shoot anything that moves. They ground check everything.

My brothers ex mother in-law shot her first (obviously very dumb) husband 3 consecutive years in a row deer hunting. After the last time he finally left her. Some people are just plain stupid!

I've never seen a man look like a turkey (bird) grin , or a deer.

Read the Bigfoot thread.

That’s what you’re sharing the woods with.

Pfft. People are mistaken for deer many times every season.. I keep hopin' someone will mistake the FLIP for a turkey (face and wattle matches) and bring that fat bird home for roasting..

There is a lot or members in Congress who are Turkeys I would like to shoot.

Bad eyesight could easily be the culprit. But I can attest that even with good vision your eyes can play tricks especially in low light or heavy brush. I've never shot anyone but did kill a bird once that I thought was a squirrel. It was a leafy tree and there was a squirrel up there also.

I was three feet from a turkey twice today...

It didn't talk trash or tell me I was a racist Mexican...

But it's brain was probably bigger than most liberals...

It was a squinty eyed 78 year old codger that shot my buddy. Buddy lost the sight in his left eye and is still carrying around pellets in his head, neck and chest they didn't want to risk removing. Judging by the 2500.00 hubble telescopes a lot of members seem to need to kill bambis dad, I think there are a bunch of those squinty eyed old codgers here.

We were talking about this, this morning because it happened not too far from our house. I could picture this happening with someone so excited they aren't thinking right (obviously) Like a cop yelling TASER, TASER,TASER, and shooting someone with a pistol (firearm). I am not excusing it, but I can imagine it.

For several years during our gun club's youth day I ran a hunter safety course through the woods. I would have some animal targets that were safe and legal to shoot, some illegal per game laws, and others unsafe. I had an orange vest set up between the shooting stand position and a deer target that you couldn't see unless you stepped away from the tree at the shooting position. Another was a bear target across a ravine with a USGI woodland camo shirt near the target showing how well the camo worked. Several adults were impressed with the lessons learned on that course.

Musta been pretty damn ugly....

GRIZZ say he was scared to death to call dogs after watching Alien.

That’s what you’re sharing the woods with.

Bullsheit . . . . . .zero chance I ever mistake a person for a deer or a turkey. ZERO

No chit??!!?? 3 times?

I always wondered what percentage of hunting accidents had something like this in the equation. I'm betting it's pretty high.