Wild Turkey Almost Shoots a Hunter.

[jdmidwest]

True story, you can't make stuff up like this one.

Boss comes in late to work this morning packing a shotgun into the office.  Not an unusual start to the day around there, guns are a favorite thing to discuss in the morning at my office.

He points out how dirty his new Beretta is and starts a conversation with myself and the other salesman.

He grabbed a hunt on the way to work this morning at a local family farm.  Hops out of truck and finds a gobbler about 50 yards out in strut.  Pulls down on it with his new Beretta and its new Indian Creek custom choke and lets loose.  Gobbler down and flopping.  Not a clean kill, so he sprints out to the bird.  Not being as faithful to the gym anymore, he is out of breath when he reaches the gobbler and lays the gun down in the open field probably to get the phone out for a glory photo, that part was hazy.  He assumes the turkey is dead at this point since it has stopped flopping.

The turkey sees a large man running at him and decides to flatten out to make it look like its hidden.  It seizes the opportunity of distraction, get up and runs its neck thru the sling of the new Beretta.  It catches the gun and the turkey is in full throttle across the open field and has a head start.  Boss realized turkey is taking off, with his shotgun dragging behind it, and takes pursuit, still out of breath from last sprint.

Somewhere in that chase, he remembered something vital to the story.  The gun is still loaded and in the excitement, the safety is still off.  He altered his course and got the bird and the gun.  Rattled, he left the beard on his truck cover and it blew off somewhere on the way.  All he could really remember was that goofy bird running along with that shotgun bouncing up and down behind it.

The gun had blood soaked sling where it attached to the buttstock and pieces of turkey skin and fat.  Mud on the stock from the field and in the vents of the custom choke.  I am pretty sure that really happened.