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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Apr 5, 2007 7:25:06 GMT -5
I wonder how this happened?I would think he would have been close enough to know that he wasn't a turkey..
Turkey Hunting Accident
In Walker County, Georgia, a 15-year-old boy turkey hunting accidentally gets shot twice.
It happened off Walnut Grove Road.
The sheriff says a friend mistook the 15-year-old boy for a turkey and shot him twice, once in the back of the head and once in the back.
The sheriff is calling this an accidental shooting right now.
He has not released the boy's name or condition yet.
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Post by oneshot on Apr 5, 2007 8:42:36 GMT -5
inexcuseable IMO
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Post by fuzzyhoyt on Apr 5, 2007 8:55:58 GMT -5
NO REASON this should have happened!
Fuzzy
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Apr 5, 2007 9:43:16 GMT -5
That is absolutely ridiculous. Things of this sort should not happen.
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Post by Decatur on Apr 5, 2007 17:53:13 GMT -5
What a shame. When I was 15 I could only hunt with an older cousin, uncle or of course my dad and grandpa. I was NEVER allowed to go out alone with my friends. This could have been easily avoided.
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Post by cambygsp on Apr 8, 2007 7:48:51 GMT -5
What a shame. When I was 15 I could only hunt with an older cousin, uncle or of course my dad and grandpa. I was NEVER allowed to go out alone with my friends. This could have been easily avoided. Yea!.....I aint letting my boy run around with freinds with loaded guns!....No Way! "ESCORTED"....youth hunters are the safest group out there! |
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Post by JohnSmiles on Apr 8, 2007 10:59:47 GMT -5
I was hunting alone or with friends when I was 13 most of the time. The time my dad and older brother had to hunt was very limited and always looked forward to. My dad was lucky to have time to hunt 4-5 times a year. This guy was old enough to know better, and plenty old enough to hunt a turkey. Just like the 'adults' who ALSO have similar accidents every year. Tragic mistake and stupidity yes. Now, the rest of the story: fox61tv.com/first/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1419&Itemid=39So, it was adult supervised, and it was also the adult who fired the shot. And the one shot was wearing camo and a red baseball cap . . .  Now if he only had some blue earmuffs . . . There were not kids, they were extremely stupid hunters. Age is doesn't alway cure being stupid. |
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 8, 2007 11:19:07 GMT -5
That is sad, but a RED BALL CAP??
What was he or his mentor thinking??
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Apr 8, 2007 11:32:29 GMT -5
I don't know..I was always taught to identify your target and what's behind it before shooting..Heck,I wasn't aloud to carry a gun or go hunting by myself until I was like 16.
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Post by Poor Valley on Apr 8, 2007 14:19:19 GMT -5
Boys don't ever let any of us forget we're woodsmen first and turkey hunters second! We can't lose our awareness for one minute when it only takes a second for an accident. Not limited to shootings or red hats.
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Post by larryhagmansliver on Apr 9, 2007 8:43:02 GMT -5
Someone can lose weight, get their teeth whitened, have a nose job or a face lift, but you can't fix stupid! Stupid is as stupid will always be.
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Post by 2dog on Apr 9, 2007 11:39:20 GMT -5
Reminds me of the story last year about the guy getting shot in the back while deer hunting, he was wearing brown carharts and had a white hanky hanging out of his back pocket, with no orange on. It is still inexcusable for someone to shoot not knowing for sure what they are shooting at, but the guy wearing brown with a white tail hanging out of his back pocket should have known better. Maybe its natures way of thinning out the stupid ones LOL
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Post by bsutravis on Apr 9, 2007 11:45:29 GMT -5
Despite what the injured person had on, or didn't had on.......it's still uncomprehendable to me that someone would shoot toward an object that they THOUGHT was a game animal. Unless I see that gobblers head, plain as day, I wouldn't even think about clicking that safety off and shooting toward a color in the brush. I just can't imagine someone being that careless.....
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 9, 2007 14:38:16 GMT -5
No excuses....
Totally inexcusable. Especially for turkeys.
We HAVE to see the beard to make sure it is even a legal turkey.
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Post by daworz on Apr 20, 2007 7:56:29 GMT -5
Sad story, I could not live with myself if i was too shot someone, I really dont understand how this sort of thing happens? Just like where i read that someone was shot with a arrow while hunting, how in the Heck do you misstake someone for a deer and shot them with a bow? Idenitfi (sp) your target, Thats one of first things they teach you in Hunters Ed? I just wounder about this story being ruled accidental, It would be a tough investagation for the Sherrif and a CO.
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