Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

In before Dick Cheney references!

Frantic Freddie: Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

You're right. Better off dead than risk not bagging a turkey!

/snark-ity-snark

"An investigator says a teenager accidentally shot a friend with an arrow and killed him while the two were turkey hunting in southern Illinois."

You don't normally wear orange when you're bow hunting. You have to be very close to your target to shoot it.

Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

This.

Frantic Freddie: Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

In all fairness, the Turkeys aren't packing heat, so this little advantage seems trivial.

Has anyone else mentioned that nobody wears blaze orange when hunting turkeys? Ghillie suit? Yes. Orange? No.

Bow chick-a bow bow



// Hot like ... something or the other.

Maybe he called him a JT. Should have just said cocksucker.

/Hot

The fact that it was with a bow exponentially increases the dumbass factor. The longer time it takes to nock, pull back, release, the closer range to the target... Massive fail.

Frantic Freddie: Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

Surely there is some alternitive that we can use to shoot the game and not the other hunters?

/not a hunter
//or a turkey

Ted Nugent has been called to the scene, and has soaked up all the retard.

If you are close enough for a bow. You should be close enough to correctly identify the target.

The shooter needs to be charged.

An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: If you are close enough for a bow. You should be close enough to correctly identify the target.

The shooter needs to be charged.

Or at least slapped around a bit

You jive turkey.

EatHam: I believe I could hunt turkeys in my back yard with a pair of pliers.

That's no way to speak of family.

Dude, it was an honest mistake. He thought it was a rare best friend turkey mutant.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys looked like my ex-friend.

Turkey hunts are usually stationary hunts around a decoy and the fact that a bow was used probably means it was a close-range shot. Till all the details are known it's too soon to pass judgement.

aproooves

MorningBreath: Hinkle says a 16-year-old hunter accidentally shot Long in the back after mistaking the victim for a turkey. It was only after he field dressed his friend, that the hunter realized his mistake, according to authorities.

wow, just wow.


Wait, field dressed? Does that mean he took out a knife and gutted his friend? He didn't realize he was gotting a human being until after he was done? Are turkeys that big over there?

Great Justice: Frantic Freddie: Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

Surely there is some alternitive that we can use to shoot the game and not the other hunters?

/not a hunter
//or a turkey

Yeah. It's called two eyes and a brain.

An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: If you are close enough for a bow. You should be close enough to correctly identify the target.

The shooter needs to be charged.

THIS!

Seriously. Rule #2 applies to archery as well as shooting. If you're close enough to shoot a turkey with a bow (no more than 40 feet or so), you're close enough to know that the target at which you're shooting is NOT a turkey.

EatHam: I believe I could hunt turkeys in my back yard with a pair of pliers.

Well, not just any pliers.

FilmBELOH20: Has anyone else mentioned that nobody wears blaze orange when hunting turkeys? Ghillie suit? Yes. Orange? No.


I prefer to dress like a large turkey with a large bullseye on my chest.

Turkey hunting accidents always baffle me. Bow or shotgun you've got to get them in close (like 40 yards). Rule #1 is to identify your target and what's behind it. How do you screw it up that close?

Carthax: An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: If you are close enough for a bow. You should be close enough to correctly identify the target.

The shooter needs to be charged.

THIS!

Seriously. Rule #2 applies to archery as well as shooting. If you're close enough to shoot a turkey with a bow (no more than 40 feet or so), you're close enough to know that the target at which you're shooting is NOT a turkey.

I would argue that the following rule applies to both firearms and archery: If you're going to point your gun/bow in any direction it is entirely your responsibility to know what you're aiming at as well as what is behind your target (because you're gonna miss once in a while). If you don't know this, you have no business taking the firearm out of its case/holster.

tuanortsa: WTF are 16 year olds doing with deadly weapons and no farking supervision anyway?

Did you miss the thread about a five year-old with a "mini shotgun".

He killerated a big lizard, a teacher, and the uppity ice cream man.

ZeroCorpse: Yeah. An "accident" in which he gets his friend's PS3 because "he would have wanted it that way".

If you ever want to kill someone, just go hunting, I guess. Shoot a dude in the back? "Oops! I thought he was a deer/turkey/sasquatch. I'm SOooooo broken up about this!"

I wonder how many bad men in bad marriages take their wives hunting?

The problem is, the prosecution is gonna dig up that one bartender to which you drunkenly said "Man, I'd be better off if she were just dead" and convince a jury that the reason you took her hunting was to try to get away with killing her.

ZeroCorpse: Yeah. An "accident" in which he gets his friend's PS3 because "he would have wanted it that way".

If you ever want to kill someone, just go hunting, I guess. Shoot a dude in the back? "Oops! I thought he was a deer/turkey/sasquatch. I'm SOooooo broken up about this!"

I wonder how many bad men in bad marriages take their wives hunting?

my dad says you take your wife hunting, but you buy her a fur coat first..

I found a picture of the hunter, this must have happened by Eagle River...

Hand Banana: How do you mistake a human being for a turkey at that range? Was his friend crawling around on his knees saying "gobble gobble"?

Your mom was crawling around on her knees saying "gobble gobble"

EatHam: omega-x: How do you screw it up that close?

booze

Agreed.

/only reason I don't hunt anymore

Great Justice: Frantic Freddie: Except that turkeys can see the orange,unlike deer.

Surely there is some alternitive that we can use to shoot the game and not the other hunters?

/not a hunter
//or a turkey

Yes. You can have a brain large enough to tell a 150+ lb. man from a 35 lb. turkey, especially at bow-and-aroow range, around 40 yards max. It sounds like this guy was shooting at something he heard, not something he saw. Wearing hunter orange, as others have pointed out, makes turkey hunting a worthless endeavor. Turkeys are ten times more skittish than deer, have much better eyesight, and are, as stated, not color-blind. This is why virtually every state hunting agency requires hunter orange be worn while deer hunting, but not while turkey hunting.

mason4300: Hand Banana: How do you mistake a human being for a turkey at that range? Was his friend crawling around on his knees saying "gobble gobble"?

Your mom was crawling around on her knees saying "gobble gobble"

now work in a joke about Stuffin'

ARROW! Nor aroow!

/hopefully in before the spelling game wardens

labman: He shot him in the back? Sounds like he's got a future in law enforcement.

Only if he gave him a follow up shot when he standing above him and throwing him on the hood of his car while thinking up a cover story.

Nimrod.

/Obscure? Difficulty: not Bugs Bunny!

therhinodep: ARROW! Nor aroow!

/hopefully in before the spelling game wardens

Fail.