I shot my first turkey. Scared the crap out everyone in the frozen food section. It was awesome!

Yea, people can be so rude, I got the same reaction when I shot my deer at the petting zoo. I was even polite enough to advise all the kids to step back.

"Hold my beer and watch this"

It's usually the last words before any great misadventure. LOL

Zeke

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Originally posted by OldFart:
Yea, people can be so rude, I got the same reaction when I shot my deer at the petting zoo. I was even polite enough to advise all the kids to step back.

Grizz

Had a buddy that was hunting back in the 70's shot this great buck then when he approached same dead deer he noticed it had a red ribbon/w bell around its neck + off in the distance he could hear small children calling,"Frosty,Frosty". I asked Doug what he did next,he said I just gutted it + left the bell on the gut pile.I told him you are one cold sob. He replied well if I had stayed they would probably want to bury it.

Back in the late 70's when I worked for another shop instead of myself we had this 'northern transplant' read yankee come to work with us+ when Thanksgiving was rolling around he told everyone in the lunch room he was going to shoot a wild turkey + have a 'natural' Thanksgiving.I told him since he had never been hunting before it might be a little rough.He went anyway + after Thanksgiving we were sitting in the lunch room + he says "It was'nt so hard,he was just sitting by the side of the road pecking on a road kill. I shot him. He was kinda tough though."I did'nt have the heart to tell him.

NC. Two stories, both told by the trainer when us sporting goods employees were getting ready for Texas' (then) new hunter's safety training thing.
One, about a guy who'd roosted a buzzard -- wife got the story out of him because she knew he never missed. "How come no big bang?"
Second, about a rube from New Jersey who did the whole nine yards / bought EVERYTHING for a Colorado cow elk hunt. The rangers ignored him -- you have to check in with them with your quartered, tagged, etc. animal before departure. Anyhow, they finally told him he'd dressed a mule!

I've always hated to say this considering the current anti gun rage but there really are folks out there that have no business owning a gun.