Hunter shoots your bird..What would you do?
A couple of seasons ago, my buddy and I worked a tom all day. We finally ended up back by the roost area. We got him to talk to us and then finally come in to our calls and decoys. The tom tried to be sneaky and comes around from our left. I had to wait for a shot until he was about 20 yrds to my left. I could see his tail fan thru the brush. When all of a sudden...BOOM!!! The tom goes down. What the @&*%$*^%!!! Another hunter came in behind us while we were calling and shot the turkey out from underneath me.
Now he claimed that he didn't know we were there, but he did said he had watched our decoys for about ten minutes. He thought we were 2 real hens calling to the tom so they could all go roost together.
Well after some heated words and some advice to the other guy not to sneak up on calling turkeys, because it would probably be another hunter, we left. On the way out my buddy was so pissed off that he wanted to go back and do something about it. After thinking about it for a while I too thought I should have done something.
What should I have done??? Any Opinions?
Edited by - Blue Moose CO on 01/17/2002 17:09:42