The way the storynow readsmakes me wonder if the shooter shot at a decoy and hit the victim in the process. Regardless---positive ID is paramount!!

One late evening I was hunting with a friend. We split up and went to two different fields about 150 yards apart to see if we couldn't catch a bird going to roost. After an hour or so I noticed something bright red to my right through some brush about 45-50 yards away on the egde of my field. My heart started pounding because I thought for surea gobbler was coming into the field toward my decoys.

I eased my binoculars up and looked through the brush. The red ended up beingthe face of my friend as the late evening sun hit it. If I had have been quick on the trigger and not made a complete positive ID hecould have gotten a face full.

I going out in the moring to call for a friend and his young son. I now have some concernced setting up a strutting decoy in an area that I am unfamiliar with.

BE CAREFUL---BE REAL CAREFUL!!!