This afternoon I was making my turkey hotline calls and when I got ahold of my buddy Greg he stopped me short by saying "I had a life and death experience this morning". Greg hunts a 3000 acre cattle ranch near Immokalee, Fla. and he's always good for a dead turkey story opening wk. end. The kids were out of school today so he was taking his 10 yr. old son with him. As they headed for their blind they heard a noise in front of them on the farm rd. they were walking on. Greg shined the light ahead and it turned out to be a cow. No big deal. Greg told the cow to move on but it just stood it's ground. His son picked up a stick and threw it but the cow just stood there. Greg thought, hmmm better skirt around this thing, so they backed up and did just that. When they got about 30 yds. past it they stopped at a 3 ft. diameter cypress and shined their light back just to see if it was still standing in the rd. It was. Greg decided they had better be careful so he decided to move on to the next tree in front of them and he shined his light on it and turned to tell his son the plan. As he whispered to his son he heard the cow running and when he turned to look at it it was on an all out charge and closing ground quick. He knew he could just duck behind the tree and the cow would just pass along side of it. No doing. The cow hooked around the tree and as Greg and his son scurried around his son tripped. Greg is a very experienced hunter and he's made several trips to Africa and he's killed a lot of dangerous stuff. He told me that "thing" had the look of death in it's eye. He went into survival mode and can't remember jacking the gun, flipping off the safety or pulling the trigger.He's sure the bbl was touching it's head when he shot it. The cow hit him in the knees as it crashed to the ground and knocked him on top of his son.They scurried up and ran back to the truck. Hunting was over for today. Greg was still shook up when I talked to him at 4 this afternoon. He was doing a lot of what if'ing. A close call for sure. To add insult to injury the rancher has fined him 1000.00 bucks for killing the cow. I keep saying cow but to be honest Greg isn't sure if it's a cow or a bull. He's going back tomorrowto retreive his son's headlight and check things out. On a happy note. His son shot a 10" bird with 1"spurs on Sat.

Dan