Like Ray Phillips, this happened close to where I live and hunt. Very sad situation, and I feel for both families. I keep coming back to the same question, didn't the shooter know that 99.999% of turkeys would have been roosted long before it was dark?

My sons have started hunting the recently, so I sat through the IL hunter safety course with each of them, once in 2007 and 2008. I think there needs to be a mandatory hunter EDUCATION course for young hunters. Alot of parents drop the kids off and have no idea what they have learned (or not) and assume its now safe for their kids to hunt alone. Nothing could be further from the truth IMO.