Flukes???
Just wondering if any of you guys have had flukes such as missing gimme shots or rolling a tom over to have it get up and run off leaving scant blood and no bird????? Two years in a row I had such instances.....The first was a nice tom called into 31 paces lined the bead up and boom......bird ran off unscathed, he was framed between two 4-5" popples about 24" apart they were raked with shot!!!!! The other was a huge tom at 33 yards shot, rolled him right over he flopped a couple times stood up and ran like crazy had a little blood but never found him. Gun was a Nova with super full hastings choke, and win supremes 3.5" #5's and patterns perfect to 40 yards, both shots looked and felt good. The first bird mentioned lived for about two more months and was killed by a bobcat. Watched him daily, and ended up finding him dead with signs of a struggle and cat tracks and his breast meat partially eaten.