If you hunt turkeys long enough, it WILL happen to you. I rolled one 4 shots in a row starting at 25 yards and out to 40 yards. I'd shoot, He'd go down HARD, roll on over and get up and start running again. Before he could get his wings up, I'd roll him again. He finally got a tree on me and flew off. I waited about a half hour and started out of the woods in the direction he flew, looking for him on the ground. The darned bird took off out of the top of a pine tree! He could barely fly, but set his wings and went across a RR track and a swamp where I couldn't follow. I hated to lose that bird, but I don't think he made it throught the night.

I had one very much like your story last year. I framed his head and he still managed to fly off. Just chalk it up to a freak hole in the pattern or none of the shot hitting him in a vital spot.

One thing about turkey hunting -- STUFF HAPPENS![&:]