the shot.......
do you guys remeber anything from your hunts youve shot turkeys? last year i called mine in.....he sounded off 100yds down over the hill triple gobbled to find the hen he heard earlier.....i answerd he went nuts....got hte gun up i knew he came a good 400yards(path he took was a long one and i heard him at day break) so i knew hed come the rest of the way....he popped up over the hill and kept coming....got to an open path didnt see a hen and started to walk to the left.....next thing i know the gun went off and hes flopping on the ground....i remember the bead being to the left of him....20 yards away he was.....i think he walked into the shot....i was about a foot off...so the edge of the pattern would probably just missed him if he didnt keep walking...but i dont remember taking the saftey off or pulling the trigger.....this year they flew down off the roost 40yards infront of me.....just over the hill i couldnt see them....5 mins later he popped up......i dont really remember anything and this was less then a week ago...i know i let my gun down a bit because that 5 mins felt like an hour....shaking and barely breathing....i know my arm got tired and i let it sag a bit.....just to the right and below where i thought theyd come from....well i seen him and saw the beard flopping....knew he wasnt a jake and i decided to take him....next thing i know hes putting and getting nervous and then BOOM! hes blown backwards from the shot and rolled over twice down the steep hill.....i guess he putted and got nervous because he seen me move...but i dont remember moving..but i had to to get the gun on him.....and remember his neck being like an S and i put the bead right at the base of his head before the gun went off....but i dont know when i took the saftey off and dont recall squeezing the trigger.....im one of the safest guys i know.....saftey is on till im on target and about to shoot.....so i know it WAS on.....do i just not remember because i dont think about it and just do it when the time comes then the adrenaline rush and everything just whipes my mind blank or what?? my gun throws an EXCELLENT pattern....i know if i dont learn to control this im going to start missing sooner or later.....what do you guys do? do you think it out in your head? ok take the saftey off....put the bead at the base of his head(or wherever you aim) and squeeze the trigger......i think thats what i have to start doing to control myself......what do you guys think?? i remember taking the saftey off every deer ive killed.....putting the crosshairs right where they need to be and squeezing the trigger....but i have more time and can think about what im doing.....and deer just seem to appear and turkeys let you know they are coming so your pumped for soooo long before the shot....what do you guys think?? do oyu guys remember everything??? just wondering.....