Such a shame here in Wv spring turkey season you must be out of the woods around noon plus who would let a child that young be far enough away from them to mistake them for a bird. Just plain stupid.

I could not agree more. To think that this happened over the idea of killing a turkey, what a shame. I am sure this mistake will haunt this father for the rest of his life.

Bingo! Should of been right beside him...sounds a little funny to me![:@]

I would about bet the father was either drunk or something else is off. I know there is no way I could ever mistake a person for a turkey especially not in shotgun range.

PA is like NY regarding spring turkey. Only until noon and bearded birds only. I hate to kick a man when he is down, but there is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE for this "accident".

It would make no difference in this case ,but if you pull into a place to hunt and there is already a truck there,go else where ,or at least leave a note to what side of the road your hunting. the popularity of turkey hunting is making it more dangerous every year.

I posted this so maybe just maybe every one takes that little extra time to be safe.

How about we just don't shoot any 100+ pound turkeys we see walking around out there? It just doesn't make sense.

What a crying shame. I have no idea how this could happen, but it is an absolute tragedy.There is no use in pointing fingers because the deed is doneand many lives areruined in this case. We have to learn what we can from this poor man's errors.

There is no limit to how safe you should be in the woods, so everyone PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE.

I live about a half hour from where this happened. Very sad indeed. The thing that i don't understand is, in the MN spring turkey hunt you can only shoot toms or jakes. How can this guy be that stupid to shoot something he can't identify. Sounds like he didn't care what the rules were he was just going to shoot whatever moves. Makes me sick!!

RIP - Young man