Posted on 05/09/2021 3:07:36 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
A man hiking a Missouri trail was shot over the weekend by a hunter who mistook him for a turkey, police say.
Around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, St. Charles County police responded to the Lewis and Clark Trail, the agency wrote in a Facebook post.
A hunter thought the hiker was a turkey and shot him, police said.
Rescue crews used a utility task vehicle to remove the man from the wooded area before he was flown to a hospital “with serious, life threatening injuries,” a spokesperson for the St. Charles Ambulance District told KMOV.
The incident is under investigation.
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Hunter Biden moved to Missouri?
My brother is a real turkey but I don’t want to shoot the fool......
His babymomma is from Missouri.
His babymomma is from Missouri.
Bull crap. I don’t believe that.
“A man hiking a Missouri trail was shot over the weekend by a hunter who mistook him for a turkey, police say.”
Did the victim look like Barney Fife? He always looked like a turkey to me.
I heard that he got ‘em in the giblets . . .
Good Lord! Just how big are the turkeys there, anyway?
I do not hunt turkey. The object of turkey hunting is to be as invisible as possible and to sound as much like a turkey as possible.
Deadly combination. Too many idiots taking “sound shots”.
The hiker was shot during a turkey hunt managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation, according to KSDK. The hunt was set to wrap up around 1 p.m. Turkey hunting season concludes Sunday.
Why do you have a turkey hunt on a popular hiking trail ?
If the Hiker is a Lib[Marxist], it’s likely a turkey [in thinking at least].
Turkey?
You mean he shot Gerald Nadler?
Prayers up.
The Turkeys around here parade along the driveway whilst announcing their presence.
No concealment for them.
Apparently they are the King’s turkeys as taking one ist verboten.
Turkey hunting has the worst rate of accidental shootings, considering far fewer people hunt turkey than deer.
Not sure why that is, but they seem to ignore the part about identifying your target before pulling the trigger.
I remember a few years back in one of the hunting magazines I read about a world champion turkey caller who got shot and killed calling in turkeys during turkey season. Evidently somebody just shot at the sound.
They never caught the culprit.
“he hiker was shot during a turkey hunt managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation, according to KSDK. The hunt was set to wrap up around 1 p.m. Turkey hunting season concludes Sunday.”
why the heck would they have open hiking trails during a managed hunt. If you are having a special managed hunt they should restrict public recreation... “Men with guns in woods, stay out.” Wonder if this person that got shot was an anti-hunt protester?
Hunter shouldn’t smoke crack and use a gun.
2 rules a Hunter has to have ingrained into his brain
1). Never point the rifle at something. you do not intend to kill
2). Identify your target, before you pull the trigger
It’s not rocket science. I don’t care if the victim was dressed like a turkey, and was making sounds like a turkey - the HUNTER has he deadly weapon, the HUNTER aimed a deadly weapon at the target, and the HUNTER pulled the trigger, without identifying what the hell he was shooting.
Just a hair’s breadth away from pre-meditated murder, lacking only motive.
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