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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In the fwiw department a gobbler with a 6” beard will come in around 35 lbs. A human is way bigger than a turkey. I'm guessing another Dick Cheney shooting his lawyer scenario.
5.56mm
Read my mind.
And I've killed a Turkey with a bow...
“...but I heard this ‘Gobble, gobble, gobble’ coming from the bushes.
What IS the temperature of an unusually warm deer?
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