LOL...
My turkey story isn't nearly as good.... early, but completely light out, and I only saw 1 turkey. Elk hunting. Windy. Lots of trees and ground cover. Somehow I got within a few yards when he exploded up and flew right by me into a tree ~30 yards away. Seemed 100x bigger flying by then when it landed in the tree.
Took me 10 minutes before the adrenaline abated enough to walk normally again. Soiled myself as well.
Sounds like the response David E. Petzal gave a reader in Field & Stream last month. He was asked if there was ever a time when he got rattled during a hunt. Petzal said that years ago, he was in Texas on a hunt and inadvertently walked under a big live oak tree that was a roost for several hundred turkeys. He spooked them, and said that after they all took off squawking and flapping and crapping, it took him weeks to get back to normal. If you've ever read his column, you'd know that would take some doing.
