Have you ever been so smart about something that you talked yourself into doing something dumb? Well, this video is my personal occurrence of this principle.
This happened on the afternoon hunt of opening day after my son had killed his bird. It was the same situation as the morning; a mad Tom trying to beat up on our Hazel Creek real decoys. He charged the decoys so fast it was hard to get ready. He was literally gobbling mad as you can see in the video.
I talked myself into shooting high and catching his head with the bottom part of the pattern so not to hit the decoy. Well, I did and he jumped to spur the decoy and as you can see the majority of the shot missed him. Then I shot him high with second shot and missed with a third. I tried to chase him down, but he was too fast. This whole situation makes me sick to hurt an animal and not harvest him, but if you hunt long enough it is going to happen. My dumb smart thinking still makes me mad and it will not happen again. Don’t laugh too hard at the video.