I was weighing whether to buy a pistol for target shooting or a shotgun for the hunting season, and I couldn't afford to get both.
Since I have a bow, I reasoned, I should get the pistol so I can have fun with target, plate, and bullseye shooting at my local club over the winter - and that'd hold me until Spring, when I would get a shotgun for Spring Turkey. So I came home with a new Ruger Mark III. Sounded like a good plan....
Until today... when on the last day of the fall turkey season in Mass (and the only day I'd been able to get out for turkey), I found myself eye to eye(s) with 30+ turkeys making their way through the woods. And, you guessed it... staying just outside my bow range the entire time. If I had gotten the shotgun I wanted, I'd be eating turkey for dinner instead of tag soup. Away they went, up the hillside too fast for me to catch them - and stalking turkey's a good way to end up dead, so all I could do was stand there and drool.
And to top it off, I've just started hunting turkey - would have been my first one. Let this be a lesson to all....
Since I have a bow, I reasoned, I should get the pistol so I can have fun with target, plate, and bullseye shooting at my local club over the winter - and that'd hold me until Spring, when I would get a shotgun for Spring Turkey. So I came home with a new Ruger Mark III. Sounded like a good plan....
Until today... when on the last day of the fall turkey season in Mass (and the only day I'd been able to get out for turkey), I found myself eye to eye(s) with 30+ turkeys making their way through the woods. And, you guessed it... staying just outside my bow range the entire time. If I had gotten the shotgun I wanted, I'd be eating turkey for dinner instead of tag soup. Away they went, up the hillside too fast for me to catch them - and stalking turkey's a good way to end up dead, so all I could do was stand there and drool.
And to top it off, I've just started hunting turkey - would have been my first one. Let this be a lesson to all....