if it couldn't get any worse

[blingbones1]

hi my fellow turkey hunters;

Well my morning started at 3 am with a plan and a pot of coffee. I checked the weather and it was 33 and cold. so i leave at 4:30 to get to my spot and get up to my set up.

I look at my gun and i noticed my rear sight was missing. I figure i"ll just shoot a little low. I'm sitting there and the sirens go off and the birds went nuts gobbling.

I have 1 to my left and he is 35 yards away and 4 to my right about 80 yards away, what more could u ask for. It's about 5:30 and 1 gobbles about 40 yards from me. I look and there he is 40 yards straight in front of me walking to my left I give him a few soft yelps and he stopped, then started walking toward the 1 to my left who was still in the tree.

Then i hear him fly down and now my gun is up facing down this 4wheel trail. all of a sudden i hear another gobble and the gobbler is 8 feet behind me. I slowly bring the gun around and I'm getting ready to shoot and I see this monster beard hanging off his chest. I let him step just a few more feet to my left so I can get a clear shot.

When he does, I pulled the trigger and the gun goes click. I'm like WTF!!!!

The bird runs out in the middle of the field putting his butt off and as I'm watching all this crap unfold before my eyes. There's 5 long beards running to the corner from this me putting. Now that's a messed up morning, but this turkey and his friends don't have me beat...I WILL BE BACK !!!.

Now its back to the house and get these junk tru glo sights off my gun and figure out y this dam Mossberg didn't fire. Now, I hope tomorrow my day goes good instead of today from bad to worse !!!!

[Bulldogmikey]

WOW take two Valium and say a prayer! It will get better! It happens to the best. Just get um next time. I wish you all the success in the world, Good luck!!

Mike

[hunter22]

Ray,

I feel your pain. I had the same thing happen to me recently with the TruGlo sights. My rear sight was missing completely on my Benelli and ended up costing me a bird on an out-of-state hunt. You would think for that much money they would make something to stay on your gun. Bad thing is I have the same sights on my backup BPS and the set screw holding the rear sight on it stripped. Never again for these.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day for you!!!

[blingbones1]

I hear that and to set it all off, the fiber optic fell of the front site 3 days earlier in the woods.

I had to put a flower pedal in the hole so i could see the front sight for that day.  But, had it fixed when i got home.

I'm done with that TRUGLO crap. But, this birds beard was AMAZING!! i just hope i see him tomorrow. 

[Shadetree Callers]

Just a note on the tru-glo sights. I broke mine a couple of years ago so I contacted them about it, They are a great company and quickly sent me a whole new sight. If you give them a shout, they will make it right. They have awesome customer service. Even if you lose the whole sight, they will replace it for free. They don't even charge shipping. If you have a problem breaking the fiber optics on brush then you can get a roll of itcheap.I got ten feet of each color on ebay for abou 5 dollars. It takes 30 seconds to replace the fiber. It's hard to beat fiber optics for low-light situations.

[blingbones1]

Just a note on the tru-glo sights. I broke mine a couple of years ago so I contacted them about it, They are a great company and quickly sent me a whole new sight. If you give them a shout, they will make it right. They have awesome customer service. Even if you lose the whole sight, they will replace it for free. They don't even charge shipping. If you have a problem breaking the fiber optics on brush then you can get a roll of itcheap.I got ten feet of each color on ebay for abou 5 dollars. It takes 30 seconds to replace the fiber. It's hard to beat fiber optics for low-light situations.

ty ill do just that but 1 thing they cant do is bring that moment back

[blingbones1]

so anyways i took the sight off and went to check my gun with just the front bead and this is the pattern at 30 yards with a fed 3 1/2 number 6 flight control.

[augiedog55]

I think that will do till you get it fixed thats one heck of a pattern at 30 yds my friend.

[Yelpy]

Blingbones1,
                  Sorry to hear of your mishap. That really stinks. There is nothing like having trouble with your shotgun at crunch time. Tommorrow will be a better day. Hope you tag him. From the looks of it he may end up decappitated.

          I am just curious to know if the problem was with the gun or the primers in the shells?

[blingbones1]

well yelpy when i went to see y the gun didn't fire and to see if that front sight was on i used the shell that didn't go off. i think from leaving my gun in the truck overnight it froze the action some how cuz when i checked the pattern i did the same thing i did this am and it fired.

[Zumer]

Blingbones,

                   Time to clean that weapon, Soldier......

                   
    Zips

[blingbones1]

Just a note on the tru-glo sights. I broke mine a couple of years ago so I contacted them about it, They are a great company and quickly sent me a whole new sight. If you give them a shout, they will make it right. They have awesome customer service. Even if you lose the whole sight, they will replace it for free. They don't even charge shipping. If you have a problem breaking the fiber optics on brush then you can get a roll of itcheap.I got ten feet of each color on ebay for abou 5 dollars. It takes 30 seconds to replace the fiber. It's hard to beat fiber optics for low-light situations.

got a hold of trueglo and there sending me new sights thanks for the info.

[hunter22]

Ray,

Truglo sent me parts to repair my two sets of the Pro Magnum Gobble Dot fiber optic sights on my guns. I put one set back on my 10 gauge BPS and will locktite all the screws. This is probably the true test to determine if these will stand up to the recoil and punishment. I am replacing the sights on my Benelli with a BurrisFF2. I have to commend TruGlo on their customer service.

[blingbones1]

same here they treated me very well.