TDog, I was hunting in Greene Co on Stagshead Lodge property, using a Navy Arms 12ga black powder muzzleloader . Moist, wet air, foggy kind of morning. Didn't hear anything on the roost but I did hear one a lil later 100 er so yards across the property line. I eased over to the line, a five strand barbed wire fence, and spotted a strutting gobbler 125 yards away. I was one my knees in a patch of honey suckle, gun butt on the ground, held in my left hand. I yelped at the gobbler a couple three times, he would answer but he had a wad of hens with him. I was just watching him when I heard a gobble straight behind me...close. I slowly turned my head just as a gobbler walked out of the honeysuckle a dozen er so steps to my right. As he walked behind a 4" tree I pulled the gun to my left shoulder, aimed and fired. The bird disappeared into a huge ball of white smoke, which hung in the wet air. I heard the bird flop and jumped up and ran to him. He was under some of the honeysuckle vines, flopping very hard. I jumped on top of him, dug his head/neck out of the vines and twisted his head till it broke his neck.

I carried him back to the lodge to meet my buddys. As I was telling him how I shot the bird he said I missed him. WTH? We ended up skinning the head neck out, there were NO holes or shot damage. I completely missed him but the smoke confused him and he became tangled in the vines. The rest is history....