I was watching TV and heard a shot. There were about 20 turkeys out back and they all took off up the hill...well, most of them. DH called the state police and the game commisioner, but the drive by shooter had left. Sure enough, he (an older man who went back to camp to get his son) came back. DH and a neighbor met them at the road and waited for the police to come. It turned out that he killed 3 turkeys and injured one. He shot from his truck, across the road, into my back yard. Supposedly, his fine will be around $1000, and he's trying to get out of the one about shooting in a protected area.
I am so mad.

Wow - He shot into someone's backyard and wants to get out of it?? God forbid someone was in the yard and he shot them....

He should be fined more than $1000

Poor Turkeys!! Glad everyone else is okay though

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No one has shot any in my yard but I have to dodge them when I go out the driveway and down the road.They are everywhere here.

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We lived in Michigan and a friend made her kids wear orange vests because the nutters near her house would shoot at anything that moved in the Fall.

Isn't it also against the law that he shot from his car? I am just curious as I know nothing about hunting since I am So. CA born & raised.

Shooting from a car or over a baited field is against the law here. Both can carry jail time and they both carry a huge fine of $1,000 dollars or more.

Yes. It's against the law. The guy was around 70 and has a handicapped hunting license...so he kept playing that card. You can shoot from the car with a handicapped license, but you have to be parked and off the road. And there is no way you should ever shoot across the road, or into someone's yard. He was driving down the road, saw the turkeys, slowed down and shot out the window. The game commisioner was not impressed about the handicapped license, especially since the guy was out of the truck and walking all around.

Wow. I hope they get him good. Literally I hope he gets jail time. He could have killed someone. I seriously doubt that that was his 'first offense' ever either. I am livid for you! Maybe you should double his pleasure and take him to civil court. You will always live in fear now of something like that happening again whenever you are in your yard. Cudos to your DH and neighbor for standing up to him!!! I grew up on over 100 acres on a farm out in the middle of nowhere and dreaded every single hunting season. So dangerous. The men in my family are all hunters, but responsible, law-abiding ones that use their own land to hunt on. My parents still live on this land/farm. We can't even enjoy it outside when it's hunting season (hunters are all over the dirt roads, I've seen them shoot from their vehicles into God knows what), and you are always on guard even when it's not actually hunting season. I've seen about everything and yes a lot of stupid hunters have no clue and will shoot at anything that moves.

wow your lucky your children or you weren't out there. That is scarey.

Good argument for stricter gun control. Too many nuts have guns.

I used to keep my horse in the barn during deer season because you know a 800 pound brown and white horse looks just like a whitetail deer. Especially when it's standing behind a wire fence that is attached to the side of a barn that's located 20 yards behind a big white farm house.

I don't know of anywhere that it's legal to shoot from a car, across a road and into someones back yard.

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You don't even want to get me started on hunting near houses. In the town I live in, we had a young mother with one year old twin girls get shot and killed (murdered) in her back yard near her clothes line. As a matter of fact they just had a write up about it in our local paper. It was 20 years ago that this happened. She was considered an *outsider*, because she wasn't born in the state of Maine. To make a very long, heated story short, the man who killed her was found not guilty...and didn't even have to give up his hunting license. To this day....he still insists that he saw a deer and that is what he thought he shot. Twenty years ago I felt this man should have been sentenced to jail, and to this day I still feel he got away with murder. It was very sad for our entire community because it caused a huge division between hunters/non-hunters. I grew up in a family of hunters. But, the very first thing you learn is....know your target and watch the boundarys of your hunting area.

All I can say if that this Kathy is truly scary and like another poster said what if there were kids or people around, I would be very worried and scared.. Catherine