Turkey Goes Through Windshield

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  1. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Hell, enough Wild Turkey and I've tried to fly
     
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  3. sirjeff

    sirjeff Medium Load Member

    That's a good sized bird! Glad the driver is okay

    A friend of mine had a hawk fly right through the windshield of his logging truck then go #######... told me that story after I showed him the barn owl I smoked and was trying to nurse back to health in the cab. "Be careful, wrap him up in a blanket in case he goes nuts"
     
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  4. FearTheCorn

    FearTheCorn Heavy Load Member

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    I saw a crow smack into the windshield of a Schneider driver going into Nashville. Shattered his windshield. I suppose a turkey could do a lot more damage. I hate those things. Walk all over my deck, scratch it up, crap everywhere. More of them should be run over.
     
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  5. Numb

    Numb Crusty Curmudgeon

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    well, they are good eatin'. bag a few
     
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  6. FearTheCorn

    FearTheCorn Heavy Load Member

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    I've seriously thought about it. They look scraggly though. Also haven't checked on what shot to buy.
     
  7. Numb

    Numb Crusty Curmudgeon

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    #5 or #6 in 12 gauge should do it. short range. to 30 or 40 yrds

    wild ones aren't as fat as farm raised. lol
     
  8. larry_minn

    larry_minn Light Load Member

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    I hit one in a car down in Minneapolis decades back. I saw it flip in air, nail a city PD car behind me. Long before dash cameras. I kept flying.
     
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    201 Road Train Member

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    If you look at the roof of the Coke truck, it did more damage than just a windshield. I hit something big one night, bent my right side mirror in, once I was following some truck, they hit something big, I thought it was an Eagle, but I think it was an owl. They can get pretty big too.
     
  10. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I have a friend in the SF Bay Area. She told me that flocks of wild turkeys roam the neighborhood. pooping everywhere and have been known to attack people. I told her that they wouldn't last a week around here where I live. She sent this pic she got from the local net.

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  11. Numb

    Numb Crusty Curmudgeon

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    that's a month's supply of dinners!! lol
     
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