Two Chatham County hunters approaching each other in the woods Tuesday morning, both did their wild turkey calls so well that each one of them thought the other was a turkey—and one of them, in consequence, got a load of No. 4 birdshot in the face and neck.
It happened out on Edwards Mountain in Chatham about five miles from Chapel Hill.
Coy Bowen and Thomas Ray started their wild turkey hunt Monday. When nightfall came, they had failed to make a single kill, so they resumed the hunt Tuesday morning.
To bring the game near, they kept up the gobbling—or yodeling, or warbling, or whatever the noise is that a wild turkey makes.
At just this time Howard Bennett, who lives in the neighborhood started out turkey-hunting. He emitted his calls—then moved on cautiously, and called again.
Presently he heard a turkey answering him. At least, he thought he did. And Bowen and Ray heard him—and thought it was a turkey. The sounds came nearer and nearer to one another. Bowen saw the underbrush move, and blazed away.
Bennett was brough to the infirmary here. Dr. Abernethy found that 15 shot had entered his face and neck. One of them penetrated his jaw and passed through is tongue. His injures were very painful but turned out not to be serious.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Nov. 20, 1925
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