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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/md-man-accidentally-shoots-friend-while-turkey-hunting/2018/01/26/c2480ec2-029c-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.a45da6e8b092
Wild turkeys feed in a residential back yard in Clear Brook, Va., in November 2014. (Courtesy Bill Henkel)The two men — Dennis Yoder, 66, and James Gilbert, 67, headed to an area near Whaleyville, Md. — population 124 — near the Maryland and Delaware border Jan. 20. They were hunting for wild turkey on land they lease at the Chesapeake Forest Lands, an area of more than 58,000 acres that was once used to make timber.
Typically, the pair would go their separate way in the woods but stay in contact using their cellphones, said Candy Thomson, a spokeswoman with the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
Yoder forgot his phone.
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