SHANNON COUNTY, Mo. — A man from Mountain View says he is lucky to be alive after being shot while hunting turkey in Shannon County.
He spoke with Michael Deere about how it’s changed how he hunts.
Warning, there may be pictures in this story that some viewers find disturbing.

“I’m trying to figure out what’s going on and it just dawned on me, I’ve been shot,” Chase Rutledge told KY3.
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31-year-old Chase Rutledge was mistaken for a turkey by a 17-year-old hunter with a shotgun.

“You can imagine a bunch of red wasps stinging you, that’s how it felt,” Rutledge described.

Rutledge knows the young man didn’t mean to shoot him.

“He said he thought I was a turkey. He said he shot at movement….said he seen white,” Rutledge added.

Rutledge was helped to his truck and…