Some places I can’t hardly hear it unless he’s inside 30’yards. Some places I can hear one 150 yards away. For some reason it’s all about terra for me. I will never forget one time in Kansas I could hear a turkey drumming as loud as you can imagine and he was standing on a hill every bit of 250 yards away. It is definitely a strange sound and a strange frequency
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#3669301 05/11/2208:47 PM05/11/2208:47 PM
I'm convinced I can't hear it. I haven't been around a ton of gobblers, but I've had them strutting within 50-75yds a handful of times and I've never heard it. I've also had people post or send me videos claiming to be good examples of clear, easy-to-hear drumming, and *nothing*. Supposedly you can hear it clearly in this video below...but I can't.
I think it's just an issue of not being able to hear certain frequencies. I hate it too, because by all accounts it's a really cool thing to experience.
Yep on the video - very clear on cheap computer speakers. Some folks pick up that frequency some don't. I can hear some gobblers drumming at 100 yds, some have to be in range, I think some do it better than others. Great sound no doubt!
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#3669303 05/11/2208:47 PM05/11/2208:47 PM
I used to be able to hear one drumming as far as 80-100yds in open woods or a field. Noticed this year that I couldn’t hear it until a bird was under 40. Sucks getting old
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#3669320 05/11/2209:11 PM05/11/2209:11 PM
Some are definitely louder than others, I remember one in Texas, buddy and I were scrambling to lay eyes on him cause it sounded like he was 20 steps and when we saw him he was at least 100 yards, almost walked up on 2 this season while going to a gobbling bird that was a good ways off and I stopped just before I topped a ridge to see if he would gobble again and heard drumming, peeked over the ridge and there’s 2 strutting with 4 hens about 70 yards and the turkey I was going to gobbled about 200 yards away
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#3669323 05/11/2209:15 PM05/11/2209:15 PM
I killed one that the only thing I heard was drumming that tipped me off he was coming this year. I can hear it really well but like Turkey Joe said, I can only hear the spit on videos unless I put my bose headphones on to listen.
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#3669350 05/11/2209:53 PM05/11/2209:53 PM
I've never heard it in the woods either and I've been plenty close to them to where I should've heard it. I can play that video in my truck and I can hear it on my truck speakers.
The first hunt I went on this year I inadvertently set up right under a gobbler in the dark. He was literally 20 yards from me on the limb. It was still good and dark and I was dozing off and I heard him spit. This went on for 45 minutes or so as he woke up and began strutting and gobbling on the limb. I heard him spit every time but no drumming. I don't know why I can hear it in the truck but not in the woods but that's my experience. Maybe I need to buy some of those Tetra earbuds
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#3669411 05/12/2204:23 AM05/12/2204:23 AM
Before greenup I’m pretty sure I can hear it from 200 yards away in the woods in the mountains. In open fields they have to be around 100 for me to hear it. Out West I can hear gobbles a mile away if the terra allows it.
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I can hear drumming well as a general rule. Sometimes they can be 125yds and others I cannot hear it until they are 40yds and I assume that has to do with weather conditions as much as anything. I cannot hear a turkey spit unless I can physically see the bird in say a pasture at close range. If I can watch the bird with my naked eye and see what he is doing I can condition myself to hear that spit but without a visual I cannot hear the spit. Nothing gets my heart pumping faster than hearing a bird drumming. It seems when they get to the point of hearing them drum the odds of my success seem to escalate exponentially.
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#3669608 05/12/2211:04 AM05/12/2211:04 AM
You're not the only one. I know several folks that turkey hunt that cannot hear it. I hear it often and several birds have been killed because of it. I hope I can hear them for many years to come. One of the most exciting sounds in the spring woods. You can almost feel it.
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#3669778 05/12/2205:15 PM05/12/2205:15 PM
Before greenup I’m pretty sure I can hear it from 200 yards away in the woods in the mountains. In open fields they have to be around 100 for me to hear it. Out West I can hear gobbles a mile away if the terra allows it.
I've heard some on the roost from that far. A still, cold morning, and a turkey roosted on a high hill, and I can still hear it a long way. My high frequency hearing is terrible, but my low frequency is still pretty normal. I have noticed that I am not hearing gobbling as well as I used to, but I haven't noticed any change in drumming.
That's gotta be the greatest sound in nature.
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#3669795 05/12/2205:40 PM05/12/2205:40 PM
I'm convinced I can't hear it. I haven't been around a ton of gobblers, but I've had them strutting within 50-75yds a handful of times and I've never heard it. I've also had people post or send me videos claiming to be good examples of clear, easy-to-hear drumming, and *nothing*. Supposedly you can hear it clearly in this video below...but I can't.
I think it's just an issue of not being able to hear certain frequencies. I hate it too, because by all accounts it's a really cool thing to experience.
I can clearly hear it on that video.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been hunting with someone and I’ve been looked at like I had two heads because I tapped them on the shoulder and whispered “He’s here, get ready”. My wife tells me i have a connection with them and just “sense” wren there are around. I tell her that’s not the case, I can just hear them and she rolls her eyes.
Last year my son and I were sitting on a two year old cutover deer hunting. I told him there was a deer within 100 yards of us and it took him 20 min to find it with binos. He asked me how I knew it was there. I could hear it chewing whatever it was eating.
I’ve been blessed with good hearing. I wish my eyesight was as good.
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#3670095 05/13/2207:55 AM05/13/2207:55 AM
I hunted along time before I heard it. Then I finally heard it and now I hear it almost every time I’m within range of a strutting turkey. I think it’s a sound that you have to learn to hear. Hear it once and you’ll know what to listen for.
As far as in videos I can only hear it when I watch on a tv with a sub woofer
Before greenup I’m pretty sure I can hear it from 200 yards away in the woods in the mountains. In open fields they have to be around 100 for me to hear it. Out West I can hear gobbles a mile away if the terra allows it.
I've heard some on the roost from that far. A still, cold morning, and a turkey roosted on a high hill, and I can still hear it a long way. My high frequency hearing is terrible, but my low frequency is still pretty normal. I have noticed that I am not hearing gobbling as well as I used to, but I haven't noticed any change in drumming.
That's gotta be the greatest sound in nature.
I can hear them gobble out west on the roost on a calm low humidity morning well in excess of a mile. Those rios and merriams have much higher pitched frequencies that travels a long dang way.
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#3670673 05/14/2203:36 AM05/14/2203:36 AM
Sounds like a jig blaring music a few miles away, or the release of a jake break turning in 1/2 mile gate away, I click the safety off when it sounds like a balloon full of bees
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#3670776 05/14/2209:10 AM05/14/2209:10 AM