What is the furthest distance you’ve been able to hear a bird gobbling from?

A buddy and I where hunting a piece of public land a couple weekends ago, and I set him up at a spot a knew a bird was roosting and I went a mile away from him to listen at a different spot to put our ears on more ground. Sure enough the bird I put him on gobbles right at daylight within 100 yards of him and I can hear the bird from where I was listening. I thought to myself dang I thought I went pretty far away from him. We didn’t end up killing the bird, but when I got home I pulled up google earth and used the distance measuring tool. From where I was listening to where the bird was gobbling on the roost was 1.09 miles. I was amazed. Any of y’all have some long distance gobbling stories?

I can't hear good so this conversation ain't for me

Same

With or without my Tetras?

In the mountains you might hear one 2 miles easy and not hear one 200 yards. Depends on the terra.

MIle or more .
Have had the come at a dead run from that far too .

In the south with high humidity over a mile.

Out west about 2 miles.

Not nearly as far as I used to be able to hear them. And I ain't blaming that on age...I am blaming that on a turkey season that begins 4/1 on the banks of the Mobile delta...

On the fairly flat swamp land I hunt I heard one from .7 miles. I doubted and questioned myself about where I thought he was, but he was gobbling good enough I decided to pick up and move. Got around to him and sure enough he was right where I suspected strutting in a small hay field. Called him straight across and killed him.

Out west I'm going to say it's probably 2 miles plus depending on the wind

I think you meant low humidity.

This is my experience too. About 30 years ago on the Coosa WMA, a cold, still morning, I heard a turkey that I later determined was 2 miles away by looking at the map. I've heard a lot in the range of over a mile. There won't be but a few days in a season where you can hear like that, but when it is cold and still and clear, the sound will really carry. You have to be up very high to get the full effect, and it's also best early in the season when the leaves aren't on the hardwoods.

I can still hear one a good distance in a tree, but the length I can hear one on the ground has gone down a lot. I've noticed lately that I sort of feel the gobble if he is on the ground at distance instead of hearing it. I've heard several this year that I was only 50% sure was a turkey, but then heard him again and confirmed it.

Funny thing up here , after the leaves put on, one on the ground , just over a hill or around the bend may not be heard at 100 yards or so. Gotta slow down and listen close or you flush them.

My hearing sucks so bad that if I hear one I need to sit down right where I am, ha.

the linear side of an acre is 208.7 feet - there are 5280 feet in 1 mile ... doing the math, you'd be able to hear a gobbling bird across 25 acres (with no terrain obstructions, of course)

Depends. Early season and no green up then a long ways. As the season goes on it depends on the terrain. I have had birds a couple hundred yards sound like half a mile away later in the season.

Depends. To me Rios in Texas mesquite were closer than they sounded. But could hear a very long ways at times. Several miles I bet.
No leaves on trees here at the farm, a mile or better. Leaves on the trees less than a mile, maybe closer to a 1/2 mile.

No I meant the humidity is higher here so you can’t hear them at 2 miles like out west. 😉

Years ago, a couple miles when conditions were optimal. Now, pffft. Anytime I take young fellas they tell me about gobbles I never heard. I tell them don't be shy about it.

You young fellas stay away from short barrels and weai ear plugs when you shoot deer. Do it or wish you had.