Can't hear em drum

[fantail]

I'm always hearing people talk about hearing turkeys spit and drum. I can hear them spit but I hear no drumming. I was watching a show one time when the narrator said you can hear this turkey drumming, so I turned the volume all the way up and nothing! A few years ago I had to borrow some money from the bank (try to avoid doing this if possible) when the guy giving me the loan started talking turkey and he said he could hear them drum 70 yards out but his huntin buddy couldn't hear them at all. I'm thinking maybe this is a frequency that is impossible for some to hear but I don't know.

water U thinkin

[JW]

it is a really low frequency - I have gone sorta deaf and thus purchased a pair of Walker Game Muffs......best money ever spent cause once yo hear drummin' you won't forget it!

JW

[fantail]

I have a pair of the walkers muffs but haven't used them for turkey huntin yet. I also have bad hearing. Lost most of the hearing in my left ear when I was a kid.

[Arrowmaster]

I can hear them drum but I cant hear my wife sometimes hahahahaha

[one on one]

when a turkey is in kinda close, i'd say 20yds or less, and may or may no be gobblin, he'll drum, usually when you hear the spit, you'll hear the drum, killed a turkey last year, that came in spitting and drumming, never gobbled once, the one i was callin was about 30yds out, (no shot). get a turkey video and listen to it, you may be hearing it, and not know it. (aaaaawesome sound). good luck.

[RIStrutStopper]

ORIGINAL: Arrowmaster

I can hear them drum but I cant hear my wife sometimes hahahahaha

I hear that!

[ranchand99]

ORIGINAL: Arrowmaster

I can hear them drum but I cant hear my wife sometimes hahahahaha

Mine says I'm deaf,but I can hear a twig snap 100yds away,and hear water drip off of deer hooves as they slip through it.

I also can hear the drumming about 65-75yds or so.Depending on how windy it is.It is very low pitched.It sounds like a car stereo's bass way off,or like a log truck in granny gear..in the distance.When I think I hear drumming....It usually means Iam hearing it.

My wife couldn't hear the bird she shot doing it when I could,but she heard it when he was 25yds away.I don't usually hear the spit unless he's about 35-40yds.It's just a humming sound in your head,I don't know how else to describe it.Some birds spit without drumming,some even make a little hissing sound while they are breathing in air.I know a few other people that also can't hear it.

When a bird goes quiet,and then a few minutes later your ears feel like they are vibrating..that's him,and he's coming in.Get ready!

[ultimag]

when you hear those sounds there REAL CLOSE that will get your adrenaline flowing

[Fullback24]

I believe that this sound is audible from distances further away than alot of people think. I've heard numerous times "when you hear him drumming, it's time to shoot"....well that isn't necessarily the case, in my opinion....but I have a reasoning.

I'm also a bluegrass musician, I play the upright bass. As soon as you walk into the gates of a bluegrass festival or fiddlers convention, and see some band jamming off in the field.....the first thing you can hear is the bass, but up close with all the other instruments together, there is a blend.......but you get back off from the band and you'll hear the bass above the banjo(which is obnoxious loud anyways), guitar, etc.....

I think the drumming of a turkey is similar, however, and I have been guilty as well, of not listening for it......one of my problems in hunting turkeys was that I used to not trust what I heard and disregard it......however, now, I listen for drumming as much as I listen for the gobble......and like menioned earlier, it sounds similar to far off distant bass of car, but WITH ONLY ONE NOTE....

[Rob/PA Bowyer]

I've heard them drum many occassions but I'll tell you when I'm behind the camera, that little bit of camera noise totally drowns out the drumming. The people I'm with would talk about hearing them drum and I'd say I didn't hear it because of that little camera hum...like what was, they're close when your hearing it..

Last year, opening day I had one spit'n and drum'n off my left ear so close my eardrum was vibrating....I was so scared of turning to look in fear of spooking him off...he circled a knoll and came right to me where the shooter couldn't see him....it was exciting, he ended up moving off and we reset up on him and called another in for the first spring bird for this particular shooter.