?can you tell a jakes gobble,from a longbeard?

[totoe]

..Ive been at this for 26 plus years,some say they can tell a jakes gobble
from a longbeard,but im hear to tell ya dont count on it,you can dispute
if you like,but i killed lots of what others thought were jakes turned out
to be longbeards,so i never say (hey i hear a jake gobbling) for me i leave
that up to the experts...so can you tell a jakes gobble............

[huntnma]

i dont......if i can see that long beard or the tail feathers , then i' ll know , but i will never judge by a gobble.......

[Turk_man]

I can`t, The bird with the shortest highest pitched gobble I ever heard turned out to be my biggest bird to-date.

[wacker]

Nope,sometimes I hear one gobble funny and I think it might be a jake but I never know for sure.

[bogobble]

IMO, and from my experience , most of the time, a high pitched gobble, will be a jake. but not always. my son' s first turkey was a jake, and I would have sworn he was the king of the hill from the tone of his gobble.

[Adrian J Hare]

I don' t believe that anyone can tell the difference between the two. I will be the first to say that sometimes other then with the broke up gobble of the jake I have a good idea it was a Jake but at most times I can not tell...BT

[Bobgobble2]

Tot,anytime someone tells me they hunted a longbeard all mornin and never seen em but the bird gobbled good tells me alot of how much experience they have huntin turks!!!!Only thing I can say is a longbeard often times can carry his obbles a little longer than a jake!!But to be able to judge a mature tom from a jake by his gobbles on a consistent basis takes something more than I' ve been able to figure out!!

[nate121080]

alot of times it is hard to tell. I' ve been fooled alot. But every now and then you' ll hear one do a jake yelp and throw in a short terrible gobble. Only when they do that can i tell.

[Lefty Llewellyn]

I' ve thought about this question a lot because I' ve called in my share of jakes. I' ve often thought the lower the gobble the better chance it is a long beard but I' ve only noticed a difference when you have one mature tom gobbling with another jake or two, often on the roost at first light.

Could I hear a gobble and ever say " that is a jake?" Probably never. I' ll stick with assuming they' re all long beards until I have them close enough to check out their beard and fan.

[loner]

THE ONLY TRUE TEST OF A JAKE GOBBLE THAT I HAVE HEARD IS WHEN HE SOUNDS LIKE A DOG BARK.IT WILL ALWAYS BE A JAKE.IF HE TRULY GOBBLES,HE SOUNDS LIKE A MATURE BIRD BUT COMES IN VERY QUICKLY AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO TELL FROM MATURE BIRD UNTIL HE IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO SEE HIS BEARD.BE CAREFUL I HAVE HAD " FLASH" HUNTS ESPECIALLY AT MIDDAY THAT WERE MATURE BIRDS.