Well Mouthcaller,

I spend countless hours in the field every year, something that is just killing me right now as I'm between times and waiting out a season. I see and hear this drumming all the time and did as well in Florida as most birds only related to the call of drumming.

Last season I sat with Ernie Callendrelli in front of a Camera and we had 3 strutting Toms work from an easy 200 yards in open field. When the birds got to 100yards we and aswell the camera mic could clearly hear the Drumming. I am very very good with yardage and I know the birds were 100 yards easy. I'm not knocking your opinion or your post , only telling what I know is a true fact that I have seen. I have no idea wether you have been in the same circomstances as I have been in some of the cases of turkey hunting but I can only express the knowledge I have seen. I by no means need to misslead anyone in this sport.

As for the drumming of the gobbler , I take the understanding that the sound is from the breast feathers when extracted out from the normal laydown. That I'm not 100% on...BT