Louie

Thanks for chiming in and settling some of these questions.

I referred to my Dad in the earlier post. He shoots righthanded and has a lot of hearing loss in his left ear from so muchwaterfowl shooting (among other things), in a blind with other hunters of course.

Tell me if this makes sense. Opening weekend we were hunting together and I killed a bird, so I unloaded my gun to call for him. We do this alot, and I sit about 20 or so yards behind keepingDad between me and the turkey. I got the bird to about 50 yards directly in front of him and I could seethe turkey,but it was in a thick spot andDadcouldn't see him from his location. The bird was gobbling a lot but wouldn't move. I noticed my Dad had his gun pointed about 90 degrees right of where the turkey was. He ended up presenting my Dad a good shot after I stopped calling but Dad didn't see him. Whenthe turkeyleft I asked Dad if he thought the turkey was where he was pointing the gun and he said yes. Dad was dumbfounded when I told him the turkey was really "over there" about 90 degrees left of that point. Since then Dad has told me that turkeys seem to appear left of where he thinks the bird should come from (based on the gobbling), so he now gets his gun up and pointed left of the gobbling bird.

Question#1 - is this inability to pinpoint the direction of sound related to the differential degree of hearing loss in his left ear compared to the right?

Question #2 - He wears hearing aids, and said that the aids block out loud sound like gunshots but not gobbling. He even noted that loud calling will be muted. I wonder if his left hearing aid could be adjusted to help him locate the source of gobbling more accurately?

Thanks,

Mouthcaller