Spit and drum
 

How many of yas have experienced a tom spitting and drumming. I love hearing that sound when their in full strut and close.

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I always just thought it was my heart trying to turn over and not hitting on much.

Two springs ago I was almost asleep in the sun at about 9:30 when I heard that sound coming from directly behind me. Talk about a heart racer...

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I love that sound. That means there pretty CLOSE

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Best sound in the spring woods....better have your gun up....I had a conversation one time with a fella who visits this board once inawhile named Denny Gulvas and he'll tell ya as also believe that toms not only communicate vocallyby gobbling but alsoby spitting and drumming especially those old silent suckers who somehow end up with all the ladys...

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i love to hear it........

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I get offended and shoot em for doin it too...

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For some reason I can't hear it. It could be the fact that I have a bad ear which also makes it hard to tell where exactly the gobble was.

I can hear the spit though just no drumming.

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ive had it happen a couple of times, when theyre that close that you can hear that, your doing something right. it gets my heart racin

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I've heard once and it was directly behind me, never heard him gobble or any other indication that he was behind me, other than the drumming. After about 20 minutes of listening to him behind me, I tried to ease around, but of course, you can probably guess what happened next. [&:]

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I've don't hear this much... But I have heard it a couple time... It is a nice sound to hear... You pretty much know the deal when you hear this sound... "he's close":)

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It is one of the coolest sounds in the woods, and it means they are really close. Although it seems like everytime I hear it, it is coming from the direction I wasn't expecting so i guess it is kind of a bitter sweet...

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Years ago, I took my heaviest bird here in NY. That very gobbler come waltzing in from behind me, andstrutted byon myleft side at a distance of 5 feet!! Spitting and drumming all the way in to my decoy set-up approx 20 yards in front of me. Now you have to hear those sounds being made at that close of a distance and trying to keep from moving and your composure at the same time!!![:-]

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I know that feeling maytom.OH what arush. Dont ya just love this sport.

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There is no way I would have survived such a thing. Heart would have up and quit.

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Best sound in the woods, will get my addrenaline going every time. Had a guy one time spaz out after hearing a tukey spit and drum behind us at about 7 yards. He turned around saw the turkey and said in a very loud panicked voice "turkey, big turkey, ... right behind us. Of course the bird jetted. When I asked him why he had talked with a turkey right there he said the sound had scared him. The best was this guy had been braggin how he was some kind of super hunter.

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Last season I was bow hunting fairly close to a paved road, and the birds I had talking since sun up hadn't made a sound for an hour or so. I was just about to pack up when I thought I heard someone driving on the paved road playing music with a lot of bass. I heard it about three or four times before I saw a blue head floating through the grass strait for my decoys. I felt like such an idiot, because it had been so long since I heard one drum that I forgot what it was. Here is a pic of the end result.

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/9/4/3/7/4/webimg/101577292_o.jpg

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Thats when your adrenalin gets flowin' and your heart gets pumpin' and you take the safty off.

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Pffffffffffft! Vrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooom.... Music to my ears!

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I experienced alot of things for the first time in the woods last year, spitting and drumming included.

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First time I heard it I thought it was someone trying over and over to start a car because I was young and I couldnt see them so I didnt put 2 and 2 together for the longest time. Next time I heard it was when I was hunting by myself and was about to take a nap, whenone gobbled about 200 yards away, so I decided to stay awake for a bit. I was sitting in a cutout in a huge brush pile (best blind ever:D), when I see a hen out of the corner of my eye. Then Pffft Vooooooom. Holy.... Got the gun up got him in the sights and BOOM it was all over.