LOLLLLL. I was in the woods this morning, about 150 yards from back road and I heard the neighbor who walks in the morning sneeze real loud and a Tom let out with a gobble. He sneezed again and he hammered again. I so badly wanted to start sneezing. Someone needs to make a sneeze call, or I guess I'll carry pepper with me. Anyone else heard toms gobble at crazy things?
Was hunting one morning this year and someone that lives behind the property I hunt started blowing their horn. Every time they blew the horn the turkey hammered. He must have gobbled like 20 times.
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"Hurry up Johnny, your going to be late for the bus."
I called that turkey around the house, through their yard to a sewer ROW. Urban turkeys are the loudest "ambient noise" turkeys I have ever hunted by far. So many noises.
Had one Gobble at some guys that were shingling a house about half a mile away,every time they would hit that airgun he would gobble until he followed a hen off to try and impress her.
Greg
Sometimes hunt across a bean field next to a rural elementary school. They broadcast the morning announcements over the loudspeakers on the playground....the gobblers cant stand it when little Timmy gets called to the principles office!
I heard a bird gobbling to a donkey braying this year. The bird gobbled about 3 times before the donkey finished his sequence. I got a chuckle out of it.
I was hunting close to where they were doing road repair every time the door slammed down on the dump truck he would gobble.
Artillery Fire
During deer season where I'm from you'll hear them gobble every now and then. Had one show up in a food plot while I was hunting one evening. The night before I had enchiladas the wife made. I was in a box stand about 5 foot off the ground and the turkey walked to within 10 yards of me. I was sitting in a metal folding chair and I ripped a good one. The turkey gobbled and I just about ruined a good set of hunting pants because I was laughing so hard..
A lawn mower hitting gravel. Every time they would make that pass in their driveway and hit that patch of gravel he'd gobble. I kept slipping closer and closer till knew dang near the tree he was in. Was a very quick hunt the next morning!
Quote from: gatrapper on May 05, 2021, 12:10:27 PM
Artillery Fire
surprisingly I did not experience this, I hunted in Hopkinsville Kentucky two weeks ago and they were going like crazy on the army base. You could feel it in your chest every time it would boom, I was shocked that nothing gobbled to it I would have thought every bird in the county would have busted off to it.
Me sneezing
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I hunt a wma that is on the back side of a small town that the bird only seem to shock gobble to is donkeys or when the fire truck and ambulance sirens when they get called out of the substation.
I was roosting birds a couple of weeks ago. This guy quarter mile away was working on his truck. He would rev it up and then let off. The gobbler would gobble at it.
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This year , had a tom with a twelve inch beard gobble at my foot splash water
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This year , had a tom with a twelve inch beard gobble at my foot splash water
I had one gobble at me when I stepped off the road and crunched some dry leaves. He hammered and I found a quick set up and had him flipping in just a few minutes. He was hot!
ME CALLING ... :TooFunny:
Buddy of my nephew takes a rubber mallet and hits those metal guard rails along the side of the road. He swears any bird in ear shot will gobble.
I had a bird on the roost gobble when a harley davidson was driving up a steep hill he gobbled once, then when the harley was going down the other side of the hill he gobbled. Those 2 gobbles where just enough for me to get close to him. I got him about 45 minutes latter.
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An 18 wheeler hauling a dozer. Every time he let off the air brakes a couple toms would fire off.
Joey Blackburn's calling
Chainsaw from a nearby road crew.
Backup alarm on a D9 Cat. Best locator call I know of. Just can't figure out how to carry one when I hunt.
I had 2 jakes at 3yds no lie shock gobble to a fart
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Dynamite shot on a coal strip mine.
Empty tri-axle dump trucks going over a little bridge that made the bed slam and boom.
One more. I pulled a cold one out of my ice chest. When the ice fell back in its place he gobbled at. He was that close to my truck on side of the road.
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ME CALLING ... :TooFunny:
Now, that's funny, right there !!!
I don't care WHO ya are.......... THAT'S FUNNY !!!!
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I repeatedly yelled "Whose your daddy" at a strutting Merriam's gobbler at the entrance to the Crazy Horse monument a few years ago. He'd gobble every time!
Quote from: gatrapper on May 05, 2021, 12:10:27 PM
Artillery Fire
I often hunt Camp Lejeune in NC and when they start firing the birds go quiet. However, Fort Stewart GA they gobble hard at Artillery.
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Behind my house one gobbled when I was dumping dry cat food on an aluminum extension ladder rail when I couldn't find their food dish. They got fed well that day lol
Fire Siren on roof of Fire Station.
A jackass braying in a nearby pasture.
This wasn't a one time thing, it happened almost every morning that I hunted that property.
If the jack brayed, the turkey gobbled and vice versa, if the turkey gobbled, the jack would bray. It was like they were saying good morning to each other.
I've heard them at work gobble when the trash man emptied the dumpster, every time he slammed the can, the turkeys would gobble.
Years ago when I was working nights in the strip mines loading coal I had a little time between trucks so I drove down to the end of the pit. It was turkey season about 4:30- 5:00 AM so I shut the loader off to listen and the big shovel blew it's horn to move up and a gobbler sounded off.
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A jackass braying in a nearby pasture.
This wasn't a one time thing, it happened almost every morning that I hunted that property.
If the jack brayed, the turkey gobbled and vice versa, if the turkey gobbled, the jack would bray. It was like they were saying good morning to each other.
I've heard them at work gobble when the trash man emptied the dumpster, every time he slammed the can, the turkeys would gobble.
Haha I've never noticed a donkey braying at a turkey, but they'll make the birds gobble sometimes around here. I always stop and listen when I hear a donkey. One morning this year they were gobbling on the roost at a really loud donkey and a rooster crowing.
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Heard one Gobble after a Mule started hee-hawing this morning.
Greg
Guy down the road from where I hunt always has Bantam chickens, (Always thought they were called banny chickens til I went to check my spelling for this) for some reason one year he got some Road Island Red chickens instead, the turkey would never sound off at the Bantam chickens crowing but he sure did that one year the guy had Road Island Reds. Must have been change in the pitch of the crow I guess.
Also closing the heavy gate door at the end of the driveway to get in/out if shut hard.
Cows / mules / roosters / wood duck whistles / coyote howl / geese /
Coon squawling / to name a few ... oh and sadly , feeders going off !!!
Everything already stated here and a couple more. Located a Tom shock gobbling at a dump trucks gate banging from nearby road work. Called him up and promptly missed him. Have had a roosted tom gobble at a loud fart before. Didn't get him either.
V-22 Osprey.
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Just happened last Thursday. I took my 5 yr old son Rett hunting with me for the first time. We got on a gobbler on the roost and got in really tight. I told Rett he had to be super quiet and super still as I could see the bird on the limb. I guess for a 5 yr old that's no easy feat. The bird stayed on the limb a little longer than normal and Rett was starting to fidget. I reassured him the bird was close and pleaded him not to move or talk above a whisper. The bird pitched down, landed at 40 yds and I shot him at 18 yds about 30 seconds later. One of my fastest hunts ever, but for Rett it had taken an eternity. As soon as the gun roared, Rett was ready to talk, he was pumped up and turned in to a little blabber box. As we were walking out and maybe half way back to the truck Rett was still talking and as he said something loudly in his high pitched 5 yr old voice a bird thundered on a bench 150 yds below us. Rett's eyes got big and he grinned ear to ear.
Hunting in Virginia once and was hearing some hammering at a nearby house. I kept thinking I heard gobbling when I heard the hammering.
Started working my way closer and sure enough every time they hammered he gobbled. I got about 125 yards from him and proceeded to call him right in and shoot him at 25 yards.