...when one can't possibly be near? I'm sitting here in the house researching what I want to plant in the garden this spring, its 10:30 at night, and the house is quiet. A dog barks down the road and for a split second, my instinct takes over, my head snaps up, and my mind identifies it as a gobble. Then reasoning takes over and I think I'm loosing it. Do you have yourself so tuned to listen for a gobble that you subconsciously identify sounds as a gobble in unlikely situations? Or is dementia creeping up on me? :z-dizzy: ;D
Absolutely!! I hear them when woodpeckers bang a tree, dogs bark, and even birds sing. Not so much in the winter, but all spring long. My heartbeat increases until I talk myself down.
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Yeah. and it gets worse the closer to spring it gets......Danny
Quote from: danny on December 12, 2013, 09:01:58 AM
Yeah. and it gets worse the closer to spring it gets......Danny
Totally agree!!I live in town and when i'm out in the yard and hear some crows near the park or a train whistle I always find myself looking up and listening for a gobble.Its a sickness and I hope i'm never cured!!!
Squirrel's barking sounds like yelping too. :funnyturkey:
all the time! no what what season, when a crow caws my ears perk waiting for a gobble to follow. not to worry its just one of the symptoms of the affliction ;D
all the time. hahaha
It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.
Quote from: Gooserbat on December 12, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.
A few of my "infected" friends have various gobbling/yelping ringtones for when they call me. That really gets me going . . .
Quote from: Gooserbat on December 12, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.
I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter
Quote from: va wingbone on December 12, 2013, 03:33:14 PM
Quote from: Gooserbat on December 12, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.
I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter
Go to public land in Oklahoma/Kansas on opening weekend! After that the hunting is pretty good . . .
I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter
Not claiming to be "elite" or better than anybody,but this is why deer hunting has become more of a social sport for me and less of a hunting addiction.Almost anybody can sit somewhere and eventually shoot a deer,or luck into one;happens every year.Dont get me wrong,not bashing deer hunters/hunting,I enjoy it also.It just doesnt have the addiction factor as does turkey hunting.Ever seen a diehard deer hunter standing in his yard talking with his buddies and say "hey listen,was that a deer gruntin' ".Die hard turkey hunters are a sick, certifiable group of individuals :character0029:
Problem is that usually when I think I hear one gobble it usually is a turkey gobble.
TRKYHTR
All the time it happens to us all
Quote from: jakesdad on December 12, 2013, 04:38:01 PM
I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter
Not claiming to be "elite" or better than anybody,but this is why deer hunting has become more of a social sport for me and less of a hunting addiction.Almost anybody can sit somewhere and eventually shoot a deer,or luck into one;happens every year.Dont get me wrong,not bashing deer hunters/hunting,I enjoy it also.It just doesnt have the addiction factor as does turkey hunting.Ever seen a diehard deer hunter standing in his yard talking with his buddies and say "hey listen,was that a deer gruntin' ".Die hard turkey hunters are a sick, certifiable group of individuals :character0029:
you're right, I may be wrong but I feel the same about the guys who sit in a blind over a chufa field for 7 hours and kill a gobbler that feeds past, and because they yelped 4 hours earlier they " called" him in. No way they have the illness
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Yup, and I don't ever want to change it!
"Heard" one twice yesterday evening while deer hunting. Weird feeling when your heart starts to race a little while your brain is telling you it can't be.
Happens all the time. Sometimes I actually hear them in my mind.
Ahhh only 5 months until may.
ALL THE TIME!! Spring can't come soon enough!!
x2 :funnyturkey: