Hi members-new here and was wondering if anyone else here ever heard this call. I have heard (something) just once. Around 1995- I was Spring turkey hunting at the old Wanaque Wildlife Management Area in New Jersey. I was just south of New York where I live. Now in Sterling Forest State Park,Wanaque, Ringwood State Park, etc-- there are these HUGE boulders in open parklike hardwoods. I was easing along slowly and passed one of these boulders and there stood a gobbler- no more then 8 feet away!! He started to gobble and made me a 1/3 of the way through!! It sounded like -Gobbleeaahhhhhhhhh. Almost like a scream on the end. I was so rattled- that I did not get a shot off. There are so many veterans here and on Gobbler Nation where I might post this also. Do members here think this is an alarm call for a predator that is super close? I have only heard this that one time.
Just a gobble that was close. I have had them rattle me to my core when gobbling right behind or in front of me.
The fact is that turkeys sometimes make noises that are unusual, someone hears it, gives it a name, and all of a sudden we have a new turkey vocalization. If the person that hears it has some level of notoriety as a turkey hunter, then the new call name is even that much more valid and authoritative.
The problem is that these rarely heard sounds are so rarely heard by the masses that no one really knows what they are, so we end up with all this speculation as to what a certain turkey noise is supposed to sound like. We just recently had this same discussion on another thread about the "quaver" or "quavey".
It is like people spreading a rumor down the line. After a while, nobody really knows what the truth is, or even what the original story was about. Same with turkey calls. What people call one thing on one end of the country is what the guys on the other side call something else.
Now, back to the original question. I have heard multiple gobblers on two different occasions make sounds on the roost in the morning that I can only describe as being similar to an owl hoot, but not quite. Were these the mysterious and elusive "wildcat calls"? It's anybody's guess!
Quote from: GobbleNut on March 07, 2016, 09:27:09 AM
The fact is that turkeys sometimes make noises that are unusual, someone hears it, gives it a name, and all of a sudden we have a new turkey vocalization. If the person that hears it has some level of notoriety as a turkey hunter, then the new call name is even that much more valid and authoritative.
The problem is that these rarely heard sounds are so rarely heard by the masses that no one really knows what they are, so we end up with all this speculation as to what a certain turkey noise is supposed to sound like. We just recently had this same discussion on another thread about the "quaver" or "quavey".
It is like people spreading a rumor down the line. After a while, nobody really knows what the truth is, or even what the original story was about. Same with turkey calls. What people call one thing on one end of the country is what the guys on the other side call something else.
Now, back to the original question. I have heard multiple gobblers on two different occasions make sounds on the roost in the morning that I can only describe as being similar to an owl hoot, but not quite. Were these the mysterious and elusive "wildcat calls"? It's anybody's guess!
Quote from: GobbleNut on March 07, 2016, 02:30:55 PM
Gave away a couple of used mouth calls just a couple of days ago,...I had swallowed them both and couldn't use them myself anymore...
:newmascot: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :newmascot:
Well I think that solves the mystery right there. :toothy12: