Does anyone have a link to this?
Found an old thread with a soundcloud audio but still unable to play it,even after downloading the SoundCloud app.
What is a bubble cluck? If a hen made one, I am sure I have heard it, but I just don't understand the newfangled nomenclature.
It is a soft watery sounding cluck.
Look up Scott Ellis. He does it, even shows how he gets it w diaphragm
I've seen many of Scott's videos, been working on the whine or wavy call.
I have not seen his bubble cluck video yet, but will try to find it.
I watched one of Ellis's videos. I think you are talking of what Ike Ashby called a pee-o pee-o call and what Kenny Morgan called a wavey-singy sound. Both are contentment sounds.
Quote from: silvestris on February 07, 2018, 06:37:37 PM
I watched one of Ellis's videos. I think you are talking of what Ike Ashby called a pee-o pee-o call and what Kenny Morgan called a wavey-singy sound. Both are contentment sounds.
The "bubble cluck" is a soft hollow cluck that sounds a lot like a drop of water hitting the surface...like a soft (bloop)
What your talking about is a different feeding/contientment call that many hunters have different names for. I have heard Brad Ferris do it well and referred to it as his woo woo call.
Now I consider myself decent with a diaphragm and I can make a bubble cluck ok but the other "wavy, pee-o pee-o, woo woo" name it what you wish but I cant make it to save my life. I can replicate it decent on a pot but not by mouth. Ive seen a lot of guys that can and it drives me nuts trying.
Quote from: born2hunt on October 23, 1974, 08:15:23 PM
The "bubble cluck" is a soft hollow cluck that sounds a lot like a drop of water hitting the surface...like a soft (bloop)
This is probably the best description of the sound as any I've seen. I agree with silvestris that calling it a "bubble cluck" is a new phenomenon,...us old-timers were obviously not that creative. ;D
I have always called it the "curiosity/aggravation" cluck. The reason being that the times I hear it are when a turkey is approaching my calling and gets to a point where it thinks it should be able to see the source of the calling. As my name for it implies, at first the turkey is curious as to why it can't see the other turkey, but then becomes aggravated that it can't.
I actually consider the sound to be the very first stages of "putting". The turkey is concerned about a situation where it can hear a turkey but can't see it. The longer that situation lasts, the more the sound escalates from that of curiosity,...to aggravation,...and eventually to full-blown "this ain't right and I'm getting the heck out of dodge" alarm putting.
I have also discovered that learning how to make the sound accurately and returning it to any turkey that starts it will often settle them down enough to come on over and take a closer look at the source. I consider it to be a very valuable call to be able to reproduce.
As far as reproducing the sound goes, it is pretty difficult for all but the very best callers,...and most of us are not them. However, this is what I discovered for myself. I can make a pretty accurate "bubble cluck" with my voice just by popping my lips open with a small burst of air forced out of my mouth. If you can't do it well with a mouth call (or other), try it,... a little practice and you should be able to do it.
I hear it most often while they're still on the limb.