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Coal truck shock gobble

Started by Ohio river tom, March 19, 2016, 09:20:35 AM

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Ohio river tom

 Went this morning to listen to turkeys. 48 deg kinda cold. Coal trucks coming off the mountains was hitting their jake brakes. Every time the trucks would sound off a group off toms would blow the tree tops off. Never thought about a truck engine would make them gobble.

tomstopper

When I was a young teenager, I used to help a farmer that lived up the road and I can remember a time about two weeks before the spring turkey season opened up in PA that we were working on a tractor and was trying to get the tire off it so it could be repaired. It was oxidized to the tractor so I had to get behind the tire and beat on the backside of it with a sledge hammer. After the first or second time I hit it a gobbler began to sound off with each hit of the hammer. That old farmer replied to me that I should come over everyday before the season started and help him work on all his equipment so I could keep tabs on that bird for opening morning..  ;D It did make the hard work a lot easier that day though but I decided it would be easier to just go and hang out in the woods and watch and listen to the birds instead.

owlhoot

 :morning:
Hurry up call makers on OG, we need it now. Make it out of wood please.   

The big callmakers read this and who knows , might be bigger than the squealing hen!!

I know the names they will come up with and the commercials will be annoying  :lol:

wvmntnhick

That's how I used to locate birds in the preseason while hunting a chunk of the club back home. From the top of the mountain you could hear for quite a ways. The birds would gobble as the jake brakes would sound off in the bottom. The terrain was quite steep though and I'm not talking about a little steep. Billy goat steep. It was bad enough that some die hard turkey hunters would think twice about it. I was not that die hard at the time and by so mes standards, may never be.

Got out of the truck at my buddies camp one evening and tried a crow call, owl hoot and turkey yelps thing to get a bird to respond near the camp so we could get him the next morning. No replies so I went to unloading my stuff. Came back out and my buddy said one gobbled when he shut his door. I ran through all the stuff again and still nothing. He opened and shut his door once more. Bird gobbled. I opened and shut mine. Nothing. He repeated again and the bird replied. I told him that it was going to make the morning hunt quite rough for him because if all he was going to answer was the sound of the driver side door slamming shut, it was his door and he was responsible for carrying it to the top of the hill.

TauntoHawk

Hunts a section of public that is boarded by a waste disposal facility. When the trash trucks fire up every morning the birds wake up like clock work. Takes about 20min for all the trucks to get ready and leave makes it easy to located and move in on a bird

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Tom Threetoes

When I worked in the coal mines the toms in the creek bottoms would gobble when the stripping shovel blew it's horn to move up.