Turkey Drumming..... I can’t hear it

[7shooter]

I can hear them drum long ways off but cant hear my wife in the same room, seriously my wife has mentioned numerous times having my hearing checked.

[btomlin]

I can hear them drum long ways off but cant hear my wife in the same room, seriously my wife has mentioned numerous times having my hearing checked.

My wife can hear me start drumming from a ways off..it usually gives her ample opportunity to avoid me.  Lol

[guesswho]

I can hear them drum long ways off but cant hear my wife in the same room, seriously my wife has mentioned numerous times having my hearing checked.

I can save you the Doctors visit.  You have two hearing deficiencies.  #1 is you have selective hearingidis.  And #2 is you have creative hearingidis.  No known cures that I know of.   Same diseases also affects the memory glands, some people are afflicted with both hearingidis's and memoryidis's. 

[RutnNStrutn]

Certain people hear different frequencies better than others. I have tinnitus pretty bad but I can still pick up the spit better than the drum.

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Yep. After 34 years in the fire department, my hearing isn't very good, and my ears constantly ring with tinnitus. With that said, if I can hear drumming he's close!! But I don't ever hear the spit, just the drumming.

Sent from deep in the woods where the critters roam.

[7shooter]

I can hear them drum long ways off but cant hear my wife in the same room, seriously my wife has mentioned numerous times having my hearing checked.

I can save you the Doctors visit.  You have two hearing deficiencies.  #1 is you have selective hearingidis.  And #2 is you have creative hearingidis.  No known cures that I know of.   Same diseases also affects the memory glands, some people are afflicted with both hearingidis's and memoryidis's.

lol

[MDSTRUTNRUT]

Only hear it if they are in VERY CLOSE like 30 yards. Wife gets tired of repeating herself, ringing in ears gets worse every year so hearing aids prob coming soon.    Hunt mostly with my adult kids so depend on their much better hearing on long range stuff.   Most likely too much 70's rocknroll and shooting guns without hearing protection.

[Howie g]

I normally can hear it before others that hunt with me . I hope my hearing doesn't start failing me like my eye sight is ... wearing glasses while in woods suuuucks !

[Cut N Run]

I'm sorry & saddened for those who can't hear drumming.  It is without a doubt my favorite sound on the planet (with the sound of a bra being unhooked being a close second).  I heard it the first time I ever went turkey hunting from a gobbler putting on a show.  Didn't know what it was, but I realized it was from the gobbler because it was happening the same time his low breast feathers were rippling.

I have heard drumming many times long after a gobble when drumming was the only clue he was close by. My high-pitch hearing is bad, but I pick up low frequency at great distance (mostly helicopters, diesel engines down shifting, & gobbler's drumming) for some reason.  Drumming translates to "Take the safety off" in my book, because he's close.

Jim

[ShootingABN!]

I have tinnitus in both ears. However I'm still blessed that I can hear the Drumming of the wild turkey.

Last year hunting with Shane Simpson and his daughter Brooke. We had a gobbler so close. It felt like it rattled my insides! I could feel it in my chest. Kinda like those MTX Blue Thunder speakers I had in my Ford Ranger, LOL

I'm surprised that it wasn't picked up on the audio. None the less. I'm thankful to God for giving me the experience to share the woods with such great people. I'll never forget those hunts.

God bless y'all and stay safe out there.

[Turkeyman]

Although I've never heard of anyone checking drumming with a frequency meter it sounds around 50Hz to me...just a bit less than a power transformer. So, if you can hear the transformer you should be able to hear drumming...now it's just a matter of the volume. I've verified via rangefinder that I can hear drumming at least 75 yards. As others, when I first started turkey hunting I heard drumming but didn't know what it was...leaving some birds I'm sure. Now I concentrate to hear it.

[Flgobbler]

I can always hear them spit but the drumming is so hard to hear..

[blake_08]

I can't hear the spit unless they're really really close, the drum i can hear from quite a ways away. Probably 100 yards or so.

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[WildTigerTrout]

At one time I could hear both the spit and drum but hearing loss due to military service has changed that.  My ears ring ALL the time now.  Not sure I could hear it at this point in my life.  I am positive I will be a good candidate for hearing aids down the road.

[redleg06]

I can hear it well... Not able to tell where it's really coming from in most cases. It's almost like I feel it more than hear it, if that makes any sense.  Definitely hunted with others who never can hear it but it seems like most can, as long as they are listening for it.

[Gawhitaker]

My 23 yr old son can pick it up, i'm 59 and no longer can.