What are the most individual birds you've ever heard gobble from one location?
Some will think I'm stretching the truth, but I heard right at 30 different birds sound off from one location in the same morning. Only once and I didn't even know there were that many birds on the property. The timber company that owned the land was spraying BASF on the planted pine seedling to control the broadleaf plants.....and every time the helicopter would bank to make another pass, the birds would hammer. The chopping sound of the helo made them crazy that morning. I hung in there because I had 3 long beards interrested in my calls and thought they were coming in. Then the pilot needed to refill the herbicide and landed in a green field behind the birds and I don't know where they went after that. I really can't make this stuff up either. ::)
Not from a state with a lot of woods to hold that many Birds, the most I ever heard was around 18, and that was from a youth camp that hunting wasn't allowed. Them birds would never leave that area either to the Public next door. I finally gave up trying to coax them my direction.
Quote from: Gobbling Buck on February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AM
What are the most individual birds you've ever heard gobble from one location?
Some will think I'm stretching the truth, but I heard right at 30 different birds sound off from one location in the same morning. Only once and I didn't even know there were that many birds on the property. The timber company that owned the land was spraying BASF on the planted pine seedling to control the broadleaf plants.....and every time the helicopter would bank to make another pass, the birds would hammer. The chopping sound of the helo made them crazy that morning. I hung in there because I had 3 long beards interrested in my calls and thought they were coming in. Then the pilot needed to refill the herbicide and landed in a green field behind the birds and I don't know where they went after that. I really can't make this stuff up either. ::)
I don't doubt you at all, but when you stated you heard right at 30, how are you sure it wasn't 31 or 32, etc? I'm not really questioning you, I am truly wondering how you could count that many gobbles so specifically.
Quote from: FireFly908 on February 23, 2011, 08:09:31 AM
Quote from: Gobbling Buck on February 23, 2011, 02:27:09 AM
I don't doubt you at all, but when you stated you heard right at 30, how are you sure it wasn't 31 or 32, etc? I'm not really questioning you, I am truly wondering how you could count that many gobbles so specifically.
The area I had set up was a head of timber that came out into a clear cut. The terrain is very hilly and there are several draws that held trees large enough for the birds to roost. They were long thin strips of timber and were basically 360 degrees around me......and being in a clear cut, you can hear a gobble a long ways off. When the helo would bank and chop the air, they would just start one right after the other.....now there very well could have been several gobbles from some of the same birds, but it was one of the most impressive gobbling mornings I've ever heard or heard of, and that was my best estimate of what I was hearing. I was just kinda' wondering if anyone else has ever had a similar experience with anything that made birds sound off like mad.
23 and that was on public land. Havent been back in 6 or 7 years. The birds just vanished ??? We had it to ourselves so it wasnt because of other hunters. Always heard at least 8 or 10 there. Got to hunt 1 place with a friend last year and heard about 20. It was hard to get them all counted cause when one would gobble the others would cut in.
Heres a pic from where we would listen from. We would hike to the top of the mountain and get upon this cliff edge and listen. Hardest part was figuring out which one we wanted to go after.
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Quote from: turkey_slayer on February 23, 2011, 09:32:49 AM
Heres a pic from where we would listen from. We would hike to the top of the mountain and get upon this cliff edge and listen. Hardest part was figuring out which one we wanted to go after.
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g217/nate121080/HighTree002.jpg)
Right there is more woods than in our whole state :TooFunny:
Just before daylight on top of a mountain here in WV on the right morning you can hear birds from all points of the compass.
5 is the most I have ever heard from one spot.
Way too many to count on a hunt in Texas. They'd start at one end of the ranch and gobbles would ring out in a wave along the entire length of the river all the way to the other end of the ranch. No possibly way to count the amount of birds but I'd be willing to bet it was 40+.
As far as public land goes...I have heard around 12 in both MO and FL.
Most I ever heard in one spot was in the Quachita National Forest in Arkansas bout 5-6 yrs ago. I can't tell you an exact # but anywhere from 12-15 probably. UNREAL!!!
in PA and NY 8-10 is going to be a fantastic property and morning
Probablly 15-20 all lined up on one ridge. That hunt didnt last very long.
13 twice.....once in WV and once in GA
15 atleast in missouri on a river bank.
We used to own a place in the TX hill country (right in the middle of Rio country) and it was absolutely ridiculous how many turkey were out there. You almost had to try NOT to kill one.
Anyhow, we had a creek bottom out there that was particularly good as a roost area and one morning I got out (about a 7 hour drive from our house to the ranch) and hadnt been able scout the day before obviously, I got out set up and let things get quite in the dark.... I started to wonder if I had picked the right spot and all the sudden I heard a lone gobble go off and immidiately followed by what must have been 30-40 more birds right behind that.
My Brother in law was with me (first time hunting texas rios) and he's a big turkey hunter also but in his home state of Alabama and the look on his face cant be described. Kid on Christmas cant even begin to tell the story... :z-guntootsmiley:
We sold that place about 5 years ago (my dads property and i had no say) and every spring I regret it.
Quote from: deerhunt1988 on February 23, 2011, 03:19:49 PM
Way too many to count on a hunt in Texas. They'd start at one end of the ranch and gobbles would ring out in a wave along the entire length of the river all the way to the other end of the ranch. No possibly way to count the amount of birds but I'd be willing to bet it was 40+.
This is exactly the situation we had. We had a creek bottom and in west tx, those trees on the creeks are alot of times, the only spots you have good roost trees and the turkey population being what it is in some spots out in that area....it can be ridiculous.
The creek ran the length of our property (1600 acres) and in relatively wide open country, you can hear for a long long way on a still morning.
Its hard for people to believe how many turkey you can find yourself in the middle of if you havent personally experienced it. Absolutely incredible.
On one of my very first hunts in northern Missouri, back in the late '80's, I listened over a big river bottom, and I heard birds gobble for what seemed like miles in either direction. I have no idea how many were actually there, but it sounded like hundreds. In reality, it was probably somewhere in the 30-50 range. Either way, I just remember standing there, completely awestruck. I had no clue where to start...or even what to do once I got started. :)
On a sad note, probably due to several consecutive years of flooding, that particular farm has been gobble-free the last couple of times I've tried to hunt there. :(
The most I ever heard was at a farm I was hunting in Allen Co. KY. I was hunting a river bottom and on the other side of the river was a bluff with just enough slope to have trees up and down. Just as soon as it was starting to set enough light to see a coyote was walking by and let out howl. Man did those trees come alive there was constant gobbling and yelping for 20 mins. Now I can not say for sure how many gobblers there was but this happened during our October turkey season, but I did have 75 hens fly down into the bottom field I was hunting. The gobblers stayed on the other side of the river and I could never get a good view of them. That was music to any turkey hunters ear to hear all them birds going off at the same time.
Here at home to hear a few is a big deal.
Years ago in Texas down along a dry river bed I heard more gobblers than I've ever heard in my life at once...I could sky the birds as it was getting light and it looked like a turkey fruit tree.
It could have been a dozen or it could have been 20 gobblers. all right together in 3 different trees along with a bunch of hens
The next (last morning) day I worked in within 70 yards before it got light and had one of the most memorable momments ever.
Had 7 gobblers pitch down and landed literally all around me and almost on me....nothing but spitting and drumming and really a sur real experience. You could never have filmed it but being there was incredible...I waited until the very last one wlked off and shot him when the others were out of sight...they gobbled and I stayed put for another 45 minutes and then got my bird
I'd have to say 20to 30 one morning on some in Iowa. It was phenominal. I've never heard gobbling like that before, and haven't come close since.
Couldn't say. When you get on top of these mountains in east KY you can hear birds miles away and birds on all sides some times gobbling at the same time. You just have to pick the one you think is closest and go.
Haven`t been at this but 3 years, heard 7 or 8 in same spot a time or 2. Thought I was in the turkey capitol of the world. You guys busted my bubble!!!!! :gobble:
Somewhere between 10-15 here in MN.
I was hunting in north west nebraska last spring and we had 25 gobblers,25 or 30 jakes and twice that many hens all mingling around us at daylight.We putem to bed the night before opener and i told my buddy to video it. We walked down past a barn on the property and i let out a beller with my voice and the woods and canyon came alive, it was awseome.The next morning is when we got a count ofem.Hell of a show is a understatement.The jakes would team up on the gobblers and then run off and come back.Hens were sounding off actually they would get nerve racking. The hunt didnt last long. It was private land also.
In kentucky where i hunt i have heard 10 gobblers in one area about 500 yrds from me.I dont hunt it cuz my other nieghbor hunts it so i let him have it.Every now and then i will venture over there across the lake but for the most part i let him have at it.Every year though i have a couple that roost in the woods where i hunt and i can callem across the lake so i dont worry bout getting a bird.
somewhere between 18-25 down a LONG ridge i hunt in TN that borders up to a river. it is an awesome sound. been hunting it for 9 years and have yet to go out there and not hear a gobble in the morning.
The most I ever heard at fly down time was 13. The place was loaded with birds and soon loaded with hunters :'(
30-40 early season in Nebraska they would gobble in waves. Pretty awesome!
I heard 9 one morning from the top of a little hill and that was after the woods started getting thick
I counted 17 one morning in South Alabama. It could have been more but I know that there was at least that many.
1 But then I have only been twice, But going to Kansas this Spring, So I am hoping to here alot.
somewhere between 15-20. they were all so close together it was hard to count exactly how many there were