DRUMMING QUESTION!!!!

[supremepredator]

If you ever hear it one time and know for sure that's what it is. You'll hear it more often. To me its more of a sound you feel if that makes sense.

100% agree. One time this season I heard one drum over 200 yards away in fully greened up woods! How do I know it was over 200? My buddy shot him and told me where he was. I only heard him drum that far away because I had sat down and was listening very hard and could barely hear/feal it.

[drenalinld]

https://soundcloud.com/drenalinld/vocal-drumming-attempt

This is my feeble attempt at replicating spit and drum with my voice.

When you learn recognize it you will be surprised how much you hear it. Then you start hearing it in the wind, at work in your sleep.... I need a therapist!

[singlestrand]

I can hear them spit but I cant hear them drum.

[stinkpickle]

That sound just haunts me.  I think I hear it every time somebody revs a truck in the distance.  Even worse, there's some kinda bird that does the spit just like a turkey, and I get an unnecessary adrenaline rush.  This kinda crap is the reason I go back year after year, and I hate that it makes me do it.  It's soooo frustrating, sometimes...but I keep chasing that dream that THIS time it's actually a gobbler.   

[DumpTruckTurkey]

That sound just haunts me.  I think I hear it every time somebody revs a truck in the distance.  Even worse, there's some kinda bird that does the spit just like a turkey, and I get an unnecessary adrenaline rush.  This kinda crap is the reason I go back year after year, and I hate that it makes me do it.  It's soooo frustrating, sometimes...but I keep chasing that dream that THIS time it's actually a gobbler.

Great thread!

It actually made me finally join this site!  Been lurking for years.

I killed my 20th longbeard this year after 4 hunts chasing him around.  I finally killed him by getting tight to his roost tree and NOT calling until he hit the ground.  I named him the Dump Truck Turkey after the 2nd or 3rd hunt... it seems he was possibly drumming WHILE he was gobbling?  I dont know.. ive set up on a ton of birds over the last 10 years but this bird was different.  It sounds like a dump truck taking off, about to catch 2nd gear while he was gobbling!  It was so loud!  Ive come to realize some birds have distinctive gobbles but I wish everyone could have heard this bird.

Does anyone have a similar story of a turkey possibly drumming while gobbling on the roost?  I mean at the exact same time. 

[Chilly]

I do agree that every bird sounds different whether gobbling or drumming. 

[drenalinld]

I always hear drumming when they gobble close. It is rapid thum, thum, thum,thum at the pace of their gobble. That's why I stated earlier I believe the same chest muscles and air sack that make the drumming noise make the gobble just at a rapid pace. JMO.

[Chilly]

I think there is a whole lot about turkeys that we have yet to learn....

[Greg Massey]

I think there is a whole lot about turkeys that we have yet to learn....

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[wvboy]

I always hear drumming when they gobble close. It is rapid thum, thum, thum,thum at the pace of their gobble. That's why I stated earlier I believe the same chest muscles and air sack that make the drumming noise make the gobble just at a rapid pace. JMO.

I never thought that was drumming.. I know what you are talking about.. but I always referred to it as the Rattle in his gobble.. "when you hear the rattle in his gobble you know he is close"

[stinkpickle]

I always hear drumming when they gobble close. It is rapid thum, thum, thum,thum at the pace of their gobble. That's why I stated earlier I believe the same chest muscles and air sack that make the drumming noise make the gobble just at a rapid pace. JMO.

I never thought that was drumming.. I know what you are talking about.. but I always referred to it as the Rattle in his gobble.. "when you hear the rattle in his gobble you know he is close"

Yeah, I've heard the rattle before, but it sounds different than drumming to me, too.

[Chilly]

The rattling is a totally different sound than the drumming.

[drenalinld]

No sir, not the rattle. The rattle can be heard at 50 yards or less maybe even 70 with the right gobbler and weather conditions. Different sound. Depending on the gobbler, I can start to hear it 30 yards or less. Sounds like rapidly beating on a bass drum.