Do you ever hear a turkey gobble...

[Skeeterbait]

 ...when one can't possibly be near?  I'm sitting here in the house researching what I want to plant in the garden this spring, its 10:30 at night, and the house is quiet.  A dog barks down the road and for a split second, my instinct takes over, my head snaps up, and my mind identifies it as a gobble.  Then reasoning takes over and I think I'm loosing it.  Do you have yourself so tuned to listen for a gobble that you subconsciously identify sounds as a gobble in unlikely situations?  Or is dementia creeping up on me?     

[sugarray]

Absolutely!!  I hear them when woodpeckers bang a tree, dogs bark, and even birds sing.  Not so much in the winter, but all spring long.  My heartbeat increases until I talk myself down.

[danny]

Yeah.  and it gets worse the closer to spring it gets......Danny

[jakesdad]

Yeah.  and it gets worse the closer to spring it gets......Danny

Totally agree!!I live in town and when i'm out in the yard and hear some crows near the park or a train whistle I always find myself looking up and listening for a gobble.Its a sickness and I hope i'm never cured!!!

[redarrow]

 
Squirrel's barking sounds like yelping too. 

[va wingbone]

all the time! no what what season, when a crow caws my ears perk waiting for a gobble to follow. not to worry its just one of the symptoms of the affliction 

[Gobble!]

all the time. hahaha

[Gooserbat]

It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.

[jblackburn]

It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.

A few of my "infected" friends have various gobbling/yelping ringtones for when they call me.  That really gets me going . . .

[va wingbone]

It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.

I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter

[jblackburn]

It is what separates the casual hunters from the infected ones.

I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter

Go to public land in Oklahoma/Kansas on opening weekend!  After that the hunting is pretty good . . .

[jakesdad]

I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter

Not claiming to be "elite" or better than anybody,but this is why deer hunting has become more of a social sport for me and less of a hunting addiction.Almost anybody can sit somewhere and eventually shoot a deer,or luck into one;happens every year.Dont get me wrong,not bashing deer hunters/hunting,I enjoy it also.It just doesnt have the addiction factor as does turkey hunting.Ever seen a diehard deer hunter standing in his yard talking with his buddies and say "hey listen,was that a deer gruntin' ".Die hard turkey hunters are a sick, certifiable group of individuals

[TRKYHTR]

Problem is that usually when I think I hear one gobble it usually is a turkey gobble.

TRKYHTR

[Fatbeard]

All the time it happens to us all

[va wingbone]

I never realized it was possible to be a "casual" turkey hunter

Not claiming to be "elite" or better than anybody,but this is why deer hunting has become more of a social sport for me and less of a hunting addiction.Almost anybody can sit somewhere and eventually shoot a deer,or luck into one;happens every year.Dont get me wrong,not bashing deer hunters/hunting,I enjoy it also.It just doesnt have the addiction factor as does turkey hunting.Ever seen a diehard deer hunter standing in his yard talking with his buddies and say "hey listen,was that a deer gruntin' ".Die hard turkey hunters are a sick, certifiable group of individuals

you're right, I may be wrong but I feel the same about the guys who sit in a blind over a chufa field for 7 hours and kill a gobbler that feeds past, and because they yelped 4 hours earlier they " called" him in. No way they have the illness

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