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Serious questions as season approaches!
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5581905" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>I think "drumming" may be a sound that many hear, but if have never realized its source, it gets discounted as just some kind of non-descript background noise. First time I ever identified it, it was from an old Tom that slipped up behind me, and when he got within 10 feet of me, it seemed very loud, sending shivers up my spine. I was half expecting some gigantic Komodo dragon lizard to just grab me from behind.</p><p></p><p>Funny thing is, after that first time identifying the sound, again, <u>more a "vibration" to me</u>, I've since heard it about every year, often from multiple Toms in a single season. It's just not often hunters have a strutting Tom within a few feet of them, and that contributes to many having never <u>identified</u> this sound, maybe just discounting it as some distant low frequency hum.</p><p></p><p>My hearing is not as good as it once was, but I typically can hear one drumming within 35 yds or so if it's not windy. They will more often than not come up from behind you, as they seem to stay in the cover more, checking things out, before coming more out into the open. We tend to have our backs to the heavier cover, watching the more open areas in front of us. Sometimes they will just circle those areas, drumming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5581905, member: 1409"] I think "drumming" may be a sound that many hear, but if have never realized its source, it gets discounted as just some kind of non-descript background noise. First time I ever identified it, it was from an old Tom that slipped up behind me, and when he got within 10 feet of me, it seemed very loud, sending shivers up my spine. I was half expecting some gigantic Komodo dragon lizard to just grab me from behind. Funny thing is, after that first time identifying the sound, again, [U]more a "vibration" to me[/U], I've since heard it about every year, often from multiple Toms in a single season. It's just not often hunters have a strutting Tom within a few feet of them, and that contributes to many having never [U]identified[/U] this sound, maybe just discounting it as some distant low frequency hum. My hearing is not as good as it once was, but I typically can hear one drumming within 35 yds or so if it's not windy. They will more often than not come up from behind you, as they seem to stay in the cover more, checking things out, before coming more out into the open. We tend to have our backs to the heavier cover, watching the more open areas in front of us. Sometimes they will just circle those areas, drumming. [/QUOTE]
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