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Season is open here in Bama now so i figured i'd go down back and see if i can strike one. I pick a spot down in the drainage and hit my scratch box one time. Gobble right away so i put my headgear and gloves onand give it a bit . I am deaf in one ear and can't tell directions of sounds so i just sit tight. I hit the call again and he gobbles close but i don't know where he is . He goes quiet again and i just keep scanning the woods ahead of me looking hard . I give it 15 and hit the call again and he has moved off now but gobbles . This is so typical of how my hunts end and it frustrates me to no end but i love huntin em. I have a blind i need to set up but i love sittin against a tree . Maybe i can get lucky this season and have a dumb blind one walk in and let me win one this year .
Just thought i'd share
Good luck to all you two ear guys this year 🥴
 
Chickenrig said:
Season is open here in Bama now so i figured i'd go down back and see if i can strike one. I pick a spot down in the drainage and hit my scratch box one time. Gobble right away so i put my headgear and gloves onand give it a bit . I am deaf in one ear and can't tell directions of sounds so i just sit tight. I hit the call again and he gobbles close but i don't know where he is . He goes quiet again and i just keep scanning the woods ahead of me looking hard . I give it 15 and hit the call again and he has moved off now but gobbles . This is so typical of how my hunts end and it frustrates me to no end but i love huntin em. I have a blind i need to set up but i love sittin against a tree . Maybe i can get lucky this season and have a dumb blind one walk in and let me win one this year .
Just thought i'd share
Good luck to all you two ear guys this year 🥴
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I had an old timer turkey hunter that always got his bird when our TN kill was less than 100 birds a year tell me something that has been confirmed by another old timer or two. He told me that if a bird ever answers your call (and isn't just a shock gobble at a loud noise), that the bird will return to that call sometime that day. It may be an hour, or it might be five hours.

What you just described often represents what happens a lot early in the season. The gobbler flies down to a harem of hens and spends most of the early morning strutting and breeding. He may answer a call, but, he isn't going to leave the real thing. Later in the morning as the hens return to nest, he can get lonely and come to your call.

All that just to say not to give up on a day too early. I have probably killed five times the birds between 9 and noon than I have at first light. Get one of the turkey lounger seats made for long sits, get comfortable, and stay a while. That same old timer told me that if I could get one to gobble after 10, he ought to be a dead bird. That has proven real to me (except for the ones I manage to screw up). Hang in there!
 
Spurhunter said:
I don't hear well anymore. It's frustrating. I can be standing with someone when he gobbles and almost always think he's the wrong direction. If I'm alone I need him to gobble quite a few times to zero in the direction. Of course they rarely do.
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I am pretty much deaf in my left ear as well. It sucks not being able to pinpoint a direction.

I have sort of figured out a little cheat code for me. When I do hear one, I have come to realize he is probably closer than I might think, and likely is to the left of where I think he is.

But, yeah, I still screw them up with the sucky hearing.
 
scn said:
I had an old timer turkey hunter that always got his bird when our TN kill was less than 100 birds a year tell me something that has been confirmed by another old timer or two. He told me that if a bird ever answers your call (and isn't just a shock gobble at a loud noise), that the bird will return to that call sometime that day. It may be an hour, or it might be five hours.

What you just described often represents what happens a lot early in the season. The gobbler flies down to a harem of hens and spends most of the early morning strutting and breeding. He may answer a call, but, he isn't going to leave the real thing. Later in the morning as the hens return to nest, he can get lonely and come to your call.

All that just to say not to give up on a day too early. I have probably killed five times the birds between 9 and noon than I have at first light. Get one of the turkey lounger seats made for long sits, get comfortable, and stay a while. That same old timer told me that if I could get one to gobble after 10, he ought to be a dead bird. That has proven real to me (except for the ones I manage to screw up). Hang in there!
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I agree with all of that
 
funny story. When I went to Nevada to hunt a few years ago, I went with the wildlife deputy director for the first few days (we were good buddies). He is a world class sheep hunter but never did much turkey hunting so I told he Id show him what I know. What I failed to realize is cant hear anything and wears hearing aids in both ears lol. Never really mattered in sheep hunting cause thats not based on sound. Realized really fast that hunting with someone that cant hear is a real challange and really changes how you approach it. I had never hunted with someone with hearing limitations so took me a bit to adjust, but my point is we figured out what worked and how to gameplan with that in mind and ended up both successful in that 3 day period. Just stay after it and work slower and stay longer is what worked for him.
 
scn said:
I am pretty much deaf in my left ear as well. It sucks not being able to pinpoint a direction.

I have sort of figured out a little cheat code for me. When I do hear one, I have come to realize he is probably closer than I might think, and likely is to the left of where I think he is.
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That may be a good tip for me as well.
 
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scn said:
I had an old timer turkey hunter that always got his bird when our TN kill was less than 100 birds a year tell me something that has been confirmed by another old timer or two. He told me that if a bird ever answers your call (and isn't just a shock gobble at a loud noise), that the bird will return to that call sometime that day. It may be an hour, or it might be five hours.
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Chamberlain confirmed this with his GPS trackers. We all know turkeys have an amazing ability to mark a hen's exact location just by hearing her call, and according to him they almost always check that spot later in the day.
 
Have a buddy from FL that can't hardly hear it thunder and wears aids all the time. Still couldn't course them very well. He then bought a set of hearing aids specifically for turkey hunting from someone around Lebanon. He came up & hunted last year with me and they were better but he still wasn't satisfied, so he call the guy he bought them from. They told him if he'd drive over that they'd adjust them to his ears & gobbler frequency. He did & was amazed at the difference it made.
 
tellico4x4 said:
Have a buddy from FL that can't hardly hear it thunder and wears aids all the time. Still couldn't course them very well. He then bought a set of hearing aids specifically for turkey hunting from someone around Lebanon. He came up & hunted last year with me and they were better but he still wasn't satisfied, so he call the guy he bought them from. They told him if he'd drive over that they'd adjust them to his ears & gobbler frequency. He did & was amazed at the difference it made.
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A good buddy of mine got some (I forget the brand and they were not cheap) like that. They are tuned specifically for duck frequency and it's amazing how much better he can hear in a duck blind now. He said they can adjust them for turkey frequencies as well in the spring if he wanted to. He couldn't hear ANYTHING before he got them (older airborne vet) but now it's like night and day.
 
tellico4x4 said:
He then bought a set of hearing aids specifically for turkey hunting from someone around Lebanon. He came up & hunted last year with me and they were better but he still wasn't satisfied, so he call the guy he bought them from. They told him if he'd drive over that they'd adjust them to his ears & gobbler frequency. He did & was amazed at the difference it made.
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Sounds like Tetra Turkey Amp Pods. I have actually heard good things from real world turkey hunters about them, especially when they are calibrated to one's ears and turkeys too. Article below about them. I have never used them, so I cannot comment.

Tetra Amp Pods
 
tellico4x4 said:
Have a buddy from FL that can't hardly hear it thunder and wears aids all the time. Still couldn't course them very well. He then bought a set of hearing aids specifically for turkey hunting from someone around Lebanon. He came up & hunted last year with me and they were better but he still wasn't satisfied, so he call the guy he bought them from. They told him if he'd drive over that they'd adjust them to his ears & gobbler frequency. He did & was amazed at the difference it made.
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I would love to have a link to their website. It is on my things to do list this year to get a set of general hearing aids for everyday use. I would love to have another set tuned to turkey frequencies. It is VERY frustrating not being able to pinpoint a gobble.
 
scn said:
I had an old timer turkey hunter that always got his bird when our TN kill was less than 100 birds a year tell me something that has been confirmed by another old timer or two. He told me that if a bird ever answers your call (and isn't just a shock gobble at a loud noise), that the bird will return to that call sometime that day. It may be an hour, or it might be five hours.

What you just described often represents what happens a lot early in the season. The gobbler flies down to a harem of hens and spends most of the early morning strutting and breeding. He may answer a call, but, he isn't going to leave the real thing. Later in the morning as the hens return to nest, he can get lonely and come to your call.

All that just to say not to give up on a day too early. I have probably killed five times the birds between 9 and noon than I have at first light. Get one of the turkey lounger seats made for long sits, get comfortable, and stay a while. That same old timer told me that if I could get one to gobble after 10, he ought to be a dead bird. That has proven real to me (except for the ones I manage to screw up). Hang in there!
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I agree with you . It was after 10:30 that i struck him . The main issue is not being able to move at all . He could be right behind me or anywhere in the 360.
It never fails that if i look left first ,he's to the right and visa versa. It's just plain frustrating but i will give it my all
Thanks for the knowledge
 
tellico4x4 said:
Have a buddy from FL that can't hardly hear it thunder and wears aids all the time. Still couldn't course them very well. He then bought a set of hearing aids specifically for turkey hunting from someone around Lebanon. He came up & hunted last year with me and they were better but he still wasn't satisfied, so he call the guy he bought them from. They told him if he'd drive over that they'd adjust them to his ears & gobbler frequency. He did & was amazed at the difference it made.
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2 ears that even work poorly is heads and tails over just 1 that works decent.i can't find a plane in the sky ,i would'nt know it's you talking next to me if i didn't see you talking ,i don't even know if it's my belly rumbling . It just plain sucks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am picking up my first hearing aide on Friday and we will see if i get used to it and if it makes a difference in the turkey woods.
 
scn said:
I would love to have a link to their website. It is on my things to do list this year to get a set of general hearing aids for everyday use. I would love to have another set tuned to turkey frequencies. It is VERY frustrating not being able to pinpoint a gobble.
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I think the link that Andy sent is correct. I sent Jerry a text to confirm. Will let you know.
 
scn said:
I had an old timer turkey hunter that always got his bird when our TN kill was less than 100 birds a year tell me something that has been confirmed by another old timer or two. He told me that if a bird ever answers your call (and isn't just a shock gobble at a loud noise), that the bird will return to that call sometime that day. It may be an hour, or it might be five hours.

What you just described often represents what happens a lot early in the season. The gobbler flies down to a harem of hens and spends most of the early morning strutting and breeding. He may answer a call, but, he isn't going to leave the real thing. Later in the morning as the hens return to nest, he can get lonely and come to your call.

All that just to say not to give up on a day too early. I have probably killed five times the birds between 9 and noon than I have at first light. Get one of the turkey lounger seats made for long sits, get comfortable, and stay a while. That same old timer told me that if I could get one to gobble after 10, he ought to be a dead bird. That has proven real to me (except for the ones I manage to screw up). Hang in there!
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This is exactly true. Works for me lots of times. I set up a blind with comfortable chair. Turkeys roosted on neighbors. Fly down into their pastures or hay fields. After fly down do some real aggressive calling. He's gobbling back. Call aggressive about every hour or more. Killed in two to five hours. Sometimes multiple gobblers show up. They know exactly where you are.
 
scn said:
I would love to have a link to their website. It is on my things to do list this year to get a set of general hearing aids for everyday use. I would love to have another set tuned to turkey frequencies. It is VERY frustrating not being able to pinpoint a go
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@scn Jerry's reply about Tetra, @Andy S. was spot on.

Yes
They are not far from Nashville. If I lived there (Nashville) I would go there and let the DR test his hearing, and get the 'ear molded model' series , they could do that too. Really nice people all of them.
 
tellico4x4 said:
@scn Jerry's reply about Tetra, @Andy S. was spot on.

Yes
They are not far from Nashville. If I lived there (Nashville) I would go there and let the DR test his hearing, and get the 'ear molded model' series , they could do that too. Really nice people all of them.
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Do you have a name/address for their practice? I am more than willing to make the drive if they can work me in before turkey season.
 

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