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- verb Present participle of
gobble .
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Examples
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Remember this, while the gobbling is hot and heavy around sunrise, after 9-10am is when those hens leave the toms and your chances skyrocket.
Just starting out. 2009
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If gobbling is sparse then I like to quietly walk ridge lines and set up and call every 100 - 150 yards or so.
What do you believe is the best way to turkey hunt still hunting or walking around. 2009
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Remember this, while the gobbling is hot and heavy around sunrise, after 9-10am is when those hens leave the toms and your chances skyrocket.
Just starting out. 2009
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If gobbling is sparse then I like to quietly walk ridge lines and set up and call every 100 - 150 yards or so.
What do you believe is the best way to turkey hunt still hunting or walking around. 2009
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Towardsunset, listen again for gobbling from the roost.
Spring Turkey Scouting Tips from Field & Stream's Philip Bourjaily 2006
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In regard to the so-called "gobbling" and "five starring" incidents, it appears that with varying degrees of culpability approximately twelve of the runners engaged in this type of activity.
Forbes.com: News Bob Cook 2011
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When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B. Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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They shot two wild turkeys from a flock that was "gobbling" in the tall trees, announcing the coming of the day, and cooked them at a fire that they built by the side of a brook.
The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" 1890
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When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B. Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B. Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation.
Sketches New and Old, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872
Louises commented on the word gobbling
I looked at him, felt the silver gobbling his life with non-negotiable greed. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
April 1, 2012