Opening day trumpet?

[pinebark]

As the season draws near, I'm sure everyone is probably doing the same thing I am and taking every opportunity to pick up one of our horns every time we walk by our display shelf and aggravate our wife and kids with the sounds that do the opposite to our sought after opponent. Just wondering if anyone else on here is halfway superstitious/sentimental and already has a trumpet in mind that they will pull out and give the first gobbler they hear "the medicine". Basically, is it a crapshoot one which one to use or a personal rule to open up with a certain one for most? And which one is it?

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[wchadw]

This year will be Buice 6" ironwood


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[coyote1]

I only have 2, an Osage/bocote from Daryl Gosey and a king wood from Crawdad. I usually rotate them throughout the season. I haven't decided which is going opening day yet.

[Terry]

This year it will be a Lignum Vitae from Kenny Pedelahore. I always hunt with my newest until I kill with it then I start going through the rotation. I like to make sure they get used.

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[Chris O]

I will probably start with Shag Hill for the first hunt. I would like to send Clay a dead turkey pic!!! It's always hard to leave my Old faithful Jeff Erb at home and I am really wanting to try my Charlie Trotter because I know it will do well for me. I will end up hunting many different trumpets throughout the season and I enjoy that

[CMBOSTC]

My ABW trumpet.

[davisd9]

Dag um buddy!  You starting off the morning with those tough questions making me feel uneasy and all. 

This is a question that I have started trying to avoid answering.  It is just so hard to choose.  Do you go to your old faithful, do you go to one that you were close with but just did not work out, or do you go to the new girl(s) in town?  I am fortunate that I should have the opportunity at seven tags this year and fortunately I have seven calls I want to hunt, 3 KPs, 3 Buice, and a Prudhomme.  Question is which is first up to bat?  Right now the three front runners are KP Cocuswood, Buice LV, and Prudhomme Ironwood.  It is hard going to be very hard not to slip my KP Bois De Rose around my neck as she has been faithful to me.  I just do not know and the truth is, I will just probably wake up opening morning and have to make the decision and run with it.  Honestly any that I choose then is going to be just fine!

[Jfowler82]

I agree that is a tough question ! I will most likely be a spur of the moment decision!

[pinebark]

Dag um buddy!  You starting off the morning with those tough questions making me feel uneasy and all. 

This is a question that I have started trying to avoid answering.  It is just so hard to choose.  Do you go to your old faithful, do you go to one that you were close with but just did not work out, or do you go to the new girl(s) in town?  I am fortunate that I should have the opportunity at seven tags this year and fortunately I have seven calls I want to hunt, 3 KPs, 3 Buice, and a Prudhomme.  Question is which is first up to bat?  Right now the three front runners are KP Cocuswood, Buice LV, and Prudhomme Ironwood.  It is hard going to be very hard not to slip my KP Bois De Rose around my neck as she has been faithful to me.  I just do not know and the truth is, I will just probably wake up opening morning and have to make the decision and run with it.  Honestly any that I choose then is going to be just fine!

Haha. Not trying to do that. I have just been reading Mr Larry Proffitt's book "Letters to My Grandsons" and as I read, I realize that I too go through a certain routine when starting out hunting a gobbler and along with that I start out with a certain trumpet that stays on me. However, collecting a few trumpets throughout the years and the excitement of getting blood on them can sway judgement to move away from a certain call that has soaked up most of the playing time on my spring mornings that has proved tried and true. Just wondering if anyone else has trouble setting out calls that prove deadly to bring in the new.

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[pinebark]

My ABW trumpet.

I love rifleshell trumpets. Sharp.

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[CMBOSTC]

My ABW trumpet.

I love rifleshell trumpets. Sharp.

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I do too, thank you!

[Spitten and drummen]

I will have a Buice Tulipwood with 5 different flat mouthpieces and a Ralph Permar 45 hanging around my neck.

[richard black]

Anthony Ellis AGE  African blackwood with buffalo horn mouthpiece.

[gergg]

This is one of my repair jobs, shattered on the lathe.....Ringed Gidgee with Osage Orange to hide the mess. She plays nicely, and is just fine for me. I have others planned, just need some time.

[chefrific]

I'll have my Cox ironwood around my neck.




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