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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 11:22:22 AMAmazing calling by Mark Prudhomme there. For those here that can call like that on a trumpet I would suggest sticking with it in the turkey woods!
...For the rest of us, might be wiser to stick with the easier calls to use. Personally, I am looking for the gobblers that like the "braying donkey" sound that I am really good at!   #22
General Forum / Re: Happy New Year!Last post by Turkeybutt - Today at 11:21:13 AMHappy New Year! Maybe, just maybe that buck may appear.
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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???Last post by EZ - Today at 09:48:03 AMEntertaining and informative.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CAB6_JNRYMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4zZtBcQCNE #24
General Forum / Re: Happy New Year!Last post by Tom007 - Today at 09:48:02 AMBe safe, be healthy. Happy New Year!
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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???Last post by GobbleNut - Today at 09:25:18 AMI suppose I fall into the BullTom camp regarding my opinion of the sound and realism of a trumpet...or any other type of suction call. From my personal experience in hearing (conservatively) many hundreds of hen turkeys in the woods, there has only been ONE time that I have heard a real hen turkey sound like a suction call to MY ears...or at least the sound of the suction calls I have heard from the great majority of hunters I have heard using one of them. That bird was not in sight when I heard it, and I concluded that the sound was coming from someone using a trumpet/wingbone/etal. I admit I was shocked when the hen making the sound came into sight.
On the other hand, I have heard those same hundreds of hens "out there" that sounded either like a friction call of some sort...or another form of air-operated call (mouth call/tube). I won't even get into the discussion about how, out of those hundreds of hens, the "noises" they make have varied from the classic "box-call yelp" to everything all the way down to that of a braying donkey. Regardless of my personal opinion, however, if somebody wants to pursue becoming proficient enough with any type of suction call to regularly kill gobblers with them, more power to them. Furthermore, if that somebody has convinced themselves that they killed a particular gobbler due only to their mastery of a trumpet, then even more power to them. I admire that dedication to our pastime. However, my own opinion on the matter is that 1) I will never be convinced that a gobbler that is killed by someone using a trumpet could not have been killed by someone using another type of call, and 2) that a gobbler that did not come to that suction call someone is using would not willingly come to a hunter that chose, at that moment, to use another type of call. In summation, a guy is much better off hitting on whatever sound/calling sequence a gobbler wants to hear at any given moment than he is swearing by any particular type of calling device (which, by the way, is curious of me to say since I use mouth calls almost exclusively  ). Yes, that preferred calling device may, in any given encounter with a gobbler, be a trumpet...or it may, in the next encounter, be the call you have that sounds like that braying donkey.  #26
General Forum / Happy New Year!Last post by DLPetrey - Today at 08:50:27 AMHappy New Year, turkey hunting friends. May this year bring us all many encounters with the grand old King of the Gamebirds.
I haven't posted a lot since I joined here last Spring, but I look to change that this year. It's cold and windy today in the northwestern corner of North Carolina. I'm currently enjoying a cup of coffee, while watching the sun come up over the ridge, waiting on perhaps a last-day-of-the-season buck to appear. However, my thoughts are already in April, when I'll be back, Lord willing, in these same woods, listening for a longbeard to sound off. Blessings, friends. Let's make this our best year yet. #27
General Forum / Re: Trumpets???Last post by bbcoach - Today at 08:14:58 AMGentlemen, this is the type of responses I expected to hear. I personally have come to the same conclusion that trumpets really don't have that hen sound, that we hear from other calls, even played by those we hold in HIGH regard as GREAT trumpet players. Maybe it's my ear or my lack of experience with the trumpet, but as many have said, they definitely get responses and they definitely bring birds to the end of the gun barrel. I don't want this thread to get into a P------ contest but the trumpet has its place and DEFINITELY fools birds. So why the response, in your opinion? Wavelength as EZ stated? Just questions to mull over and talk about sensibly until we can ALL get in the woods. HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL!
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General Forum / Re: Word Association GameLast post by Lcmacd 58 - Today at 07:48:40 AMDominant
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General Forum / Re: Trumpets???Last post by EZ - Today at 06:40:28 AMSome good points brought up. Everyone's experiences may vary. I remember decades ago, famed turkey biologist, Lovette Williams, studied the sounds made by turkeys and sounds made by turkey calls using equipment that measured sound wavelength. Wingbones and trumpets were nearly identical to that of real turkeys.
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