I just got a trumpet from Brain Mero a few weeks ago. Being my first I practiced a lot and still have some work.
I called in a gobbler from so far away im not even sue the distance. thinking 300-400 yards if thats possible .. Told my buddy " this is asking a lot out of a gobbler"
Took 2 hours but he showed. actually so close my friend could not get a shot and he walked out of our life. Thats another story but Im very amazed that the gobbler could even hear me. and answered me that far away. I wasnt even loud with it just trying to sound like a hen best I could. Im hooked
I am sure a gobbler can hear a trumpet farther than any other call I run and have called them with a mouth call well in excess of 800 yds in south Ga . That's thru the woods and across 2 dirt roads . In the big open cowpsatures of south Florida I've had them answer and come in excess of 1,000 yds to a mouth call. And I have no qualms that a trumpet would've made them come farther than that .
And saying they reach out is saying something because I run a tube call religiously !
I agree with 2nd 100. 400 yards is nothing for a turkey to hear. Especially a trumpet. They cut the wind like nothing else.
I had 2 birds come from several ridges away last year, not sure how far, but it was a long way. I was cutting on the trumpet mid-morning, could barely hear them at first, but they high-tailed it up and over-x2 in a hurry. I am guessing they heard the call and were calling back before I could even hear them.