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Title: Playing One Handed
Post by: Greg Massey on January 27, 2023, 10:44:14 PM
Do you practice playing one handed with your trumpet?   Lets say your calling a gobbler and you have your gun shoulder and partly resting on your knee and you need a few more soft yelps / clucks to close the deal for the shot .... So do you practice at being proficient with your trumpets using one handed call playing?
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: GregGwaltney on January 27, 2023, 11:06:15 PM
I play one-handed 95% of the time hunting.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Greg Massey on January 27, 2023, 11:22:02 PM
Quote from: GregGwaltney on January 27, 2023, 11:06:15 PM
I play one-handed 95% of the time hunting.
Very interesting ....
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: gmbellew on January 27, 2023, 11:53:57 PM
I play one handed when working a bird in close to keep movements down. it's good for real quiet stuff.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: richard black on January 28, 2023, 06:10:17 AM
I play one-handed when necessary. As gembellew said it keeps movement down. I don't find it difficult to play one-handed.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: davisd9 on January 28, 2023, 07:54:54 AM
I will call one all the way to the gun with a trumpet. I have had them at 15 yards soft yelping or clicking to break strut.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Chuck1443 on January 28, 2023, 08:07:08 AM
When driving I do .


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Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: EZ on January 28, 2023, 08:33:58 AM
Yep, if you're hunting them you better be comfortable playing one handed.
That's why even though I'm right handed, I hold the call with my left hand. Right hand is holding my gun resting on my left knee.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: GregGwaltney on January 28, 2023, 08:37:10 AM
Quote from: EZ on January 28, 2023, 08:33:58 AM
Yep, if you're hunting them you better be comfortable playing one handed.
That's why even though I'm right handed, I hold the call with my left hand. Right hand is holding my gun resting on my left knee.
I do the same EZ, left-handed when they get close.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: crow on January 28, 2023, 09:52:04 AM
I practice and hunt playing one handed a lot, driving around is some of the best practice time to practice 1 hand

left handed felt more natural and that is how I started, I hunt with either hand but left hand still feels more comfortable.

I think though if your right handed holding it in your right hand has an edge of less movement to get back on your gun, as how Mark Prudhomme shows on 1 of his videos
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Meleagris gallopavo on January 28, 2023, 11:20:13 AM
I practice some while driving. 


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Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: outdoors on January 28, 2023, 11:25:42 AM
When I first started practicing I did it driving
Kept getting pulled over.   
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Greg Massey on January 28, 2023, 11:51:56 AM
Quote from: outdoors on January 28, 2023, 11:25:42 AM
When I first started practicing I did it driving
Kept getting pulled over.
I guess you had SMOKE coming from your tailpipe ....  :TooFunny:     Or were you PASSING GAS .... :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: GregGwaltney on January 28, 2023, 12:06:27 PM
I have caught people eye-balling me while driving & playing (one-handed), never been puller over though....lol
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: outdoors on January 28, 2023, 12:14:40 PM
Greg your COLD
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: gmbellew on January 28, 2023, 04:35:21 PM
Quote from: crow on January 28, 2023, 09:52:04 AM
I practice and hunt playing one handed a lot, driving around is some of the best practice time to practice 1 hand

left handed felt more natural and that is how I started, I hunt with either hand but left hand still feels more comfortable.

I think though if your right handed holding it in your right hand has an edge of less movement to get back on your gun, as how Mark Prudhomme shows on 1 of his videos

I shoot right handed and also play one handed with my right hand. not a lot of movement to go from the trumpet barrel to the trigger
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Sir-diealot on January 28, 2023, 06:20:16 PM
More so with my Chibouk than with an actual trumpet at this time, I still have a lot of learning to do with wind instruments.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Zobo on January 28, 2023, 08:55:50 PM
Quote from: GregGwaltney on January 28, 2023, 12:06:27 PM
I have caught people eye-balling me while driving & playing (one-handed), never been puller over though....lol

I had a car full of young women laughing at me and giving me the thumbs up recently. They definitely thought I was vaping or smoking something.
Title: Re: Playing One Handed
Post by: Chris O on January 29, 2023, 07:01:01 PM
Quote from: EZ on January 28, 2023, 08:33:58 AM
Yep, if you're hunting them you better be comfortable playing one handed.
That's why even though I'm right handed, I hold the call with my left hand. Right hand is holding my gun resting on my left knee.
I do this as well.