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Have enjoyed watching the push pin kill thread so figured it would be fun to start a trumpet kill thread for 2024 season. Post the photo you have but really like the ones with just the bird and call used. Congratulations to all those that have had success and good luck to those hunting! Be safe!

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3/30/24.   Opening day Ga!!


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Following along

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Been a great year already between youth, FL, and MS.  And I have a new favorite trumpet.


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Doubled with my son with Buice ironwood 5 1/2
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Congrats to that youngster.. those are great hunts.

Great thread op!

410 and Buice Osage. Double beard Osceola. First one only using the trumpet. He was all over it. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240331/904c111a7f6546fe2df3ef1294fd790e.jpg)


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My first Turkey after three full seasons of trying.

Quote from: Old Cat on April 03, 2024, 04:32:19 PM
My first Turkey after three full seasons of trying.

Congratulations

Beautiful trophy !!

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AGE XT ABW w/metal mouthpiece and lip stop.... NW GA
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I got my first trumpet kill this morning. I was using my first trumpet. Irvin Whitt African Blackwood. The trumpet turned this bird around. I was able to get him really excited with some yelps and cuts. I only gave him one last soft yelp on my mouth call.
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Quote from: aclawrence on April 08, 2024, 05:08:54 PM
I got my first trumpet kill this morning. I was using my first trumpet. Irvin Whitt African Blackwood. The trumpet turned this bird around. I was able to get him really excited with some yelps and cuts. I only gave him one last soft yelp on my mouth call.
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Congratulations! Nice going!! Love Irving Whitt!!!

Congratulations buddy!!!! Nice gobbler!!

Congrats on a good one and nice looking trumpet

Thanks guys, it was raining here this morning so I went in with my trumpet and a couple mouth calls. This gobbler seemed to really prefer the trumpet today.  Can't wait to get back to the woods!


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Eclipse Day Georgia Gobbler
LF Cox African Blackwood
Crossbow kill

Congratulations sixes that's a nice gobbler too!!!

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Some great looking birds and trumpets here! Thanks for sharing guys


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Ricky Padgett ABW.  A few tree yelps this morning and a little wing flap and he flew down and walked straight to me quick.

First bird I've ever called in with a trumpet and my sons 1st bird! Heck of a way to join the club


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KP Mopane, got it done this am..

Quote from: Ranman on April 14, 2024, 09:42:49 AM
KP Mopane, got it done this am..

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Mike Battey Omega
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Mark Prudhomme

Got this pic from one of my cousins this morning. Good to see the guys in their mid 20s out hunting. His second trumpet bird of the season.

He captioned the text "It runs in our blood!"

I let him borrow that Greg Gwaltney and another one about 3-4 years ago to try out and learn on and he has done well with them. I do remind him sometimes who actually owns them :toothy9:

Quote from: Sixes on April 17, 2024, 03:11:41 PM
I do remind him sometimes who actually owns them :toothy9:

LOL!!!! Ya got to do that once in a while  ;)

Quote from: Sixes on April 17, 2024, 03:11:41 PM
Got this pic from one of my cousins this morning. Good to see the guys in their mid 20s out hunting. His second trumpet bird of the season.

He captioned the text "It runs in our blood!"

I let him borrow that Greg Gwaltney and another one about 3-4 years ago to try out and learn on and he has done well with them. I do remind him sometimes who actually owns them :toothy9:

Dang man, I just had to look back and see when I made this trumpet......it was one of my early ones that is for sure(~5 1/2 years ago), pretty cool to see it helping someone kill a bird.

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Quote from: Sixes on April 17, 2024, 03:11:41 PM
Got this pic from one of my cousins this morning. Good to see the guys in their mid 20s out hunting. His second trumpet bird of the season.

He captioned the text "It runs in our blood!"

I let him borrow that Greg Gwaltney and another one about 3-4 years ago to try out and learn on and he has done well with them. I do remind him sometimes who actually owns them :toothy9:

Dang man, I just had to look back and see when I made this trumpet......it was one of my early ones that is for sure(~5 1/2 years ago), pretty cool to see it helping someone kill a bird.

He wears it with pride, just like it's his....  I guess at this point it probably is..

He sent me this pic from this morning with his newborn daughter and his turkey.

He has killed several birds with your trumpets

Love to see a Gwaltney original!

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Quote from: GregGwaltney on April 17, 2024, 05:51:04 PM

Quote from: Sixes on April 17, 2024, 03:11:41 PM
Got this pic from one of my cousins this morning. Good to see the guys in their mid 20s out hunting. His second trumpet bird of the season.

He captioned the text "It runs in our blood!"

I let him borrow that Greg Gwaltney and another one about 3-4 years ago to try out and learn on and he has done well with them. I do remind him sometimes who actually owns them :toothy9:

Dang man, I just had to look back and see when I made this trumpet......it was one of my early ones that is for sure(~5 1/2 years ago), pretty cool to see it helping someone kill a bird.

He wears it with pride, just like it's his....  I guess at this point it probably is..

He sent me this pic from this morning with his newborn daughter and his turkey.

He has killed several birds with your trumpets

Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's probably theirs now :wave:

Double beard on opening day

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Second and last tag filled this morning

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Called in this bird for a good buddy on opening day in WV with a signature series Permar.

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Second and last tag filled this morning

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Nice one!

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Called in this bird for a good buddy on opening day in WV with a signature series Permar.

Pretty, congrats!

This is the bird that I was blessed with yesterday!!! I have been fortunate to take a bunch of birds over my lifetime. This is the first one I have ever taken past 12 o'clock!!! Taken around 315. After some clucking on a "tongue call" and some yelps on the KP they were coming my way. Eased out the Cody slate with fighting purrs and they were in a trot, just like in the old Primos videos. He triple gobbled at 100 yards! Fellers it was awesome!!!Special thanks to a super nice guy that sent me the tongue call and old KP for bringing me the Malaysian Blackwood trumpet!!!
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Quick weekend trip with a buddy to his small farm produced this one.

Billy Buice Buckeye Burl (gift from my daughter a few years ago and my favorite call)

A few I had the pleasure to chase and help others chase. Got one  more hunt in me tomorrow as maybe I will get lucky and add another. If not, been a great year!

Forgot to get a picture with the call as I was too jacked up for my oldest boy!

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My first bird of the year.

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Next two are same bird.

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Have throughly enjoyed this thread. Keep them coming!

Pennsylvania youth season, KP trumpet.

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4/16/24

Quote from: RiverBuck on April 28, 2024, 07:26:23 PM4/16/24

Todd Black horn right there - congrats!

My second bird ever. 10.5" beard and 1 1/8 spurs. Man oh man, what a great hunt! The joker played tag with an arbitrary line in the sand for over an hour; I thought it just wasn't gonna happen.

I can't believe I've hunted for all these years and never knew how exciting a bird gobbling could be.

Congrats all you killers!!

Killed a good bird Monday not with a trumpet but my EZ wingbone. I put up a concentrated effort to get better with it and decided to hunt with it exclusively this spring. I got this bird Monday. Raised him about 150 yards out, called him in to ~75 yards, he circled but wouldn't commit...then left. When he gobbled about 100 yards or better away I laid on him with the wingbone and he came back. Met my 20 gauge TSS at 35 yards.

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19#, 10 3/8" beard, 1 1/4" spurs

Some great hunts here

Nice job Turkeyman, worth the practice time

Got a double bearded bird (10" & 2 3/4") with an excellent Hornstra yelper this morning.

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Called this one in for a good buddy of mine who's been having a tough time with the gobblers last few years.  Used a Permar 45 all delrin in the rain this morning.

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My public land Indiana trumpet bird from this year


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Wyoming double


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Lights out with the Steve Lumma wing bone cane yelper

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Wyoming with some solid black wing feathers.


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Permar Classic and Model 45


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This was the only one of mine killed this year solely with a yelper. Yelper played a part in one other but wasn't what I'd consider the finishing call. This one, though, died to an osage XT from Anthony Ellis.
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A lot of nice Toms and awesome looking trumpets - thanks for sharing fellas!

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Seth Hamon
Brazilian Rosewood / Ivory
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L.F Cox Cocobolo/Ivory and a Zebrawood Cox pot call

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Thanks Happy. Called in yesterday to the gun with my hickory trumpet, which I forgot to put in the  picture, it was hot out. Old Fox 12ga

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Brazilian Rosewood / Ivory
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L.F Cox Cocobolo/Ivory and a Zebrawood Cox pot call

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Love that old cox call. Would love to find one in that slimmer model.

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Who made that one [mention]Ranger [/mention]? Sure looks Trotter-ish.


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Call was made by a C McCullough as a meal ticket for his Grandson when he went off to war. War Between the States. C McCullough was a gunsmith and mountain man that made flintlock rifles in the NC mountains. Grandson was named Pvt. Artemis Pritchett, in a letter to his married sister S. Pickens he states he fed half his camp with a pair of young gobblers killed during the Mississippi campaigns. Call was carried the duration of the War, and to my knowledge is the oldest yelper type call in the country. And its just as deadly today as it was then, that I have personal testimony to

Quote from: Ranger on May 27, 2024, 09:05:28 PMCall was made by a C McCullough as a meal ticket for his Grandson when he went off to war. War Between the States. C McCullough was a gunsmith and mountain man that made flintlock rifles in the NC mountains. Grandson was named Pvt. Artemis Pritchett, in a letter to his married sister S. Pickens he states he fed half his camp with a pair of young gobblers killed during the Mississippi campaigns. Call was carried the duration of the War, and to my knowledge is the oldest yelper type call in the country. And its just as deadly today as it was then, that I have personal testimony to

You ain't selling me Lipstop, mouthpiece, and copper scream a Yank from Illinois.


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This gobbler never answered my calls but his group of hens did. I softy called from an old road through the woods. A hen responded so I stepped off the road and took a seat. She kept talking so I laid my gun down so I could hold my phone to video. She came right in and was followed by 3-4 more hens. I had no idea he was there until I glanced to the left and saw his red head. He was in full strut trailing about 20 yards behind the hens. They worked past me at 15-20 yards. When he went behind a tree I snatched up my gun and finished the deal as soon as he stepped out.


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Quote from: Sixes on April 28, 2024, 04:13:39 PMQuick weekend trip with a buddy to his small farm produced this one.

Billy Buice Buckeye Burl (gift from my daughter a few years ago and my favorite call)

That's one sharp Buice!


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Congratulations everyone on your gobblers!!

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Quote from: Ranger on May 27, 2024, 09:05:28 PMCall was made by a C McCullough as a meal ticket for his Grandson when he went off to war. War Between the States. C McCullough was a gunsmith and mountain man that made flintlock rifles in the NC mountains. Grandson was named Pvt. Artemis Pritchett, in a letter to his married sister S. Pickens he states he fed half his camp with a pair of young gobblers killed during the Mississippi campaigns. Call was carried the duration of the War, and to my knowledge is the oldest yelper type call in the country. And its just as deadly today as it was then, that I have personal testimony to

You ain't selling me Lipstop, mouthpiece, and copper scream a Yank from Illinois.


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I'm so glad you acknowledged him as a "yank."
Hopefully that will turn off some people and loosen up the demand! 
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He's just rambling about someone I guess. That call was made 60+ years before any Turpin yelper or 30+ years older than the Jordan call, oldest suction type turkey call in the country. And maybe the only existing call that fed soldiers in a time of war. Plain Folk in a Rich Mans War

Quote from: Old Swamper on June 13, 2024, 01:10:03 PMQuestion is, how many of these pics were simply "posed" with the yelpers. ;D

No idea, nor care, but I can count at least 12 that I know died from a trumpet call.

Quote from: crow on May 26, 2024, 04:13:01 PMThanks Happy. Called in yesterday to the gun with my hickory trumpet, which I forgot to put in the  picture, it was hot out. Old Fox 12ga

Love the gun 🤩

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Quote from: crow on May 26, 2024, 04:13:01 PMThanks Happy. Called in yesterday to the gun with my hickory trumpet, which I forgot to put in the  picture, it was hot out. Old Fox 12ga

Love the gun 🤩

Thanks, got to shoot it before buying, it's a well regulated good shooting gun

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Esse Quam Videri

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Same spot, same tactic and one of the same calls from last year. I added a classic this season that did help with different tone. Both callers had them going from first response until the shot. Early morning opening day success, hope to make the same for next season.