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Playing One Handed

Started by Greg Massey, January 27, 2023, 10:44:14 PM

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Greg Massey

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?

GregGwaltney

I play one-handed 95% of the time hunting.
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gmbellew

I play one handed when working a bird in close to keep movements down. it's good for real quiet stuff.

richard black

I play one-handed when necessary. As gembellew said it keeps movement down. I don't find it difficult to play one-handed.

davisd9

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.
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Chuck1443

When driving I do .


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EZ

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.

GregGwaltney

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.
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crow

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

Meleagris gallopavo

I practice some while driving. 


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When I first started practicing I did it driving
Kept getting pulled over.   
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Greg Massey

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:

GregGwaltney

I have caught people eye-balling me while driving & playing (one-handed), never been puller over though....lol
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2022 Grand Nat'l-5th Air Operated Trumpet
2021 Grand Nat'l-2nd Air Operated Trumpet
2021 Grand Nat'l-5th Air Operated Trumpet
2019 Grand Nat'l-3rd Air Operated Trumpet

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Sun Shine State { Osceola }
http://m.myfwc.com/media/4132227/turkeyhuntnoquota.jpg

noisy box call that seems to sound like a flock of juvenile hens pecking their way through a wheat field