Trumpet distance

[troutfisher13111]

Today was my first time hunting with a trumpet. It was the start of NY's special youth season and I did manage to use it to call a tom into 15 yards, but my daughter couldn't get a shot. What surprised me was how far the sound travels in the woods. It is easily the loudest call in my inventory, including what I thought were very loud boxes. Definitely an added benefit to using a trumpet.


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[crow]

someone wanted to hear what a wingbone sounded like at a barn I was working at, you could clearly hear the yelps echo back from a piece of woods that is about 300yds out across a hayfield.

[outdoors]

IVE CALLED QUITE A FEW GOBBLERS IN FROM WAY OFF CANT SAY THE DISTANCE , BUT FAR away , BUT IVE LEARNED WHEN THEY GOBBLE THERE WAY IN THERES THIS TIME TO STOP AND START LOOKING THEY ALWAYS COME IN QUIET ..... THATS WHERE I HUNT THOUGH PUBLIX LAND ....
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[slicksbeagles1]

I have had a maker tell me a mile

[drenalinld]

Don't think it is loudest but carries the farthest. If you ever want to test one against other calls do an echo test like suggested.

[boatpaddle]

It's an Omni-direction call......

     The lower toned calls carry a long way....

[mgm1955]

I was told by a maker that a game warden heard him a mile away. Don't know but they carry a long way.

[pappy]

this is a great point to make....the trumpet's sound which is produced by taking the air in is projected back out like a shot gun going off. You are actually directing the sound which is exiting at a high rate of FPS in a laser like fashion....with the sound concentrated in the 5/8" diameter hole it immediately travels staying within that dimension and as it travels out the sound perimeter becomes larger but it is still directional and accurate like a rifle instead of a shot gun and holds that pattern longer for a distance which produces a louder sound at that greater distance.  Unlike a box or a pot call which the sound is actually coming from the bottom then exiting upwards more like a mushroomed effect from a bomb....spreading outward like the rings on a pond after a rock hits the water...with the ringed sound waves getting weaker the farther out the travel... thus lessening the volume of the sound the farther they travel.

[mspaci]

I know it will make my ears hurt some times. Mike

[West Augusta]

They also cut the wind well.

[Houndstooth Game Calls]

A trumpets sound most definetley travels further lower tone travels way further! It's just like a owl hooter, I have heard a thousand times it's just not loud enough! I have seen time and time again when that would make a turkey gobble when the higher pitch voice wouldn't get a response... Trumpets are awesome in cranking a turkey up running and gunning! Jmo

[Bowhuntr73]

They are misleading when it comes to sound distance.

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

this is a great point to make....the trumpet's sound which is produced by taking the air in is projected back out like a shot gun going off. You are actually directing the sound which is exiting at a high rate of FPS in a laser like fashion....with the sound concentrated in the 5/8" diameter hole it immediately travels staying within that dimension and as it travels out the sound perimeter becomes larger but it is still directional and accurate like a rifle instead of a shot gun and holds that pattern longer for a distance which produces a louder sound at that greater distance.  Unlike a box or a pot call which the sound is actually coming from the bottom then exiting upwards more like a mushroomed effect from a bomb....spreading outward like the rings on a pond after a rock hits the water...with the ringed sound waves getting weaker the farther out the travel... thus lessening the volume of the sound the farther they travel.

Well said Pappy.  Very descriptive.

[West Augusta]

A trumpet is the only call I know of that produces an echo off of trees in front of me. Listen for it next time you take one into the woods.

[Tennessee Lead]

You guys are forcing me into temptation to buying a trumpet!