Wanting to learn how to use a trumpet yelper, does anybody have any suggestions on buying a 1st call. Not wanting a low end but have seen some high dollar customs out there.

Thanks

I got one from misfire game calls pretty easy to run

What type of material is yours made of, I reached out to misfire calls and he gave me some ideas on wood/acrylic and different types of mouth piece materials.

Get a wingbone and learn to use it. It’ll make a trumpet a piece of cake. Wingbones can be free. Not trying to derail your post but I thought it might be good advice.

Thanks for the advice, now wishing tomorrow wasn’t the last day of season.

When I looked into trumpets a couple of years ago they were higher than giraffe's c00che.

BustinBeards made me a sweet cane caller that makes some awesome clucks and if you practice yelps good as well.

I've got a "Tom Turpin" trumpet I've had for about 50 years. I bought it because what few Turkey Hunters around back then used a Lynch Box,home-made diaphragm or Lynch slate call.....none had a trumpet. I figured the Turkeys had never heard the sound it makes and I might have s little better luck......I was right!! Called many in with that Trumpet.....believe I paid $7.00 for it.

I appreciate the kind words on the cane yelper Rod.

I make some cane yelpers and they do a pretty fine job of making hens pissed off.

Woodley, Give William Lester a look. He makes a fine yelper that is easy to run and won’t break the bank.

Pm to you

PM to you woodleyrd

I was in the same boat a few years ago and bought a william lester call its not too hard to run, but ive never put enough practive into to make it one of my hunting calls. Either way he is a one man show and makes a cool call that i think will be a collectors items one day down the road.

BustinBeards makes a fine call

I run a handmade wingbone and a V.O. Johnson Quill call. I put a lip stopper on the Johnson, but the wingbone I run without one. I'm in the market for a good one too, but spending that type money makes me cringe.

I killed a bird with your cane yelper last year pal. Cutting on that thing pisses hens off something awful lol

Just a little advice, this is an addictive habit to pick up. Ive bought 3 trumpets and have a 4th being made now by William Lester. Ive picked up a couple of wing bones and cane calls also. This is getting expensive🤣

Post up some pics and contact info of makers if they build for the rest of turkey addicts !
Thanks

I will tonight if I can figure out how to post them

Here are a couple of trumpets I’ve picked up and a wingbone I made(please excuse the bad artwork). I also have a Mossy Oak bottomland acrylic call coming from William Lester.


Rolfe Hollow calls Ken Mullins



Misfire calls Lee Chadwick (made lanyard)



Wingbone

Nice…. Are the trumpets hard to run?

I have one of those too, and mine is also about 50 years old. I'm sure it was under $10, and it was my second one. I carried the first around for several years and eventually damaged the lip, so I bought another one. It's easy to learn to make a good cluck with it, but takes a lot of practice to yelp well.

A trumpet moves a lot of air and that makes it the most difficult of this style of call. The cane call is much easier to learn to run. I would start with a Bustinbeards cane call and try a trumpet after getting good with it.