Several years ago, my uncle told me he wanted to go turkey hunting and I told him to find some birds and I'd come help him (I quit taking people to any of my public spots, unless they live under my roof). He got permission on a 100 acre piece that held some birds from time to time. I called in a bird for him one morning and he watched it walk across the top of a hardwood knob at 30 yards with me saying "shoot him" over and over. Bird walked off without a shot being fired and he said he didn't have a clear shot. I told him they don't get much more clear unless you are in a field.
A few days later I went back with him and the only bird we heard was a long ways across the paved road from us, and never heard him after he left the tree. We hung out for about an hour talking and were about to leave when the bird gobbled closer than he was roosted. I knew he was close enough to hear a call so I gave him some yelps on a trumpet and he cut me off. We set up on the field edge and it was about 100 yards to the paved rd of open field. Few minutes later he gobbled on his own and I knew he was close to the road. Yelped at him a few more times and he came across the road and strutted across the field right to about 20 yards and my uncle was able to get his first turkey, a triple beard.
About a year later the landowner wanted to get an old house torn down that was on the edge of that field he killed his first turkey in. County records show it being there in 1880 when they began tax records. My uncle salvaged the timbers from the floor system and some tongue and groove from some of the walls.
When I began turning trumpets last year he brought me a chunk of one of the timbers and asked me to make him a call from it. I finally got around to doing so and wow, it looks, sounds, and smells good. So he now has a trumpet made from wood that came from a house that was in sight of where his first turkey came from.
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I meant to put this is in the trumpet subforum, if I need to delete and make a new post let me know.
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Great story and memory for sure. Beautiful trumpet ....
Fine looking horn. And I enjoyed the story and the meaning behind it. Would love for you to post a sound file of that jewel on here so we can hear what that Old Triple Beard got to hear that day. Being located there myself, I am just curious as to what part of Georgia are you located?
Good looking trumpet
Very special
Quote from: mountainhunter1 on February 01, 2025, 10:17:13 AMFine looking horn. And I enjoyed the story and the meaning behind it. Would love for you to post a sound file of that jewel on here so we can hear what that Old Triple Beard got to hear that day. Being located there myself, I am just curious as to what part of Georgia are you located?
That triple beard heard a misfire trumpet that morning.
I'd post a soundfile but I'm not sure how. Took me an hour to figure out how to post some pics because they were wrong format and too large. . Had to resort to using Tapatalk. Never could get it to work with regular browser.
In the meantime, if you send me a message with your phone number I'd be glad to send one.
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Absolutely AWESOME!!!! It doesn't get any better than that.................
Sweet story and trumpet!!!
Great read, and that's a fine-looking trumpet. Hope to see a picture of it hanging from a big old Tom!
Great story and super looking trumpet. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Sharp horn !!
And the back-story ?? OUTSTANDING !!!
Great story, and very nice work
Quote from: DUPREE on February 01, 2025, 10:22:25 AMQuote from: mountainhunter1 on February 01, 2025, 10:17:13 AMFine looking horn. And I enjoyed the story and the meaning behind it. Would love for you to post a sound file of that jewel on here so we can hear what that Old Triple Beard got to hear that day. Being located there myself, I am just curious as to what part of Georgia are you located?
That triple beard heard a misfire trumpet that morning.
I'd post a soundfile but I'm not sure how. Took me an hour to figure out how to post some pics because they were wrong format and too large. . Had to resort to using Tapatalk. Never could get it to work with regular browser.
In the meantime, if you send me a message with your phone number I'd be glad to send one.
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Will send you a PM here in a few moments. Thanks
Great story an first bird!
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Awesome all the way around!
That's really cool.
Thanks for sharing, grat story and beautiful trumpet!
Great story and great looking horn. Thanks for sharing
Awesome story and horn!
Thanks for sharing it all with us. Beautiful trumpet! What is the wood ?
Quote from: slicksbeagles1 on February 03, 2025, 03:28:43 PMThanks for sharing it all with us. Beautiful trumpet! What is the wood ?
It's heart pine that was likely a living tree in the 1700's.
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Awesome story and caller!
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That is a great looking trumpet and a great story. Thank you for sharing.
Great looking horn, the back story makes it even better!