A couple of questions for all you trumpet players

[Turkeycaller]

Well I have hunted pretty exclusively in the NE Ga.mountains for 28 years and just don't hear them keeing.
heck, I'm so old I can't hear anyway.... they maybe doing it, I'm just not picking it up.
BTY...when nothing else works, I throw every call at them there is.

[Yelpy]

 I am one of those guys who hasn't tryed many trumpets so thanks for the helpfull info!

 Kee Kee's and gobbler talk are just another part of the vocabulary that I also find quite effective in the spring.

[firedup]

Some good questions.  Lots of variety in the answers.  As for me, I don't much like a mouthpiece on a wingbone but like the look of cork the best. And I agree that the cork is fragile and will wear slick if you move it alot. On a trumpet I like the smaller mouthpiece usually. Rounded just abit on the edges. Beveled tips are ok and I usually run them with the bevel down...tryed it up and down but that seems to work better for me.  I think it is more the angle I hold the call in respect to how I am calling. If a bird is close and working I have the call down and titer to my body. If I am working long distance its more like the angel Gabriel trying to bring 'em home. Going to try sideways now I reckon. Overall, I prefer a flat tip or an oval shaped tip on the outsides, like a wingbone. Seems to fit and run better. And I don't know why but I often seem to run the call with it slightly off center between my lips.  Just seems to happen that way.

[MKW]

I prefer a straight tip, slightly rounded. I own, and run, trumpets with straight and angled mouthpieces and I, personally, see no advantage to an angled mouthpiece. I do build trumpets with an angled mouthpiece, when requested. As for the lipstop, I like them slightly rounded on top.


Mike

[Spring Dragon]

I own all calls with all types and find no advantage to a slant either.  In fact... the slant for me is uncomfortable and in a pinch to much a hassle to position in a hunt.  My preference is an oval shape and I like the ol' V-Notch which helps me get rasp and change up my calling in other ways as well.

[professorwingbone]

Kee-keeing in the spring is a great way to call in a hen, often followed by that "hung up" gobbler.

Thanks, Ralph. That definitely clears it up for me. I didn't realize you weren't talking about a wingbone.

When I make my wingbones, I make them so that when played, the call bends downward. The radius bone is slightly beveled on the tip so that it is held against the bottom lip and horizontal. The inside of the curve in the humerus fits between the thumb and index finger.

Fred