EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

How many old school hands still use a blowin horn?

when I got my first tracking system I quit blowing the bull horn and the truck horn...

I just bought my first tracking system a month ago, but still can't manage to leave the blowin horn at home it's my grandpas horn he had carried it since he was a young man back when there was no stock law and they drove hogs to the pens like cattle

My dad has an old horn. I remember him useing it and a shotgun barrel. For the most part I just hoop to cal em back.

Both the older guys I hunt with have one and as do I

Yepper.  Works great.
Underdog hooked me up with my current one.  Broke all the others and retired my grandfathers old foxhound horns I used years ago.

YBM , what one did I bring you ? Should have been one of the old good ones.  My old partner used to keep an old goat horn....it was dang good. Anyone know were I can get a good blowin goat horn ?

    I haven't found a source for goat horns in a long time .  I still make the cattle horns but would love to find a good source for good usable goat horns to work on  .

Never seen a goat horn.. Just short cow horns... Any of y'all know Otto Fregia .. He was my great great uncle one of the last of the prairie cowboys from Setx along with Jude hart , but he made blowing horns for ppl from all over... Taught me quite a bit about making them but I still can't to this day make a mouthpiece as fine as his were.

That lil ole goat horn of his had a good tune to it.   If anyone finds an extra or makes an extra please let me know.   Halfbreed if you come across any holler at me.

   yeah I will underdog but since everybody went to them dang boar goats , horns are dang near impossible to find . I've run across a few I thought about trying to use but they  was way to ruff to work with , as far as the condition of them goes . cow horns are o.k. but them little goats horns do sound sweeter by far  .

I've never saw a goat horn I don't guess, why don't y'all post some pictures of em.  I might have some luck getting a few goat horns, if I know about what I'm after, as far as length and size goes.

   ba the old Spanish goat horns are about the best as far as size and shape . you need a horn preferably in the neighborhood of 12'' to begin with any shorter and you wind up with about a 6'' horn . your going to trim around an 1 &1/2'' to 2'' from each end unless you go with a manufactured bugle mouth piece [ wich are great sounding horns I might add and easy to blow ] then polished down till you can see sunlight through them when looking through the inside .  look just like a cow horn only made from a goat .  they give a good high ''c'' sound that carries a long ,long ways .  I  don't have my old one my grandpaw had all my stuff like that disappeared while I was away defending my country from communism , gotta love family  [ or do you  ? ]

Halfbreed how much u charge to make me a good blowing horn. Im not far from u and I would love to have a good horn. I rode around in a pasture the other day cause I thought I was gonna make one and I bet you I picked up 30 different horns but none felt or looked good. After my one day experience I realized it might be harder than I thought.

   lol   around 200.00 a piece .  and that would be at me making less than minimum wage .  takes a lot of time to work them down to were I like them . I do all my work by hand but been thinking on getting a sander to do the rough work . this is my current project and I have several more in the process
 

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 this is a thick heavey horn off a longhorn and I still need to take a lot of horn off of it to lighten it up . it's a one piece  I use to make the mouth pieces out of the tips separately but this one was thick enough to whittle the cut off end into one  . I like to had never got the blow hole burned into it the tip was solid for about 6'' .

  if you want to go the easy rout you can get the pre-polished horns from tandy leather supply . they have a sub store in mesquite off of military pkwy .

about 20-25 years ago I used to buy from Tandy's Leather Supply close to downtown Houston...

Still use them just made 2 new ones

http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/DeltaGilmore.html

http://www.ramshornstudio.com/the_bukkehorn.htm

  that was a good article Rueben

Pretty neat story

I use one cause I can't afford a garmin, i made mine and used a mouth piece from a trumpet , it works real good for me. I just blow it before I feed them at home and after a lil while they just come to it in the woods.