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The Old Man
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« on: July 11, 2022, 06:18:56 pm »

I decided to start using a horn to call my dogs and one day we had penned a big bunch of cattle at some big pens that had a hydraulic chute in them, early in the year they had dehorned a bunch of cows there and I looked around there and found a nice Corriente Cow horn I thought might make a good dog caller. The next day I started fooling with it and was surprised how little time it took me to complete it. Had figured it would take several hours but 2.5 hours later I was finished all but coating it "had to wait for the next time Lisa went to town to get some sealer". It blows really well is quite loud and has good tone, guess I lucked out as I had virtually no experience making one. I cut about 1.5-2 inches off the base and about 3 inches off the tip

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2022, 07:46:35 pm »

Looks good…I have 5 or 6 blow horns…I’ve got two that work really well…
One is a higher pitch cow horn that is really loud…
The other is from England…an old fox hunter horn from way back…very loud with a low pitch…several things that tells me it was used many years ago but like anything else…no real proof but my reasoning is this…the mouth piece is pewter which is about 30 percent lead…when blowing the horn, it  starts flaking off pieces of the horn…after a while the big end started cracking when blowing extra loud…I went ahead and coated it with clear epoxy to keep together…it looked brand new when I first got it so it must of been in storage for many years…I’ve had horns for over 40 years and they pretty well are in the same condition as when new…so must be very old…
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2022, 08:11:39 pm »

Looks good.

I Made one many years back.

Was at a restaurant with my kids and mother and step pop
Meeting to pick up kids in an out the way place.

Struck up a convo with ol timer at table next to me that was eyeballing me. He asked if I was the guy with the hog hunter sticker in rear window in parking lot. I said yes and we talked the rest of the meal. Come to find out we knew lot of folks in common independently.

My party and him and his wife left together and he wanted me to come to his truck. He blessed me with a goat horn still stinkin pretty good and said it’d make a good blow horn as that what he always used.

I made a horn out of it and it blows real well.

Look back in my posts and u can see picks posted fir me by a friend of mine. Probably good 4-5 years ago
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2022, 08:20:35 pm »

http://www.easttexashogdoggers.com/forum/index.php?topic=91176.msg531668#msg531668

Here is that old thread. Couldn’t find the pics but I know they was posted somewhere
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2022, 08:54:09 pm »

It's good for a horn to have an interesting story, glad you made and used it. When I was growing up lots of the old Running Hound men used a goat horn partly due to them being fairly flat and would go in their hip pocket well.

Rueben Scientifically speaking a low frequency or lower toned sound has long sound waves and are supposed to carry farther due to the fact they don't reflect off interference as bad, hills trees etc. The horn pictured in my post is of a medium tone neither high nor low and is pretty loud.
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2022, 08:08:13 am »

That’s a nice horn. I use to have one and it was loud. I just got too lazy to carry it and now there’s the “tone” button low, so I sure enough don’t carry one. They do sound good though.


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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2022, 07:25:00 pm »

Turned out nice I got couple horns that was my great grandpaws

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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2022, 10:19:15 pm »

I use the tone button too but it doesn't tell them where I am, often if they have gotten out of the country where I turned them out I need to be able to make them hear where I am rather than go back down their track.
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2022, 06:24:20 am »

That’s a good point. If I’m not where I started I usually tone then holler. So I guess maybe I should put the horn on the buggy lol.


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« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2022, 03:46:55 pm »

I never used a horn but really like a little whistle, not the silent dog whistle but a normal whistle like a P.E. coach uses...
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