BKS
Calling is only about 10 to MAYBE 15% of turkey hunting. Don't get all caught up in different turkey calls when you are just starting out. Once you gain some experience, THEN you will be able to make a better decision about calls. Between now and then, do your home work. FIND WHERE THE TURKEYS ARE. The best way to succeed at turkey hunting is to hunt where there are turkeys.
Get out and walk woods roads looking for droppings, scratching's, dusting spots, dropped feathers, and tracks. Look for tracks in sandy ditches beside dirt roads in the woods. Look in the sand or mud along the sides of small streams. Look for turkeys in fields next to wood to lots as you drive along.
Once you have located an area where YOU KNOW turkey's are located, THEN become very familiar with it. Learn every stream, road and briar patch so that when you are in there and you hear a gobbler, you KNOW about where he is and how to approach him. If you try to slip up on a gobbler in the dark or early morning without knowing the territory, you are going to scare him off the roost.
Once you slip in to about 100 yards or so, stop and set up there.(Get your back against a tree larger than you are. Get your mask and gloves on. Get out your call(s) and place them within easy reach. Check your gun and make sure it is ready.) Then make several yelps with a common box call. It does not have to be fancy and just about any of the commercial calls will do to begin with. They are easy to use and difficult to screw up calling with them. Once a gobbler answers you, he knows within shotgun range where you are because HE KNOWS the territory too.
If you are confident in your calling, continue to call. If not, then clucks will do because he CAN HEAR YOU if he has already answered at least once. Be patient and stay alert. They don't always come straight in and sometimes there is more than one turkey that will come and they may or may not gobble at all.
Your woods craft and hunting skills are more important than calling, so don't get caught up in all the "toys" that are available to turkey hunters. Kill a couple of turkeys with basic gear first and then you can go to the toy store better prepared to make good decisions.
All the best to you.
