Pushpin calls are usually adequate, but they don't sound as good as other turkey-call types. Lacking that opportunity, buy an instructional video or audio cassette and practice making the sounds along with the tape. The basic hen turkey calls include yelp, cluck, purr and cackle. You can imitate the sounds of a turkey flying down from the roost by flapping your hunting cap against your body. A wild turkey is fully mature at age 2 but birds don't reach bragging-sized dimensions until age 3 or older.
Most turkey hunters judge birds by weight and beard length.
Twenty pounds is a big turkey, and any beard longer than nine inches is considered good. The National Wild Turkey Federation has created a scoring system for comparing birds. To determine your prize bird's NWTF score, add the weight plus 10 times the length of both spurs plus two times the beard length. Birds with multiple beards are considered non-typicals. There is no minimum score required to enter a bird.