To mimic a turkey's cacophonous voice, a wide variety of devices are used. There are slate calls, box calls, snuff box calls, wingbone calls and diaphragm calls. A few clever hunters even use their own voice. A mouth call might take a little longer. The best way to learn how to call turkeys is to listen to a farmer's birds.
Turkeys are very vocal.
They yelp, cluck, purr and cackle. According to Hinkle, getting started in the sport is not as expensive as one might think. Add camouflage gear and ammunition and you're set. If turkey hunting were simply about shooting birds, most hunters would probably be joining the rest of us in the frozen foods section of the supermarket, where the Butterballs are kept. There is obviously much more to the sport.