well the first year i went out and had success all i brought with me was my gun my camo and my box call and a few turkey shells and also a decoy.I think a box is easy to learn on.I would go with the quaker boy hurricane i love it very simple. Then what i did was buy a turkey hunting movie and just listened to them call and tryed to mimic the noise they made. I would also get a mouth call and start practicing with that its tuff but you will get it down with practice.after that you can start buying your slates and more mouth calls and all that fun stuff that you have to have cause your addicted. eventually you will be buying calls not cause you need to have them but you just want them so bad. i find myself buying new calls every year cause i cant help my self.