A few tips,

1) Trim the tape so that the call fits your upper palette. If your constantly choking on the thing, that's no good.

2) Start with a double reed.

3) Be sure you have the call in properly...in general, most have a tab that points down towards your tongue. BUT, if no tab, be sure the longest reed is up against your palette and the shortest reeds are against your tongue.

4) This is a musical instrument, hence the word "reed". It needs to be "played", it require patience and practice, and you will get better with time.

5) Begin, as with any reed instrument, with passing air over the reeds to produce a constant sound. With the 2 reed, the top reed will be high pitched, and the bottom reed will be lower pitched.

6) First entice the upper reed, keeping your mouth barely open, passing a constant flow of low pressure air. It should sound like a high pitched car horn going off...

7) Once that's mastered, drop your lower jaw, keeping the same air flow/air pressure. This will activate the lower reed, and now it will sound like, Wheeeee-uuuuuppp.

8) Once you have that down, speed up the cadence. You have just produced the "yelp", which is by far the most important turkey vocalization.

9) For your first season, you will want to master the yelp, cluck and purr. In ernest, at least in my opinion, it would be better to master those 3 vocalizations rather than learning 10 and being poor to okay.

10) Practice, practice, practice. If you own a mini-recorder, record yourself outside, and then compare to audio/video tapes of actual birds. When you sound like the real deal, you're ready. Just realize, though, that I've heard live birds sound so bad I thought I had a nearby hunter with an unchalked box call---all birds sound different (pitch, tone, cadence), but the primary vocalizations have distinct patterns and lengths which you should master.

S&R