Complete lessons on yelping, cutting, and gobbling techniques.
Browse turkey calls with detailed breakdowns.
Understand gobbler patterns and hen behavior.
Practice calling in virtual forest environments.
Learn about box calls, slate calls, and mouth calls.
Connect with other hunters working the same calls.
Pick the turkey call you actually carry — box, pot, or diaphragm. It turns so you can see it, and it comes apart so you can see why it sounds the way it does — reeds, tone board, bore, length. Where a number has not been measured yet we say so instead of guessing.
turkey champion references: 0 — not yet recorded duck: 70 measured masters goose: 7 measured masters
Straight answer: no measured champion turkey references exist yet. The canonical reference library holds 70 duck masters and 7 goose masters because those camps’ champions recorded them — Kent Cullum for duck, Hunter Grounds for goose. Turkey is on the same road: when a turkey champion sits down to record, this shelf fills with measured references the same way, and our patented Animal Call Comparison Tool (U.S. Pat. 12,646,526) will score your yelp against the real thing.
Until then, Otis Rayburn — your TSI guide, an original Translator Series character, not a champion or a real person — coaches technique here, and training runs on curated recordings rather than champion-measured references. That is the roadmap, and we will not blur the difference.
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A turkey vest should leave room for three calls: a slate or glass pot call for soft yelps and purrs, a diaphragm mouth call for hands-free cutting, and a box call for the far-off locator yelp at first light.
Stage a strutter-and-hen decoy combo twenty yards off the setup to give a henned-up tom something to come fight for. A full-camo pattern vest with a drop seat and a low-magnification red-dot or 3x scope on your shotgun round out the kit.
Items above are widely available at Cabela’s and other major outdoor retailers.