It took me a long time to kill my first bird because when I started turkey hunting I didn't know anyone else who did it and had to learn everything the hard way.
My usual hunting routine was to set up on a bird at daylight,call to him nonstop while he gobbled his head off, and as soon as he flew off the other direction, I would go home because all the other birds had quit gobbling too.

1) DO NOT over call to a bird on the roost.
2) DO NOT go home at 8:00 am because all the birds have stopped gobbling.You wont hear as many turkeys after 8:00 am,but the ones you do hear will be a lot friendlier.

Pattern your gun every year, even if you have been using the same one forever.

Try several types of ammo at different yardages from 10 yds. to 40 yds. If you don't know how and where your gun is shooting you are going to miss or cripple a bird.

Don't get skylined going to a roosted bird. Here in Eastern Kentucky, I find that a lot of birds roost just under the top of the ridge. I have boggered a lot of birds by getting skylined. Come to think of it I've boggered a lot of birds in a lot of ways.

Go pee before you get all set up, you may not get a chance later.

Pack some paper, not the newspaper though; you don't know how long you will be out there.

If it is raining, look for a low grass field, they will go to it every time in a good rain. One of my best friends taught me that one years ago and I will go out in the rain any day.

Know the sounds the birds make, even the toms. The Spit-n-Drum will give away a strutting tom that is not gobbling every time. I had my biggest bird strut up thru the woods behind me quiet as a church mouse, except for spittin' & drumin', I was calling to two in the field with a hen hoping one would come my way. I shut up when I heard him and he eased thru the woods ten yards to my left, made a bee line to my decoy, circled her once, came up behind her, dropped out of strut and met his maker.

And above all else, thank The Good Lord Above for the opportunity to be there.

Using instructions I found in an issue of Turkey and Turkey Hunting. I made my first wingbone in 1996. It was made of only two bones,and while I never harvested a bird with the call. I had some good responses from Toms. One bird, that I didn't know was close, launched off a hillside and sailed directly toward my setup. I couldn't help myself, and reached for the gun laying in my lap, needless to say the bird sailed past and took off running.

I have made several 3 bone calls, experimenting with the length of the various bones, and have come up with a call that I now consider my primary call. With it, I have harvested or called in for others several birds. (10+)

I've read that you can make all the calls on a wingbone, I can only yelp & cluck. It takes practice to get consistant yelps, but I've never had any call get a better reaction from birds. Sometimes they even "come a-runnin'".

The wingbone sounds funny up close, but at a distance it sounds like a clean, clear yelp. It is loud and works well on windy days. It doesn't matter if it gets wet. It's just the best call around, in my humble opinion.