Teams were given three actual hunting situations and had up to two minutes to address the situations given. Each situation required teams to perform certain compulsory calls. Judges scored based on: 1.Completion of compulsory calls, 2. Realistic wild turkey sound and cadence, 3. Quality and precision 4.Creativity. Contestants must have been at least 21 years old and current members of the National Wild Turkey Federation..$6,000 in prize money was divided among the winning teams.

SITUATION ONE: EARLY SPRING – DAYBREAK- GOBBLER WITH HENS
You are on a ridge top in northwestern Nebraska. You’ve roosted several gobblers the evening before in the canyon below you. Now, three gobblers are gobbling at each other down in the canyon and hens are responding all around them. You know from the past few days that the hens will lead the gobblers away from your aggressive calling.

Objective: Call one of these gobblers away from the hens.
Approximate Distance: 200 yards
Compulsory Calls: Gobbling, aggressive fight purr, excited yelps, excited cutting.

SITUATION TWO: FALL—MIDMORNING—MIXED FLOCK OF HENS AND JAKES
You scattered this flock just after they came off the roost, with most of the turkeys separating well. You set up at the scatter point, and the turkeys have already started to call. It sounds like a few birds have gotten together just out of sight below you and several others are yelping from opposite directions.

Objective: Before they all have a chance to get back together, call one of these scattered turkeys into range.
Approximate Distances: 150-300 yards
Compulsory Calls: kee kee runs, assembly calls, caller’s best call, Jake yelps & Jake kalking.

SITUATION THREE: LATE SPRING—LATE MORNING—LONE GOBBLER
You are walking an old logging road on heavily hunted public land in middle Georgia. Fortunately, the trucks that were parked at every gate at daylight are long gone. You’re hoping to start a gobbler with locator calls, then call him in.

Objective: Start up, then call this educated, public-land gobbler into range.
Approximate Distance: 400 yards
Compulsory calls: Soft yelps (2-3 note) contented purrs & clucks, soft scratching in leaves, soft do-whit calls and whines mixed with purrs, pileated woodpecker or crow locator call.

Contestants were judged on their imitation of a minimum of four kinds of turkey calls during the preliminary contest and five calls during the finals. These calls were selected from among a long list of sounds wild turkeys make, including: cluck, putt, tree call before flying down time, cutting, adult hen giving assembly call, whistle and call of a lost turkey (kee kee run), kee kee, purring, plain yelp of a hen, fly down cackle, or the caller's best call.

This contest was open to any person who was a first place winner in an NWTF sanctioned Open, State, National Senior Division, or World Open Division calling contest between January 1, 2003 and January 30, 2004. The reigning Grand National Champion and World Champion automatically qualified. Contestants must have been current members of the National Wild Turkey Federation and at least 21 years old. $11,500 in prize money was divided among the winners.

2004 NWTF Gobbling Contest

Contestants were judged on their ability to imitate the gobble of the wild turkey. Contestants must have been at least 21 years old and current members of the National Wild Turkey Federation. $1,200 in prize money was divided among the winners.
 

2004 NWTF Spit, Drum and Gobbling Show

Contestants were judged on performance’s entertainment value. Contestants were encouraged to strut, gobble, drum and do a wild turkey dance for the audience. The contestants were allowed to use an object or person as the subject of their performance. The contestants were not allowed to talk as part of their performances. Contestants were encouraged to employ creative costumes. Contestants must have been at least 21 years old and current members of the National Wild Turkey Federation. Trophies and cash prizes were given to the top three highest scoring contestants.