Joe,
Nothing beats good calling. And nothing hurts worse than bad calling or over calling.
If you are new to turkey hunting and want to put a bird on the ground, spend some time watching your hunting lands to see where the birds like to be. They follow some predictable patterns. If you are not proficient with the call, get some good quality decoys, a blind and set it up in a highly visible (to the turkeys) location and leave your call at home. Set blind up near a point out in a field, or in an open area between the swamp/roost and fields. Once again, the scouting will help you locate bird ambush points.
Once you have your location, get in well before daybreak and set your decoys up 25 yard out for shotgun, 12-15 yards out for bow, and sit tight. If you are decent with a call, you can call every 20-30 minutes, but keep volume low. If you have a bird hammer at you, you can call again, and if he hammers back, put your call down and get ready. He might run in, or he may take 3 hours, but he knows where the "hen" is and he will come looking.
If you have other questions, feel free to PM me. I can share with you 30+ years of my turkey hunting experience. Once you have called in a thunderchicken be prepared to be hooked for life. It can be an addiction.
While there are good decoys on the market, if you plan to turkey hunt for many years, and investment in DSD's or Avian X is always a good start.
Once you are proficient in calling, you can decide to leave the blind and decoys at home, and just find the birds on the roost and work close enough to call them from the roost to your freezer.
Roger