Last year at the Grand Nationals I met the son of one of our members here Doug Lewis, his son Jack, who had no experience with calling wanted to enter the youth calling contest. he had no call, so I took him over to HS and they went through several calls before deciding on a lil' box call. He was shown how to hold and to run it right there on the spot! And let me tell you something in less time the it takes for me to shave, he was yelping on that box like a pro. My personal recommendations is a box call. Nothing expensive but one that produces the sounds of a bird. You will be surprised at his level of improvement in just a short time.