BOB WOZNIAK - A GREAT NORTHERN TURKEY HUNTER
Endure Pain And Don't Be A Copycat
EDITOR'S
NOTE: Bob Wozniak of Boston, New York, one of the true
masters of the sport of turkey hunting in New York State
and a member of the Quaker Boy Calls' Hunt Team, has
hunted turkeys for more than 30 years. He's bagged a
gobbler or called in a gobbler for someone to take every
year that New York has had a turkey season. Let's look
this week at some of Wozniak's best northern tactics
for taking toms in the spring, since many northern states
still are
having turkey seasons.
Regardless of the type of insect repellent you use,
bugs always seem to aggravate you in the springtime
when you've got a gobbler close to you. You'll find
developing the ability to grin and bear bug bites a
tremendous advantage to successful turkey hunting. "Even
when you can't see the turkey but have a gobbler close,
don't move," Wozniak cautioned. A few years ago,
Wozniak and a friend had sat down next to a big tree
with a gobbler about 75 yards in front of them out of
sight. "When my hunting partner felt a
bug chewing on his forehead, he reached up to swat it,"
Wozniak recalled. "He didn't realize a second very-big
gobbler with a long beard was sneaking in to our left.
But my friend spooked the gobbler he hadn't see when
he swatted the mosquito. That bird gave an alarm putt
and ran off, spooking the tom coming in to our calling
out in front of us." Often when you sit down to
call a turkey, you'll call in more than one gobbler.
But once you've made the decision to call the bird to
you, sit as still as possible. If the bugs start biting,
just learn to grin and bear it.
Don't
Be A Copycat:
Wozniak has discovered that by changing calls he can
bag more turkeys than if he uses the same type of call
everyone else in an area does. "If everyone where
I hunt uses a diaphragm call, I'll use a Quaker Boy
Easy Yelper, a push-button call, a box call or a slate
call," Wozniak commented. "I want to use a
different call than the other hunters in the woods do.
I really believe that gives me an advantage."
TOMORROW: KNOW WHICH TURKEYS
TO GO TO
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