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Continuation and expansion of the program/seminars
begun in 2007. Gordon Whittington (food plots -
basic and advanced) and Tony LaPratt (deer habitat
creation and improvement) return, each with longer
seminars.
Check the seminar schedule
for each expo to see exact seminar topic, seminar
description and times. Seminars will be given more
than once each day.
There's a lot of ground
to be covered (no pun intended). We'll divide the
general topics into workable segments and address
them one by one over the next few years.
At the introductory demo areas in 2007, you told
us you would like to see what the individual forage
crop and other nutrition source plants look like.
So that's what you will see in 2008 -- nursery flats
of various grain crops, grasses and other deer (and
turkey and non-game species) feed sources, one species
per flat.
This 52-page, info-packet guide book will again
be for sale at the Food Plot Demo Area. There's
more good info per page in this little booklet than
you'll find in any other book. If you want a copy
immediately for use this year, go to the Books page
of this web-site.
Climb the big stairway to a bigger platform for
a bird's-eye view of the exhibit floor, then get
some good info on treestand safety, where-to-aim
info (deer & bear) and other hunting tips.
Trail cameras see some strange things ... and some
great big antlers ... when no humans are around.
Since they are new products, by their very nature
they change every year. New products from exhibiting
manufacturers and company sales representatives
are displayed together in one area near the entrance
for your viewing and inspection ease.
All products are identified
by exhibitor name and booth number for easy follow-up
to get detailed info you want. Many people don't
want a sales person hanging on their elbow when
they first look at a new product. This is the perfect
opportunity to examine new products on your own.
To find this special display,
after you have purchased your general admission
ticket, go through the right-hand bank of glass
doors in the lobby. You'll see the yellow banners
with the black NEW PRODUCTS lettering on the north
wall of the East Arena.
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All seminars are FREE once
you have purchased your admission ticket. |
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Seminar schedule will be
posted as soon as it is completed. |
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Most speakers and topics change
every year. The food plot topic (see above)
is one of the few that have become continuous,
but even here we vary the specific subject
matter within the broad food plot field. |
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Bill Hesselgrave and his venison butchering
demonstrations also return annually. People
like to review Bill's demonstrations to be
sure they heard right and remembered right
when it came time to do their own venison
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The place to see NEW PRODUCTS and talk face-to-face
with factory reps and other knowledgeable industry
people. Get your equipment and accessories questions
answered here.
(An alphabetical list of exhibitors will be published
45 days before the Expo and updated weekly.)
- Centerfire firearms, black powder and archery
gear.
- Accessories - scopes, binoculars, game and bird
calls, tree stands, GPS, scents and lures, hunting
blinds, deer feeds, knives, camouflage and other
hunting clothing, footwear ... and a lot more.
- Wild game cooking and seasonings, cooking equipment
and supplies, jerky and sausage.
- Guides and outfitters from throughout the United
States and Canada for all types of big game.
- Wildlife art, books and magazine publishers, video
producers.
- Decorative products for the Outdoor Lifestyle
... den decorations, log creations, metal sculpting
... a wide variety of neat-looking products.
Enter in the main lobby of the Four Seasons Centre.
Registration table will be in the West Arena. Follow
the signs. For details, go to the Contest
Page.
Binoculars and firearms scopes to try out and learn
to adjust better for maximum value, maximum use
satisfaction.
A cooking demo will follow each venison butchering
& processing demonstration, in the same seminar
room. The cooking demo also includes meat packaging,
freezing, thawing, seasoning, and serving tips.
Come prepared to make notes, and be ready to sample
some great flavors.
It's true that kids probably enjoy these ranges
the most, but who is to specify the true age limits
of kids! Airgun, laser firearms, laser archery,
NASP (National Archery in Schools Program) archery
range are operated under the watchful, instructive
eyes of adult range masters for best learning and
safe operation. One laser range has big game video
footage complete with sound; one has video game-type
action. Equipment provided at all ranges.
Byron Ferguson and his entertaining archery trick
shooting is an annual regular, simply because he's
so much fun to see. He will give two performances
Saturday, March 8 and two performances Sunday, March
9.
He shoots wooden discs and pennies
from the air, snuffs a candle with an arrow, shoots
ricochet arrows into a target's bullseye, and bursts
inflated balloons while shooting from all sorts
of twisted positions.
Ferguson is a veteran bowhunter
and has taken more than 180 whitetails, plus black
bear, a record-book mule deer, moose and game birds.
Your entire family will
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in a glass case and nearly
life-size artwork of the whitetail deer skeleton
identifying every bone. See how deer are put
together. Figure out best aiming point-of-impact
for quickest results, where to shoot and where
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Provided by Minnesota Trappers Association |
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See stone arrowheads, spear points, knives
and axes made the same as they were made thousands
of years ago AND see meat cutting demonstrations
with the stone knives. The results are impressive.
Stone work by Art Boehm, Conrath, Wisconsin |
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