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Greg
is six-time Michigan state turkey calling champion and two-time
deer calling and rattling champion.
He ranks #1 in Michigan for wild turkey entries in the state
record book. He currently has the Michigan state record and the
#2 typical
turkeys taken with bow. Greg is a long-time advocate, and practitioner,
of hunting with an open mind, seeing what’s there, and
adapting your hunting techniques as needed to be consistently
productive.
He is host of A-Way Outdoors television program. Greg also produces turkey and
deer hunting videos. He is a professional turkey hunting guide with over 95 percent
success rate. |
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John has bowhunted 43 years and has put
22 whitetails in the Michigan record book (20 bow; 2 muzzleloader)
without owning or leasing any property, and many have come from
state land. He has written or co-written “Bowhunting Pressured
Bucks” and “Precision Bowhunting” books, produced a DVD set
on bowhunting pressured bucks and an instructional DVD titled “Archery
Mechanics” to teach you how to shoot, choose the proper bow and accessories
for hunting
He writes for Deer & Deer Hunting, Petersen’s Bowhunting, Bowhunter,
Bow & Arrow Hunting, Michigan Sportsman, Michigan Out of Doors and Woods ‘n’ Water
News. |
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Byron, the archery trick shot man, is a spectacularly good archer
and an excellent bowhunter. He has performed in the U.S., Canada,
France, Italy, Spain, Sweden,
Chile and Japan for crowds up to 50,000. His most nerve-wracking shot was
when he put an arrow through the finger stall of a $17,000 diamond
ring on Japanese
television. Byron proudly bears the honorary Jicarilla Apache name “Tdo-ee-cee-ee”,
which means “The one who does not miss”.
He continues to make regular appearances on outdoor television programs
and some ‘extreme’ sports
programs.
He has written “Become The Arrow” and produced two videos on the
same topic. |
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Judy has made mighty fine meals over the years from whitetail
deer, mule deer, black bear, elk, moose, pronghorn and roadkill.
The latter was done out of
curiosity, to see how far around blood-shot meat you must cut before the
meat tastes as it should. (Blood-shot meat tastes like low grade
rubber tire.) See
page 30 for the way things are supposed to taste. In a previous life, Judy
was an extension home economist. Then she married a hunter and discovered
she liked camping and fishing and hunting and all that. |
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Art began hunting 25 years ago under the instruction of his father
and grandmother. His interest grew into an obsession to hunt nearly
every big game species across
North America. Thus far, he has harvested animals from six big game species
and four turkey species. To assist him in scouting, he takes advantage
of the tools and technology available including aerial and topographical
maps and
trail cameras.
Art and his wife, Michelle, also film and hunt with the Archer’s Choice
and The Choice TV shows.
He has planted food plots for years and practices woodland management on
his 40-acre property. He has recently completed timber stand improvement
and pond
projects and is eager to share what he has learned. |
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A lifelong resident of upstate New York, and a full-time professional
gun writer for decades, Dave Henderson has hunted in 29 states
and 10 Canadian provinces.
He is considered the foremost authority in the country on shotguns for
deer hunting and has a long and diverse background in muzzleloading
rifles. He has
written five books on guns and hunting, contributed to four others and
is a field editor for Buckmasters Whitetail, GunHunter, Gun Tests
and North American
Bear magazines.
A member of the Shooting Advisory Staff for North American Hunter, Dave
is also a regular contributor to the NRA’s American Hunter and Deer & Deer
Hunting.
The press liaison for the shotgun sports at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta,
Dave also formerly served as outdoors correspondent for United Press International.
He is a former big game guide in Idaho, state champion taxidermist and a
competitive trapshooter. |
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Bill is a journeyman meat cutter and an avid all-around outdoorsman.
He began cutting meat in 1960 and processing wild game in 1965.
Bill will show you
how to "fillet" a deer and use the techniques you learn
from his DVD on wild game processing. These techniques can be used
on all the wild game
you harvest. |
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Tony has been in the land management (for whitetails) business
since 1995. Tony and his associate Chris Pierson (a childhood friend)
have
visited, laid out food
plots, created deer beds specifically for bucks and does, selected stand
locations, etc. on more than 70,000 acres of hunting and farm land.
Tony specializes in
small acreages (155-acre client average). You can have top quality habitat
and deer action on small pieces of land. Tony owns 52 acres in
southern Michigan,
with only 25 wooded, and has taken seven bucks that gross over 150 B&C on
that small parcel. He’s been consistent for more than 20 years on trophy
class whitetails ... 29 in all.
Gordon Whittington, producer of the North American Whitetail television show,
says “Over the years, I’ve been able to pick the brains of many of
the world’s best deer hunters and managers. I can honestly say that Tony’ ideas
and techniques are unique – and they work in the real world.” |
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Richard is an award winning outdoor writer and photographer living
in Marquette, Michigan. He has hunted whitetail deer and black
bear more than 40 years and
is a recognized expert on behavior and biology of both species. In 1997
he won the Ben East Prize from the Michigan United Conservation
Clubs for conservation
journalism about bear management. and the Outdoor Journalist of the Year
Award from the Flint (MI) Chapter of Safari Club International.
Smith has written 22 books, 10 of which remain in print, and thousands
of magazine articles., He contributes to Michigan Sportsman, Woods-N-Water
News
and Porcupine
Press. He’s a field editor for Bear Hunting Magazine and Michigan Hooks & Bullets,
and he writes/edits the Michigan Bear Hunters Association newsletter. His writing
and photography appear regularly in Deer & Deer Hunting, Buckmasters, North
American Whitetail, Bowhunter and National Wildlife.
Richard has collected a CBM Grand Slam, only the second person to do so.
To qualify, you must take Michigan deer, bear, elk and turkey that qualify
for listing in
state records maintained by Commemorative Bucks of Michigan (CBM). |
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Thirty one years after his first out-of-state adventure hunt
to the Rockies, Ron Spomer continues to prospect the West for elk,
mule deer, pronghorns, waterfowl
and upland gamebirds. He has camped under the stars, in backpack tents,
canvas tents, pickup campers and old cabins while discovering some
of the finest hunting
adventures on Earth, many of them on public land, free for the discovering.
"Diversity is the wonderful thing about hunting the West," Ron says. "It’s
possible, even common, to take three species of upland birds in a single morning,
sometimes five! An elk hunter may be able to hunt mule deer and pronghorn at
the same time. And coyotes are ubiquitous. With the right planning, anyone
can engineer an inexpensive hunt, mountain or prairie, with the right degree
of physical
challenge and cost.”
Spomer, a widely published hunting writer and host of Winchester Legends
and Whitetail Revolution on the Versus network, has written Big Game Hunter’s
guidebooks to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
He writes regularly for Sports Afield, Sporting Classics, Successful Hunter,
Rifle, Gun Hunter, American Hunter and many other sporting publications. |
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Ed has messed around with, and also worked hard at, food plots
and their planning, creation and analysis since 1984. There’s little he hasn’t seen,
done or tried in making his food plots more productive and deer attractive.
That makes him an excellent source of food plot information. He’s a
member of the national board of directors of the Quality Deer Management
Association
and the author of two books on food plots -- Wildlife Food Plots and Ultimate
Deer Food Plots -- and a DVD on the latter title. |
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