Predator Expo- Columbus Ohio

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Cedarcrk

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Anybody out there go to the Predator Expo? This was my first year to go to one, I have been going to the NWTF Convention for years.

There was not as many booths as I expected but it was still a good time.

We got to meet Byron South, I cannot say enough about what a nice guy he is. He gave a good seminar and we got to spend quite a bit of time asking him question about Predator Hunting and electronic calls. Me and three other friends went to the show looking to upgrade or buy electronic calls. I was not planning on buying another FoxPro but the service that we got from FoxPro and especially the time Byron spent with us convinced us to buy from FoxPro again. We purchased two calls at the show and the other friend that went with us is ordering a call next week. I have watched Byron's videos for years and just very impressed with what a down to earth and genuine individual he is. If anyone from FoxPro is out there I hope you appreciate what a great Representative Byron is for your products!

Byron was the first reason that swayed me to stay with FoxPro but the second was important also. The FoxPro reps, I took an older 416B into them that I believe had lost some sound quality. Without any questions at all, they took the caller and my contact info. They are going to replace a bad battery wire, upgrade the keypad and check the sound quality. We worked with John Everly, also a super nice guy. We talked with a couple of other reps as well, but I did not get their names written down.

I will not mention the other two callers that we were intending to buy but due to John and Byron's customer service FoxPro earned three more dedicated customers.

Now I know someone is going to point out that the sound quality and features is what we should be looking for, and you are right. But when all things being equal or at least as far as I can tell from a booth, I am willing to give FoxPro another shot.

GO FOXPRO!

Satisfied Customer!
 
Yes I was there at the World Predator Expo and you are right about Byron South. He was very nice guy to talk with gave you alot informtion and put on a real good seminar I enjoy it very much.
 
I'll have some pictures to post tonight.

Predator Masters put together an amazing booth.

We had a blast; I got to talk with a lot of new friends.

Regards,

Rudy
 
It was a great Expo. I went up for the world calling competition and was lucky enough to win the World Coyote Vocalization championship. This was by far one of the best weekends I've had in a long time...Met a lot of guys up there that I know I'll be friends with for a long time-Congrats to Duffman for winning on Friday and Steve Criner for taking the All-Around Championship on Sunday. It was definitely an honor competing against those guys this weekend.
 
Yep, I was there all three days. Had a extra large time!
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Thanks a million to all of those who attended. It was great seeing everyone there, and the calling Championships were unbelievable!

Next years Expo will be an even better one.

Thanks again,

Jeff
 
Man that was a great time. I enjoyed hanging out with everyone. Thanks to Jeff and all the other PM staff for getting the booth together. It was great to finally meet You, Barry, Barbera, Randy, Matt and BUSTER. He was the star of the booth. He helped up set up too. Except for the fur distractions
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I'm glad I got to help out. The booth looked great and we all had a great time
Thanks
Dusty
 
Here's a few from the Expo. When I took the pictures, I couldn't find Jeff or Dusty. Sorry boys; I'm sure Kerry got you in a few of his.

Rudy

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Catwhacker, Casey Karver, Kerry Carver, Rudy, at the Predator Masters booth.

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Rudy, Casey, and Kerry, at the Carver Calls booth.
 
I really tried to make the Expo and was eager to finally meet Kerry Carver but it just didn't work out this year. He "top shelve" all the way
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Thanks for the Pics
 
hey one of the guys from here took some pics of my son friday and the official truck if u see this i would like to have copy if u ever got a good one of him pm me and i will give u email address. i walked out and forgot cam that morn.
 
World Predator Expo, Columbus Ohio

My wife and I had business up in Lexington, KY on Friday. It was very nice that we had some work to do up there and then could go on and enjoy ourselves. Part of the nice thing of this trip was leaving the little ones behind and just spending time together. I think she is getting hooked on this predator hunting idea as she watches the shows with me and seems to enjoy them.

After getting lost for a little bit we arrived at the venue. There was also a deer and turkey expo going on across the way. There was HUGE line for that event! I'll bet there were 3,000 people there! I was actually relieved that the Predator Expo had no line and after finding an ATM to pay for our tickets, we got to go in and look around.

All of the vendors we know and love from outdoors television were there. The firearms companies were well represented. CZ, Remington, DPMS, and Savage were all there. I was really struck by how nice the stocks were on the CZ rifles. Remington has a LOT of nice shotguns! My first shotgun was a Remington 1148 that my grandfather gave me; I later bought an 1100 myself, before selling it off in my divorce. After looking about and speaking with the attendees, I really want a 10 gauge for turkey, deer, and predators, but I may settle for a 12 because of ammo availability.

My wife and I went to a couple of seminars. The first one we attended was with Jeff Thomason, Todd Woodall, and Cal Ferguson. They are the stars from the TV show “Predator Pursuit”. Jeff and Todd, we found out are firemen in their “real” jobs. Cal is a full-time guide in the Texas Panhandle. They did a really good job of helping us “newbies” and answered a lot of good questions.

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When the seminar was over, I spoke with Jeff about hunting with a shotgun under the restrictions from Tennessee. He said that he has used #4 shot on coyotes and has shot a lot of them. They use a 10 gauge with some sort of coyote choke on it. Jeff just says that he aims at their head and doesn’t have any trouble taking them down. In fact he thought that a shotgun would be his choice for the close quarters of Tennessee. I don’t know if he realizes there are some open areas around East Tennessee.

The second seminar was with Al Morris from Operation Predator. He had some really good videos showing coyotes howling and challenging. He also was demonstrating a lot of different calls. One of the most interesting ideas he brought forth was to split the coyote season into three phases. This time of year he uses howls a lot to as they coyotes have love on their mind a lot. In the summer, he uses more coyote distress stuff, and in the fall it is pretty much “normal”.

He did a really good job showing how to howl, but even he admitted that he wasn’t an expert on howling. Instead of trying to learn a bunch of howls, he just learned three of them. Most of the “experts” there didn’t use howling very much, but indicated that they use it when they are about done with their stand or when they get a challenge call.

I stopped by at Game Traks to look at their electronic calls. They did look really nice and one of the guys from the GTA Forum said he would be there in the booth. (buckeyehunter). Instead his wife had other plans for him, but I stopped and they did a demo for me anyway.

The highlight of the day for me was getting to meet Les Johnson. He was very cordial and I gave him the phone number of my brother-in-law in Kansas in case he ran out of places to hunt. Les signed my Predator Quest shirt and I got my picture with him.

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Before we left we signed up for some nice raffles. I signed up for a Savage rifle raffle. They had a TON of prizes they were giving away. One product I really wanted was a pair of glasses with a camera built into them! I thought that would be such a cool thing for my outdoors show idea.

If I had to do it again, I’d go on Friday to look at all of the cool stuff. Saturday I’d just do seminars and looking at product demonstrations. Another interesting item was that local predator hunting clubs had booths there. That was pretty cool. All along the road up there and back there were dead coyotes in Ohio! That is a pretty good indication of the numbers of animals up there.
 
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