OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS – Forgive suburban Kansas City coyotes if they are feeling a bit self-important these days.
An envious collection of predator hunting talent from all points on the compass rolled into town Aug. 22 to 24 for the World Predator & Hunting Expo. The Expo featured a stellar lineup of how-to demonstrations, a multitude of vendors displaying a dazzling array of predator calls and hunting equipment, and a world championship predator calling competition.
Household names in the predator calling industry, such as Gerry Blair, Randy Anderson, Byron South, Gerald Stewart, Les Johnson and Tad Brown could be found working vendor booths. Stunning custom mouth calls crafted from exotic woods adorned tables, and the latest electronic callers, decoys and predator guns were right there to touch and try.
Mike Dillon of FoxPro showed me the company’s newest e-caller, the Fury. He said it can hold 500 sounds, which is absolutely astonishing to me. I know other digital calls have incredible capacity, too. Not so long ago we were flipping cassette tapes with repetitive short loops of the same squalls. Now we have 500 choices at the touch of a button or two. Amazing.
A few booths away, Byron South was touting the virtues of Remington Arms new ARs designed specifically for predator hunting. When major firearms manufacturers start making predator hunting guns, the sport has arrived!
The success of this event also points to the growing popularity of predator hunting. Promoter Brent Rueb, who also runs Predator Sniper Products, put together a very professional event. The vendor area was continually abuzz with predator hunters, while the demos drew standing-room-only crowds. Tension and anticipation ran high during the predator calling championships. I’ll write more about the calling competition (I was a judge for the howling event) in another blog entry. I will tell you here that the competition was extremely strong.
The resounding sentiment from people I spoke with about the Expo was, “I can’t wait until next year’s show.”
Although it hasn’t been set in stone, I heard the 2009 Expo is likely to be in Ohio. I will confirm the time and place with Rueb and announce it here.
An envious collection of predator hunting talent from all points on the compass rolled into town Aug. 22 to 24 for the World Predator & Hunting Expo. The Expo featured a stellar lineup of how-to demonstrations, a multitude of vendors displaying a dazzling array of predator calls and hunting equipment, and a world championship predator calling competition.
Household names in the predator calling industry, such as Gerry Blair, Randy Anderson, Byron South, Gerald Stewart, Les Johnson and Tad Brown could be found working vendor booths. Stunning custom mouth calls crafted from exotic woods adorned tables, and the latest electronic callers, decoys and predator guns were right there to touch and try.
Mike Dillon of FoxPro showed me the company’s newest e-caller, the Fury. He said it can hold 500 sounds, which is absolutely astonishing to me. I know other digital calls have incredible capacity, too. Not so long ago we were flipping cassette tapes with repetitive short loops of the same squalls. Now we have 500 choices at the touch of a button or two. Amazing.
A few booths away, Byron South was touting the virtues of Remington Arms new ARs designed specifically for predator hunting. When major firearms manufacturers start making predator hunting guns, the sport has arrived!
The success of this event also points to the growing popularity of predator hunting. Promoter Brent Rueb, who also runs Predator Sniper Products, put together a very professional event. The vendor area was continually abuzz with predator hunters, while the demos drew standing-room-only crowds. Tension and anticipation ran high during the predator calling championships. I’ll write more about the calling competition (I was a judge for the howling event) in another blog entry. I will tell you here that the competition was extremely strong.
The resounding sentiment from people I spoke with about the Expo was, “I can’t wait until next year’s show.”
Although it hasn’t been set in stone, I heard the 2009 Expo is likely to be in Ohio. I will confirm the time and place with Rueb and announce it here.
Photo: Byron South shows off Remington line of predator guns to a father and son at the World Predator & Hunting Expo in Overland Park, Kan.
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5 comments:
Hey Paul,
Welcome to the new stand and thank you for creating it. Looking forward to visiting in the future.
May there always be fur in your scope. Good Luck!
Mike Wilhite
Hi Paul,
You have served us well over the last decade, can't wait to see where this goes. Lets get together soon and squeal and peal one.
Best always,
Tad Brown
Hi Paul,
It was really good to see you again at the expo. Good luck on your new endeavor. Let me know if there is anything we can do to help.
Randy Black
PredatorMasters.Inc
PredatorMasters.Com
Sure glad to have you back, realy miss your work
Bill Pa.
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