Yes it is back and a ton of new products to show this year at the 18 Annual Buckmasters Expo. To enter the show all you have to do is bring a can of food which goes to the Montgomery Area Food Bank. Over 3000 lbs of canned food was brought in last year and we are looking to make it better this year. This year the will be special guest Bill and Tyler Jordan from Realtree, Greg Miller from In Pursuit, Matt Busbice from Wildgame Innovations, Willie Robertson from Buck commander, and Swamp People Troy and Jacob Landry. Yes even our favorite Mr. Buckmaster himself Jackie Bushman will be there.

This years show will have over 300 booths with all kinds of outdoor gear to choose from. The show will begin at the Montgomery Convention Center at 201 Tallapoosa street Montgomery,AL on Friday Aug. 19 and go through Sunday Aug. 21. On Friday the doors will open to the public at 3pm-9pm. Saturday the 20th at 9am-7pm and Sunday the 21st 10am-5pm. Saturday night Buckmasters will host a members only concert with country legend Sammy Kershaw at 8pm.

The Buckmasters Top Bow Indoor World Championship will take place at the event also. See shooters such as Brian Goza (Bryant, AL), Joseph Goza (Flat Rock, AL), Jackie Caudle (Gadsden, AL), and Justin Martin  (Enterprise, AL). See which one of these shooters and more try to lay claim to this once a year event to have their name placed on the trophy. In the list of these few names Joseph Goza is a four time winner, Jackie Caudle a two time winner and Justin Martin the 2003 winner.  The tournament will begin Friday evening and go through Sunday evening. One winner will take home $15,000  in prize money and a new Yamaha ATV.

For those of you who follow Hello Hunting on a regular bases will also see me there helping out  Mr. Rex Holmes Jr. from Vapor Trail Scents at booth #387. So feel free to stop by and chat a bit and check out the products that we have to offer you. There will be tons of things to do at the Expo this year even for the children. The Young Bucks exhibit will be on hand for children to have a little fun from just walking around and hanging with dad and mom all day. They will get the chance to see Bucky the Buckmasters Mascot and have all the fun in the world while doing so.

Ever thought about becoming an official BTR scorer? Now is your chance! On Saturday there will be a official Buckmasters scoring clinic held to get you a chance to become official scorer. Also do not forget to bring in your trophy deer for display and have it scored to possibly be placed into the Buckmasters Trophy Records. There will be fun for the whole family this year at the 2011 Buckmasters Expo. All you have to do is show up and bring a can of food per a person each day to enter. If you have any other questions about this years Expo feel free to call Buckmasters at 1-800-240-Deer(3337). I hope to see you there in August!

As a non-profit organization it takes a great deal of money and time to keep it going. But time and money is not everything to this organization. It is more than that. When I first met Michael Hatten a few years ago he told me of this non-profit organization that helped people with disabilities to enjoy life in the outdoors just as we do ourselves.

He also told me of a man who changed the way we see others. A man of courage and a heart as big as the sun would shine. Kirk Thomas was the mans name and when I finally got my chance to meet him in Greenville, Alabama at the Robert Trent Jones golf course he also change the way I looked at life. I had the pleasure of going with Michael to a few of the banquets that OWL had and it really opened my eyes to see how much people did care about others who doesn’t get the chance to enjoy the outdoors as we do.

OWL is a type of organization that allows others to do as we do in the great outdoors. Mossy Oak had an advertisement once on the back of a magazine that read the following:

” Mother Nature has given us so much.

Isn’t it about time we give a little back. “

So isn’t it about time we give back to the less fortunate? Isn’t it time to give back to the one’s we care about? We think of things day in and day out and we don’t think about the things that we should think about. It does take a little time to do certain things in the outdoors but we should make the best of this time and put forth the effort to give back.

OWL has many chapters around that one can help or get involved in by going to a banquet or helping out at one of the outdoor events that a chapter holds in its area. If you have any questions or want to donate time or money to OWL just click here at OWL and see what they have to offer and how they may be able to help you as well. The Crenshaw County Chapter of OWL will host a Get-N-Hooked Day at the Crenshaw County Lake located at 1075 county lake road Luverne, AL on May 14, 2011. The event is set to begin at 10:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM. The age group is for kids between the ages of 2 and 15 years of age accompanied by an adult. There will be music by various local musicians and a lunch will also be provided. Door prizes will be awarded and also prizes for biggest fish, smallest fish, and most unusual catch. If you would like to find out more about this event log onto Facebook and search for event Get-N-Hooked Day. Remember that this non-profit organization can make it without limits.

For seventeen years Jackie Bushman and his staff has put on a hunting expo for the whole world to see. They have done wonders with this event even when it was held in North Carolina. The city of Montgomery has been so grateful to have such a wonderful outdoor company in its town for everyone to enjoy.

This years country music artist are Tracey Lawrence and Confederate Railroad whom will give a live concert to the Buckmasters members. This concert will take place at 8 pm on Saturday night Aug 21. If you are not a member yet of Buckmasters then you can still attend the Expo with an admission charge of just a can of food. This food will go towards the local Montgomery area food bank.

There is fun at this years expo for all ages.

So no matter how young or old you may be still come and enjoy all the excitement. Outdoor celebrities such as Realtree’s Bill Jordan and other big names such as Fred Eichler and Buckmasters own Jackie Bushman will also be on site for this years Buckmasters Expo 2010.

The Young Bucks area will also be set up for kids with shooting simulators of guns and bows. As I have already said the whole family and all ages are welcome to attend. Let’s work on having one of the greatest expo’s ever this year.

Me and Justin Tadlock who is the designer and web guy for us here at Hello Hunting will be on hand at booth 387 helping out Mr.Rex Holmes who is the owner of Vapor Trail Scents. I encourage all to stop by and say hello to the Vapor Trail Scent team and the Pro Staff of your one and only Hello Hunting.

This years can’t miss action is held all together in one fun-filled packed weekend at the Montgomery Convention Center which is located downtown Montgomery, AL.  If you have any questions about the 2010 Expo call 1-800-240-3337 or click here at Buckmasters.com for more info. Hope all will attend and hope to see y’all there.

Talk Hunting has grown each year and the staff at talk hunting work so hard to keep it going. With sponsors such as the Whitetail Institute of North America, Dead Down Wind, and Hunter’s Safety systems you can get all kinds of answers from people just like you and me.

Just for signing up at talk hunting you have chances to win free prizes each month just by posting and replying to other members post. The site is set up as a forum and with its thousands of members and still growing it has new things to talk about daily.

You don’t have to just talk to each member on the site to find out things about hunting and fishing. There are also pictures posted by members of harvested game and let me say that there has been some mighty big deer taken by these members. Hunters and fishermen just like you and me from all over the United States come to visit talk hunting each day and night.

I have seen other hunting forums such as HuntingNet.com, and ArcheryTalk.com but none of them comes close to talk hunting in my mind. All you have to do is click here at Talk Hunting and sign up for free to get started. Make post and ask questions to build your chances up at winning free prizes each month given out by the sponsors they have. So what are you waiting for? Get to the site fast and check it out.

Tell them you heard it from Hello Hunting…

When writing for an Outdoor paper, magazine, and a web site there is so much that can be written on. It is almost like trying to come up with new words for a special book. I would almost say that on a count of 100 words to 100 words that the Aurthur Tom Kelly dose not have as much trouble of coming up with words to go into his own books.

Tom Kelly is by far one of the greatest outdoor writers of this time. I say this to you as the reader that this is my own opinion and i do not wish to change it by any means necessary. When he writes it’s like words just fall into place and you seem to read them one after another and they just make since. Some would disagree and say that he is not the best writer of this time but we are all entitled to our own opinion.

What comes to mind when you hear the word Outdoors? It can mean many things in this day and age. It is like the adds that you read on the back of some everyday outdoor magazine that is there for one reason. That reason is to promote the company that has paid for that add. The adds that I enjoy reading the most are like the one’s that just come from the heart. Let’s take a look at Mossy Oak adds and just sit and read one and think of what you may read while you read it. Here is one for example.

” Law of Nature ”
” It’s a law of nature: the more dirt gets under your fingernails, the higher your spirit gets lifted.”

There are plenty more of where this add comes from and you can find it at Mossy Oak. I have to say that even when Realtree placed add’s they never even matched up to Mossy Oak. These two companies are competing for who has the best camo. But Mossy Oak go’s further than that.

Mossy Oak also works best with Biologic, a seed blend for every type of wildlife out there that mother nature has to put forward to us. Whitetail Institute has planted over 1 million acres but I would say that Biologic is rite there with them if not equal.

Outdoor companies compete each and every year for something new to be placed on the shelf. There is still thousands of things out there to be discovered and it only take a little time in the outdoors to do it. When it comes to camo I will more than likely choose Realtree over Mossy Oak but i have had my chances to plant Whitetail Institute products and here in the south the Biologic brand is just a little better.

As Toxey Haas once said: ” It all started with a fist full of dirt.”

I first learned about Outdoors Without Limits (OWL) from a great friend named Michael Hatten from Goshen,Alabama. I went to a couple of their banquets and helped Michael and his crew set up for a couple of them. To my acknowledge I didn’t really understand until one night in Highland Home,AL what OWL was all about.

The more that I listened to Michael the more I learned. He had told me that a man by the name of Kirk Thomas had introduced him to OWL and the first time he had met him he did not realize that this man was in a wheel chair. When Kirk had gotten out of his truck he had told Michael “Let’s go change the way you look at life.”

Those words are the same words that Michael had told me and they will forever more stick in my head until the day I die. OWL is an organization that was designed to bring people like me and you closer to people with disabilities like kids and adults of all ages. The money raised in the annual banquets that are held are for the chapters of OWL. This money can be there for a chapter to host a disabled hunt or fishing trip for kids and adults of all ages in your community.

The recreational outreach program, Outdoors Without Limits, is leading a nationwide effort to pull together communities committed to help reduce the barriers that prevent disabled people from enjoying the great outdoors.Together, we will help change stereotypes about what defines “ability”. And, through action, we build relationships that change spirits and lives.

Approximately 100 disabled participants and their guide partners will hit the deer wood’s during the 3rd weekend in January. Please join us as we kick off this great weekend full of fun and opportunity. This is a national event hosted by the Troy chapter of Outdoors Without Limits. This fun-filled weekend will have plenty to do of all ages and will be held at Swindall RV Park 162 County Road 5516 “Swindall Road” Troy, Alabama 36081. For more information on this event you can call (334).566.8353 or (334).482.2444 or you can call Michael Hatten at (770).722.5905.

Remember that the way we look at life today could change tomorrow with your help in getting involved and hosting an OWL event in your town. You will never regret helping the one’s you love and the one’s less fortunate.

I have been a member of the National Wild Turkey Federation for a long time now. As of April 2009 I have been a chapter president for four years and I hope that I can continue my journey onward for a long time to come.

The NWTF is a nonprofit organization that dose many thing for many causes. Like the chapter I am over is located in Georgaina, AL and is a small chapter. We usually average about fifty to eighty people show up every April for our NWTF Hunting Hartiage Banquet. The NWTF has a chapter in every state and also in Mexico and Canada.

There is so many great things that come from the NWTF like the restoration of the return of the wild turkey in many states. Turkey hunting has growed to a amazing height for the young and the old. There is no better feeling than to wake up on a cool spring morning and hear the sound of a mature gobbler in a distance form where you stand.

The NWTF has groups for all ages and not just men but women also. There is the Women in the Outdoors which is set up for the lady hunter of the family. You have the Extreme Jakes for ages 16 to 18 and then the regular Jakes for the ages of 15 and under. And also lets don’t forget the NWTF Membership along with sponsor memberships as well. If you have never seen or heard anything about the NWTF I want to invite you to visit their web site at www.nwtf.org. There is something there for all ages and if you or your child is a senior in high school they to can sign up to get scholarship through a local NWTF chapter. The NWTF is growing larger and it’s volunteer’s are working harder to make the turkey hunting world a better place.