MWTHA

The Pere Marquette Chapter will host the 29th Annual Wild Turkey Hunters Rendezvous and State Calling Championships on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Baldwin High School (map). The doors open at 8:00AM and the program begins at 9:00AM. Admission remains at $5 for adults, children 16 and under are free.

• Vendor exhibits
• Door prizes
• Gun, bucket, and silent raffles
• Calling and hunting clinics
• Senior and Junior calling contest with trophies for first five places

After the conclusion of the calling contest, the event moves north of Baldwin to the VFW hall (map) where we have a turkey shoot, followed by a great turkey supper and an evening program that ends at 7:00PM.

Come join us for this extremely popular event.

The Traverse Bay Chapter of the MWTHA is presenting a Turkey Hunters Workshop on Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 9:00AM – 4:00PM. The event will include demonstrations on various aspects of turkey hunting: calling, set-ups, decoys, shotgun patterning, DNR Law Division- review rules & regs, etc.

The featured speaker will be DNRE Wildlife Division Chief Russ Mason Ph.D..  His work experiences span across federal and state wildlife agencies in both the eastern and western United States.  He is a hunter, trapper, and fisherman with a special love of waterfowl and upland birds. His family hunts and fishes as well, and he started his kids on the trapline and in duck blinds before they could walk. His last job before coming to Michigan eighteen months ago was as the Game Chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. To this day, Russ still can't get over the wildlife and habitat diversity in Michigan - not to mention the abundance of trees and water.

The event is to be held at theNorthland Sportsmens Club in Gaylord Michigan.

For more information, contact Linda Gallagher.