We’ve been hitting the contest scene pretty hard as of late. Minnesota State contest was the middle of January and the little guy called in three divisions. He called in the Poults and had a pretty good run and ended up getting First Place. In the Jr’s he made a mistake and did the wrong call. He still managed to pull of a third place, but a hard lesson was learned. In the Hunter division he went on a tear and ended up placing First again.
Next up was the Grand National Calling Contest held in Nashville in conjunction with the NWTF National Convention. Four days of turkey calling went on that weekend and a ton of other activities including about 700 booths of Turkey Stuff. We had a great time and watched a lot of our Midwest calling buddies compete. Finally on Sunday morning it was time for the youth to take their turn on turkey callings biggest stage. He had been working on a few changes going into leaving for Nashville but in the end decided to go with proven routines. Cadence was a little off maybe because of nerves, but he still ended up placing in the top 5 in the Poults Division. He’s still got one more year before he moves up to the Juniors, and he’s already determined that he’s calling in it again next year! Is been a great year for him, but whats really fun for me is seeing him develop both his skills and his own sound on the stage.
This weekend we’ll be at the Mid Iowa Classic at the Iowa Deer Classic. Then it’s an opening weekend hunt in the swamps of Florida followed up with the Twin Cities Head to Head at the Northwest Sports Show here in Minneapolis. That will be the last contest for us until after some real turkeys are taking dirt naps after judging us in the field.
CW
impressive 
I’ll take him for Mn season “C”…!) Very cool… 
