Allen Ridgdill

Allen "Cowmanhunter" Ridgdill is a 42 year Old Male, life long resident of  Florida. Allen is married with three kids. Allen was raised hunting and fishing in Florida from a very young age. Allen has hunted Deer, Hogs, Turkeys,Doves, Ducks, and predators. Allen has hunted in Texas,Montana, Idaho, Nebraska,Maine,Florida,Kentucky,Northern Quebec and Mexico. Allen does most if not all of his hunting in Alabama now. He enjoys the time away with family and friends. Allen's goals are to raise a happy healthy family too adulthood and retire to his land in Alabama. He hopes to  acquire more acreage as the years go by. Allen is happy alone and he also likes people. 

Professional info: Certified General Contractor with the State of Florida
Pollutant Storage Contractor with State of Florida.
Allen has worked in the family business forever and a day.
Family Business consists of Construction, heavy Equipment, mining, road building etc. There are Convenience Stores, Mobile Home Park, and Land development for housing. Allen and his father raise Brangus cattle as Business/Hobby

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies/ Psychology/Philosophy.  Master of Divinity without Dissertation

Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing, Reading, Cattle breeding, Deer Management, Food Plots, Talk Hunting, Working his property in Alabama.

God is the reason for all that Allen is and all that he will ever be. God is the reason all things are possible in Allen's life. Allen lives out his days trying to honor and do God's calling.

Anthony Meshell

Staff Writer Anthony (ameshell) Meshell was born in Houston, Texas. Anthony married his High School Sweet Heart and Best Friend, Melody in June of 1989.  Anthony has two beautiful daughters, Macy and Katelyn.

As a young child, Anthony was raised on the water. Anthony’s family was always around water and the outdoors. He caught his first bass at the age of 5 years old and has been chasing them ever since. He also chases after Speckled Trout and Redfish now.

After graduating Pearland High School in 1987 (man he is getting old), he enlisted into the U.S. Navy.  He served during the Gulf War and was stationed in Mayport, FL.  Anthony is now a Police Officer for the City of Manvel, TX. Manvel is only a few miles from where he grew up.

The past few years have been a really great learning experience for Anthony and his family. Anthony has always had a passion for hunting, but had never really been able to pursue the passion until now. He hunts Deer, Dove, Squirrel and Hog. His older daughter, Macy, has also taken an interest in hunting and the outdoors. She is in FFA and they are raising Rabbits for show.  Anthony now has a deer lease to take the family hunting on and they enjoy every minute that they can there.

These days if Anthony is not fishing or hunting, he is thinking about fishing or hunting.

Benefit 4 Kids

Benefit4Kids was founded in 1998 with its primary mission to grant the outdoor wishes of children with life threatening and life limiting illnesses. We also work to involve today's children in the outdoors and the many activities it offers them. Many of today's children are denied the opportunity to experience the outdoors because of costs, lack of available mentors and a limited amount of facilities offering an all around outdoor experience. Benefit4Kids works to help these children experience the outdoors through several children's programs. Benefit4Kids also works closely with several children's camps designed to work with injured and ill children. Instructors at these camps are experienced in medical procedures necessary to work with these children. They are also experienced in archery, camping, outdoor cooking, hiking, nature and many other facets of outdoor activities. In working with these and several other children's camps Benefit4Kids will continue to assist many less fortunate children enjoy our great outdoors and help them to learn the morals and family values that are so often lacking today.

Benefit4Kids is a 100% Volunteer Organization. We all have jobs and do this on our spare time out of the kindness of our hearts. This allows 100% of your donations to go straight to supporting the kids.

Bo Lester

In 1960 Bo’s Dad was invited to go deer hunting with a co-worker and that ignited a lifelong passion in Bo for the outdoors, hunting and shooting that continues today. Bo started reloading his own ammo in 1971 and has been a NRA life member since 1983, Endowment since 1994 and became a Parton member in 2000. He is also a Life Member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation since 2004 and Lifetime Buckmaster Member and active NWTF, SCI and DU memberships.

Bo started going on Elk hunts using Archery, Black Powder and Rifle Hunts in Colorado in 1987 through 2006, Numerous Mule Deer hunts,  Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep hunt, Antelope and Groundhog hunt and finally his first but not last Safari in 2009. On his bucket list are Canada, Alaska and New Zealand hunts.  In the past, Bo has hunted Deer and Turkey in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Wyoming and Colorado. 

As an Atlanta native he has worked in the Power Plant Engineering field worked for the Georgia Power Company and worked with an Engineering Firm in Norcross, GA for 26 years before moving to East Tennessee working for a local Engineering firm.
Having a love of shooting has driven him to love anything that deals with ballistics, sciences and physics.  He was a member of River Bend Gun Club in Norcross, Georgia for many years and was also a member at Knob Creek Rifle Range in Kentucky for 4 years and now in Tennessee, a long time member of Oak Ridge Sportsman Association and a member of Norris Watershed Range. 

Bo looks forward to sharing all the knowledge he has acquired over 40 years of reloading, personally customizing rifles, hunting ballistics and shooting with the TalkHunting readers. 

Brad Gordon

Brad “Hawghunter65” Gordon began at the tender age of eight years old with a .22, rabbit and squirrel hunting with his father on their family farm.  He was lucky enough to add pheasants and finally deer to his list of quarries during his teenage years of life.  In his fifties, he also began turkey hunting after Michigan began a exchange program of Canadian geese for wild eastern turkeys from Alabama.   Brad’s passion in hunting is equally divided between trophy mature bucks and big boss gobblers that roam his current hunting grounds.  He is married with five grown children and 5 grandchildren.  His hobbies besides hunting are fishing for bluegills, growing food plots, and the game of golf.

Brent Sawyer

TalkHunting Pro Staffer, Brent "Cobrican" Sawyer, was born into a sporting family.  His first couple years of life were spent on the banks of Lake Arthur and around his grandfather's farm in Jennings, La.  Even when his family moved to the city, they visited the farm often.  Brent's parents and Pawpaw spent as many hours as they could find taking him outside to learn how to care for and survive on the land around him.  They camped and hiked.  They gardened.  Brent joined the Boy Scouts as a Bobcat and continued to be involved through his High School days.  There, he learned many new skills to help him belong out of doors.  Brent and his cousins would often sleep out under the stars with only a blanket.  

At the age of 8 he was given his first BB gun.  At 10 he was allowed to hunt with a shotgun.  The family had a lease where they hunted, predominantly, Speckle-belly geese with the occasional snow or duck.  They also hunted doves and rabbits.  Brent learned how to call specks well enough to hunt on his own in only a short time.  About the time Brent went to college, his grandfather dropped the hunting lease.  Fortunately, North Louisiana offers some great opportunities for hunting on public lands.  He spent many hours duck hunting as well as hunting small game.  In 2000 Brent was invited to his first deer hunt.  Since then he has been fully involved in the deer hunting experience.  He also loves to fish.  Lately he has made more opportunities to fish salt water than freshwater but he enjoys both.

Brent Graduated with a degree in Forest Technology and has used his degree as a basis for hunting and recreation properties management.  He joined Talkhunting.com in 2008 and has attended gatherings in Louisiana and Alabama.  He also works for Breathe Safe Environmental Services as a third party monitor for lead and asbestos abatement.  He loves his job but hopes to be able to one day move exclusively to property management and consulting.

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Dave Culver

David “KraQr” Culver grew up on a small farm in Southeast Missouri which helped ingrain a passion for the outdoors and develop a foundation in his life.  He not only grew up with working experiences on a farm but was introduced to all things sporting goods as a small child.  His father owned and ran a small sporting goods store which focused primarily on firearms and repair.   At a very early age Dave gained a mutual interest in firearms and how to safely use them.   Dave enjoys talking about firearms and sharing stories of some of his personal collection.

Hunting rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, and other animals around the farm was always a teaching moment.  Hunting was a way of life and most of the time was for food rather than sport.    Dave became an avid fisherman and had plans of pursuing a professional career in tournament fishing as a teenager.   Distractions in life and other goals derailed his fishing plans but not the pursuit of a whitetail deer.   Dave started hunting whitetail deer as a teenager and continues to pursue that goal across many states and locations.   For him, It’s more about the experiences you share than the conquest of the hunt.

When not out scouring the woods, Dave works as a computer security architectural engineer and a real estate broker in the Panhandle area of Florida.   Dave is an Air Force veteran of Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and many other deployments.  Dave spends his free time with his significant other, Jenell.   They recently bought a new home and as expected each had their own requirements while searching. She wanted a big kitchen and he had to have a yard big enough to practice shooting his bow.   Now they are both satisfied and she will hopefully join him in the tree stand this year.

David Rice

David "dlr" Rice started hunting at the age of 17.  He has always been interested in the sport but never had the chance to go because no one in his family hunted. His father took him fishing but he never liked the aspect of hunting.

While in high school David had friends that hunted with their father’s. He had been invited a few times to go, but his father thought it was too dangerous. His best friend Bobby's Dad worked with David's dad and he asked if it would be ok for him to go hunting with them. His father gave the ok and from that point on he was hooked.

So David has been hunting since the age of 17 and has never stopped since. His passion grew from small game to big game. He started to bow hunt at the age of 23 and loved it more then gun hunting. He loves the aspect of being proficient with the bow and how you have to come face to face with your game. He is a self taught bow tech and loves to work on bows and help anyone that he can.

David has been coaching youngsters in Archery, rifle, shotgun, muzzle loading, orienteering, and wild life id. He has coached in the YHEC program for 8 years, and is still active in the YHEC program by volunteering for the state and international level.  He has been teaching Hunter Ed for the state of Maryland for over 19 years and loves every minute of it. He is now in the process of becoming a Hunter Ed teacher for the state of Pennsylvania as well.

Dennis Parker

Dennis was introduced to Hunting, Fishing & Trapping at around the age of 6 by his father, not as a hobby but by need of survival because his Dad was often laid off as Steel worker. Dennis would help bait the traps and run them with his Dad. He learned to shoot with a 22 single shot rifle then moved up to a 16 gage Double Barrel Shotgun.

Dennis has been married for the last 35 Years and has one Daughter, age 30, and two wonderful grand children that he is bringing up to enjoy Hunting, Fishing and the outdoors. He says he often times has Deer in his yard and his 2 year old grandson will watch for the Deer outside the window with his toy gun aiming and shouting Boom at the Deer.

Dennis attended Jefferson State, University of Alabama, University Alabama Birmingham and Walker State (Now Bevill State) where he have a degree in Coal mine design/Technology.

He has worked in the IT Industries for the past 38 years 28 of those years are with his current employer ALTEC Industries, Inc (Maker of Utility Equipment like Bucket Trucks etc.) where he is a Network Analyst II/Senior IT Buyer.

When not working you will catch him at his Hunting Club, Shoal Creek Hunting Club, just outside of Montevallo Alabama in Shelby County, moving and Placing Hunting Blinds, Ladder stands and putting in Food Plots. You will also catch him hunting in Clio Alabama (South Alabama) where he will be throwing lead at hog’s or catching catfish.

Dennis is also a volunteer for Honor Flight Birmingham where they fly WWII Veterans to Washington DC to visit the WW II Memorial

Denny Chambers

TalkHunting Pro Staff Director, Denny "Bugfixer" Chambers, of Summerdale, Alabama, was introduced to hunting at age six by his father. He began hunting small game and gradually moved up to whitetail deer and turkeys.

Denny has many years of experience hunting whitetail in the thick woods of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. He just recently started chasing the elusive Eastern Turkey that Alabama is known for, and he harvested his first gobbler during the 2009 spring season. Denny is currently working on becoming an accomplished turkey caller.

Denny is currently the camp leader for Scotland Ridge Hunting Club - East Camp, located in Tunnel Springs, Alabama. Denny along with other club members manage a 1340 acre hunting lease, maintaining 17 food plots for deer and 9 food plots for turkeys.

Outside of hunting, Denny is an Army veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Denny also has a Computer Engineering degree from Auburn University, and currently works as a software engineer. Denny has been married to his wife Samantha for over 10 years, and is a father of 4 children, three girls and boy, who all share in his love of hunting, fishing and the outdoors.

Doug DeJong

Doug "ddejong" DeJong lives in the Kansas City area with his wife, Mary, of 30 years.  Doug developed a love for hunting and fishing while growing up in the middle of Minnesota’s lake country.  On his first hunting outing he bagged a wood duck with a 16 gauge, and has been hooked on hunting ever since.  Doug has four children, including three boys all of whom enjoy hunting and fishing together.

Doug lost touch with the outdoors after moving to Dallas upon college graduation.  After relocating to Kansas in 1998, he was reintroduced to hunting and has taken it back up with passion.  Ten years ago he bought an 80 acre farm in SE Kansas which he actively manages for turkey, deer, and quail.  Five years ago he purchased another 100 acres on the Missouri side to allow him another set of seasons to hunt deer and turkey, as well as ducks and bass in the ponds and creek.  Over the years Doug has seen the results of active whitetail management with bigger and bigger bucks, but gets as much satisfaction of working the properties as he does with the harvest.  He has a German Shorthair Pointer named Pepper to share in the upland game opportunities central and western Kansas offers.  He has also made forays to Wyoming for antelope on two occasions.  He and the boys make regular summer fishing forays back to Minnesota and Canada.

Doug has a passion for introducing new hunters to the sport, and routinely brings ‘newbies’ on their first hunts at his farms.

Professionally Doug is a pharmacist, and serves as the Senior Director of Pharmacy for an eleven hospital system.  He relishes the fact that he loses cell phone coverage the moment he turns onto the gravel road leading to his farms, allowing him to unwind and enjoy the great outdoors.  Doug is an active member of Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, and the NWTF. 

Duane Taylor

TalkHunting Pro Staffer Duane "Duane72" Taylor was born in western NY. As the son of a pastor, he spent several childhood years in Wisconsin, then West Virginia where he graduated high school before landing in Rhode Island. Moving out on his own, Duane spent a few years in Texas before enlisting in the US Air Force where he served for four years, stationed in Germany and South Carolina, and took part in Operation Desert Shield. After, he returned to RI where he served an additional year in the Air National Guard and married his fiancé Desiree. He now works full-time as the Facility Manager of his church, as well as volunteer serves on the board of Deacons. Duane cherishes his life with Desiree and is the proud father of two boys.

Growing up in a family that, even though they were not opposed to it, had minimal interest in hunting, Duane had few, if no, opportunities to experience the world of hunting for himself. He has always had an enjoyment of fishing and holds fond memories of fishing the ponds and lakes of Wisconsin with his dad and siblings. Always having a deep interest in hunting though, he took it upon himself to get started the year after settling home in Rhode Island. Armed with nothing more than an ancient recurve given to him by an old man in his church when he was in his teens, and decked out in his Air Force BDUs, he plunged into what would soon become a passion, hobby, and lifestyle.

It was several years before Duane would arrow his first deer with a used compound bow he had "upgraded" to. But those first years brought with them many valuable lessons, mentors, and friends and were the foundations of the successful years that followed. Hunting also the shotgun and muzzleloader seasons, spring & fall turkey, as well as some small game and coyote, Duane spends a great deal of time in the woods or preparing to be there. His other passions are most importantly God, his family, and his off-season fix of motorcycles.

Harold Hollingsworth

Family consists of my beautiful wife of 40 years and we have two married children, boy and girl.  Four grandsons, one granddaughter.  
My hobbies are hunting and fishing.   Did not start hunting till I was 18, Mother would not let me have a gun until I pointed out to her I had to register for the Draft.  Her Father hunted but my Father and his Father did not.  We did a lot of fishing with worms from creek banks growing up as that's what my Father enjoyed which I still do.  After I got my first gun with Mother saying yes, it was her Father's single shot Stevens 12 GA.  I spend one whole Saturday in my grandparent's woods trying to get small game.  Finally as the sun was going down decided I was going to at least shoot at a tree.  Had wanted the first shot to get game.  The gun would not work, the firing pin was rusted.  I was still hooked on hunting!!!  Got lots of small game and birds with that old shotgun.  Got my first deer at the age of 28 and been hooked every since on deer hunting.
Served in the Air Force from 1969 to 1995 during Vietnam and a few other “conflicts”.  NCOIC CE Supply Point, Sgt., Myrtle Beach AFB SC 1970-1972.  NCOIC CE Supply Point, Sgt. Osan AB Korea 1972-1973.   NCOIC Avionics Supply Point, Grand Forks AFB ND 1973-1974.   NCOIC Reparable Asset Control Center, SSgt, Langley AFB VA 1974-1977.  Switched over to Air Force Reserves 916 Medical Reserve Sq and served at Seymour Johnson with numerous deployments till 1995 retiring as a Master Sergeant Medical Logistics Superintendent/Acting First Sergeant.

Electrical substation apprentice Goldsboro NC 1968-1969 after graduating from High School before the draft got hot in behind me and I enlisted. Currently the Budget Analyst for the 4th Medical Group at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC since 1983.

Jason Jonas

Jason "mzutiger" Jonas started hunting with his Dad at 5 years old.  Equipped with his "gun" (stick) he would get after quail and pheasant.  Over the years Jason has pursued other critters too.  Currently he's trying to finish the Career Grand Slam with his father.  With only a Merriam to go, he is looking forward to sharing this accomplishment with his Dad.  He has yet to master the art of Turkey hunting, and is doubtful he ever will. That's what keeps him coming back for more!  As life goes full circle, he is now taking his own boys hunting.

Jason grew up in the Kansas city area.  Having played football in college, and graduating from the University of Missouri, he is now a Flight Paramedic, and was previously a Firefighter/Paramedic.  He is pursuing a Nursing Degree.  Jason is married and the father of 3 boys.  Which keep him plenty busy!  

Jason is trying to expand his hunting pursuits and become a Whitetail hunter.  He took his first Buck this past winter in Missouri.  While it was an 11 point, it wasn't exactly the prettiest deer.  Definitely a cull buck!  But that Buck fever is now getting going.  And as time will allow, he'd like to step back into Bow Hunting.  Something a shoulder injury in college sidetracked...  When turkey and deer aren't in season, he likes to Coach his boys sports teams and do some travelling with his wife.

Jeff Love

Jeff “ke7cjw” Love, was introduced to hunting and fishing at a young age by his father. Growing up in the Cascade mountains of Western Washington Jeff spent most of his time chasing squirrels, rabbits, and grouse. When Jeff was old enough to hunt big game he started a life long quest for Blacktail deer and Roosevelt elk.

Jeff worked for many years in the same sawmill his father worked in and that many of his child hood friends also worked in. After a life altering accident in 1997 that cost him most of the use of his right arm he went back to school to learn computers. Now living in Southern Idaho Jeff is learning to hunt Antelope, Mule deer, Turkey, and Yellowstone elk.

When Jeff is not out in the woods he is working on perfecting his photography or re arranging his antennas for his amateur radio to make contact with other avid radio operators across the country.

Jim Simonton

Jim “BamaHunter” Simonton was a late bloomer when it came to deer hunting. He grew up bass and bream fishing in local ponds and actually learned how to shoot by helping to control turtle populations with a 22 rifle. He began deer hunting as a teenager but it wasn’t until his early 20’s that he realized there was more to chasing whitetails than just signing out for a spot and sitting there. To make a long story short, that is when his true obsession started.

When not in the woods or at work, Jim can be found at home with his family (or maybe on a golf course). He has been married to his beautiful wife Tonya since 1991 and has been blessed with two wonderful sons, Aaron (16) and Clay (10). They all four hunt together and Jim is a firm believer that a family that hunts together stays together.

Joey Bogus

TalkHunting Staff Writer Joey "Bogo" Bogus started hunting as soon as he was able to put on his on boots. He started tagging along with his dad hunting squirrels and rabbits at the age of 6 with a .410 single shot shot gun, that he still has now 24 years later. He was introduced to hunting whitetail deer as a teenager and he has been hunting and studying them ever since. He gradually worked his way up to what is now his passion......Bow hunting whitetails. In the past five years he has picked up his second passion turkey hunting. But when the seasons don't allow him bow hunt whitetails or chase long beards he is back to his roots, of hunting squirrels with his Jack Russel's that he and his dad still raise and train themselves.

Joey has been hunting gritters in the hills and swamps of North Alabama and Southern Tennessee for 25 years. Although he has just started hunting turkey in Alabama and Tennessee in the past 5 years he has already called in a number of gobblers for fellow hunters and him self. He plans to head to South Alabama and to Missouri this spring to try his luck in new territory.

When Joey can not be in the woods he enjoys traveling with his wife Laura were ever the road takes them. He also enjoys camping, fishing, spending time with friends and training his squirrel dogs with his dad. "pretty much anything outside and he is there". Joey and his wife are also HUGE Alabama Crimson Tide Football fans. They enjoy going to the games and cheering on the Tide. Joey is a active member of the NRA and the NWTF. He also volunteers to teach the hunter safety course and takes children hunting through out the hunting season. But when it comes to reality Joey is the General Mananger for Crystal Mountain Water in the Birmingham Region.

John Thibodeaux

TalkHunting Staff Writer John “Cookin“ Thibodeaux, started hunting rabbit and squirrel at age sixteen.  Then while living in Texas for 5 years, whitetail deer became a great love to hunt.  John’s 1st wild hog hunt was in 2000, when he moved to Pine Grove, Louisiana.  John also loves to hunt turkey and dove right in his own backyard.  John has always loved going spear fishing in the Louisiana lakes and he became a certified diver about 5 years ago.  

John has been a member of Hard Luck Hunting Club for 10 years and now holds the position of secretary. The club implemented QDMA about 3years ago and it has been a great success.
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John is a sign technician and has been married to his wife, Stephanie, for 15 years.  He has been blessed with 3 wonderful children and 2 grandchildren.  He is very proud of each of them.

Ken Ledbetter

TalkHunting Staff Writer Bubba "BubbaBrown" Ledbetter grew up in Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas, hunting and fishing was a great tradition in his family. He grew up in the country, learning the ways of nature and how to enjoy being in nature, not just hunting and fishing. Bubba hunts with a bow and a gun for whitetail deer and has taken up turkey hunting in the last three years. This year is Bubba’s 50th year of hunting, he started hunting at the age of 9 years old and took his first deer at the age of 11 years old. Deer hunting is Bubba’s greatest love, but loves the process of preparing for the hunt through the management of the property he hunts. He hunts in the Liberty, MS area on a 1,000 acre lease with 7 friends.

Bubba is a residential building contractor and a graduate architect. He has been married to Mary Ann for 35 years with two grown sons and two grandchildren. He was in the USMC from 1970-1973. He was stationed in Lakehurst, N.J., MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., and MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. He was a MOS 6064, Aircrew Survival Equipmentman. He is an early member of Talk Hunting, was a global moderator for Talk Hunting, and is currently Pro Staff. He is the originator of Talk Hunting’s “Food From The Forest” program for collecting game for the hungry and is a member of the NRA, QDMA, Buck Masters, The Capital Region Builders Association, The Capital Region Remodelor’s Council, and it on the board of directors for the Remodelor's Council and “Hunters For The Hungry” in the Baton Rouge, LA area.

Kimberly Fox

Dr. Kimberly "canam" Brinson is a native of Camden County, Georgia. She teaches 6th grade Language Arts at a middle school in St. Marys. She recently completed her doctorate degree in Instructional Leadership and Curriculum through NOVA Southeastern in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Kimberly is an avid 3-D archer and enjoys attending 3-D competitions with her compound bow. Kimberly is an NFAA certified archery coach and enjoys teaching archery to potential students of all ages. She is also on the Pro Staff for Shoot Like A Girl, which is a company that helps teach women about the aspects of archery. Kimberly has enjoyed the great sport of archery since 2001. Her greatest archery moment includes finishing 3rd place in Shooter of the Year with the Archery Shooters Association and a few significant placings at national archery tournaments and local events as well as Florida State 3-D Champion in 2008.

As far as hunting, Kimberly is a licensed Master of Hounds with United Kennel Club and is certified to judge raccoon field trials and bench shows. For many years, coon hunting was a well enjoyed sport by her, and she helped work several dogs to championship status in licensed coon hunts and coon hunting for pleasure. Kimberly also enjoyed training and running Foxhounds to chase fox and coyotes. This was a short-lived hobby because it was very time consuming and quite expensive. Throughout her life, Kimberly has deer hunted. The initial experience was running deer with hounds; however, for the past few years, she has participated in still hunting with a rifle to a slight degree. Building food plots and scouting are Kimberly's favorite parts of deer hunting. She has not harvested an animal while still hunting, but she intends to hunt from a treestand this upcoming season instead of in a blind. Hopefully, her luck will change. In theory, she is a rookie still hunter.

In her spare time, Kimberly enjoys reading, playing seek and find computer games and hanging out with her husband, Evan. She also enjoys spending time at her church, Harbor Worship Center in Kingsland, GA and writing weekly devotions for Talk Hunting.

Credentials:
Shoot Like A Girl Pro Staff
BowTech Pro Staff
Carbon Express Pro Staff
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Huddle Coach
Talk Hunting Magazine Staff Writer and Editor
TH Weekly Devotions Writer

Kolpin Powersports

Whether you are riding for sport, working on your “honey-do” list, or venturing deep into the woods after trophy game– Kolpin is by your side, outfitting you (and your ATV or UTV) for all your outdoor adventures. Kolpin continues to ‘lead the pack’ - manufacturing over 200 all-terrain products to not only help get ‘you there’, but to also help get ’it done.’

Luanne Bragg

TalkHunting Pro Staffer, Luanne "Beaglepup" Bragg, started hunting (going hunting) with her Grandfather in the fall of 1965.  He loved to squirrel hunt and would carry her into the woods and sit her on a rock and let her hold his prizes.  He took Luanne on her first Pheasant and Rabbit hunts when she was 7.  Shortly after that he had a massive stroke and was never able to return to the woods again.  When Luanne was 9 her Father, who was about to retire from the Marine Corps after 20 years active duty, and Uncle decided that since she could shoot she could remove the ground hogs and crows from the farm fields.  Luanne spent the next few years watching all the wildlife and removing varmints from the farm.  She took herself deer hunting for the first time when she was 15 and took her first deer at 17.  There was a long time between Luanne's first deer and her next deer due to college and work and general life.  She did a lot of small game hunting with her ex-husband starting in 1985 and killed her next deer in 1988.  She has not missed a deer or turkey season since.  When not hunting she is fishing or working in her garden (when not WORKING...).

Luanne has raised, trained and field trialed Beagles in the UKC and ARHA formats for 20 years and has produced several Field and Show Champions and Grand Field and Show Champions.  There is usually at least one litter of puppies born on her place every year.

She holds a Real Estate License in Virginia and owns a Dog Boarding Kennel.  Luanne belongs to the National Association of Realtors, Central Virginia Beaglers Association, NRA, NWTF and Buckmasters.  She was born in East Liverpool, Ohio,  and started showing Appaloosa horses in 1969 and was the Pennsylvania Appaloosa Queen in 1980 and runner up to the National Queen Title the same year. When she gets the chance she still enjoys a long trail ride.  She graduated from Kent State University in Kent Ohio in 1982 with a degree in Applied Science. Luanne relocated from Ohio to Virginia in 1984.

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Nick Stallings

Nick "TNcowboy" Stallings was introduced to hunting at an early age, he started tagging along with his dad at age five with his trusty Red Rider BB gun hunting rabbits.

Nick started hunting whitetail deer in his teens and was hooked on his first outing. He has been studying and hunting the whitetail deer ever since. He also turkey hunts and fishes the local lakes.

Nick enjoys deer hunting with a crossbow and hunts exclusively with a handgun for deer during the firearms season.

Other than hunting he and his wife Luann (Talking Hunting screen name tncowgirl) enjoy camping and trail riding their mules. Nick is a twenty nine year veteran fire fighter with the Carthage Fire Department and the Smith County Rescue Squad.

Randy Haehnlein

TalkHunting Staff Writer Randy "Hunly" Haehnlein started hunting and fishing with his grandfather and other family members at around 7 or 8 years old. He started out with small game, as most do, hunting squirrels and rabbits. Then, as his granddaddy figured out he was ready, he started to let Randy venture out around the farm on his own. Most of Randy's knowledge has been self taught and he has a great love of the outdoors. Its not the thrill of the kill for Randy,even though he does enjoy taking a great buck, gobbler or catching a great fish. He says its just about being out there. Randy has been in the outdoors for over 30 years now and yet he still learns something new everyday. His motto is "Enjoy what's around you and pass it on to someone else like it was passed on to you."

Robert Householder

Robert was introduced to hunting by his uncle, Jeff Hendricks, at a very young age. He grew up in the outdoors, hunting and fishing at every opportunity. He started, as most boys do, with hunting squirrels and rabbits but was soon deer hunting with his uncle and thus started a true love for deer hunting. Jeff and Robert were two of a kind and stayed in the woods or on the water as much as possible until his uncles death in 2007.

Robert was introduced to turkey hunting by a close friend, Jerry Golden, and soon developed a passion for hunting this elusive bird. It remains one of his favorite game to hunt.

Robert has branched out of just hunting in Alabama to include states like Iowa, Mississippi and Georgia. He hopes to continue to hunt game in other states in the future. Robert is a veteran of the first Gulf war and served in the USAF for a total of 7 years, including assignments in Germany, Nebraska, Texas and Illinois.

Robert is the owner of an IT Managed Services company (www.gtinow.com) in Greenville, Alabama and is the founder of TalkHunting. He has been married to his wonderful wife, Annette, since 1985 and has 3 grown children, 2 sons and a daughter. He also has one grand daughter, (Katie) and one Grandson (Jake). Robert is also a hobbyist beekeeper.

God, Family and the outdoors are his life.....

Scott Cobbs

Scott "Copperhead" Cobbs was raised on a farm in rural Morgan County, Alabama. Born in 1966, he began hunting as soon as he could keep the gun off the ground, hunting sqirrels, rabbit, dove and quail with his father and grandfather.  Fishing for catfish and bream also consumed many hours of his youth.  In his early teens, Scott was introduced to bass fishing and whitetail deer hunting.  These became his passions and still are to this day.  He has fished and hunted over most of north Alabama and just two years ago had his first out-of-state hunt in Kentucky.

Although he lived and finished school in the small town of Arab, Alabama, the rural area where he was raised beckoned him back.  When he was married in 1989, he and his wife ,Marla, moved back to the country.  They bought his grandfather's house and there they still live today with their two children, Langston and Leanna.  They maintain a small farm and have recently invested in a few more acres to enable Scott to get his outdoor fix.

When he's not plotting his next hunting plans or planning his next food plot, Scott is managing an asphalt plant for Whitaker Contracting Corporation based in Guntersville, Alabama, where he has been an employee for the past 20 years.

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Tom Knight

Tom “flbuckhunter” Knight was introduced into hunting and fishing at an early age by his father and grandfather. Born in central Ohio, hunting and fishing was a family way of life. He was fishing regularly at the age of 3 and started tagging along coon hunting with his father at the age of 5. From day one he was hooked and has never looked back. He soon was tromping through the woods and fields in pursuit of rabbits, squirrels, and pheasants. At age 8 the love of the outdoors soon took on a new love and that was the Whitetail Deer. At the age of 12 his family relocated to Sarasota, Fl where he discovered many new game species including the Osceola Turkey and wild hogs, but to this day the Whitetail is his true passion. Tom has spent 29 years pursuing the whitetail and enjoys every moment he spends in the outdoors.

Tom currently hunts locally around the State of Florida, has a personal lease in Troy, Alabama, and also is the camp master of a 10 member 1600 acre hunting club in Allendale, South Carolina.

Tom is a graduate of Troy University located in Troy, Alabama where he earned a B.S. degree in Finance. He has worked in the mortgage industry since graduating in1992 and has owned his own Mortgage Brokerage Business specializing in residential mortgages since 1999. Tom is a Lifetime Sportsmen License Holder in the state of Florida and is co-chairman of the Southbay chapter of Friends of the NRA.

When Tom is not in the woods or on the water he is spending time with his two children who are quickly gaining the same passion for the outdoors as their father. They have both loved fishing and have been tagging along to the deer stand or turkey woods with dad for several years and both will be getting their first opportunity to hunt this coming season.

W.S. (Stan) Allen

Stan was born very near main street USA, in Marion, IN.  Business kept his family moving, finally, settling in Rensselaer IN.  Soon after high school, he choose the military before college.  After being honorably discharged, he decided he needed bit more education so he wound up at The University of Saint Francis.  Stan received a BA in Secondary Education and went on the take his Masters at Indiana University.

Stan's world changed dramatically when he was drug, kicking and screaming, into the twenty-first century by the purchase of his first computer.  From the moment he sat down at the computer, writing became an obsession.  He felt he had found that one thing that would complete his professional life.  Not long after that ominous meeting, Stan and the computer, he began to write full time.

If you ask him about his goals the reply is simple: 

“I hope everyone that reads my work smiles and says what a delightful read.” 

He has always been an avid hunter and writing provides a way of sharing another one of his passions. “I’m a writer that hunts not a hunter that writes. I don’t have a favorite species to hunt, I just love to hunt.  Deer, ducks, hogs, dove, coyotes, and turkey are all my favorites."

Stan now lives in Central, TX where his days are divided between his computer and a hunting blind or a duck boat or a turkey blind or etc, etc.     

Zach Long

Zach “ZLong19” Long was born and raised on a farm in Morgan County, Alabama. After graduating from Hartselle High School he decided to pursue a career in Wildlife Biology. Demands for a job outweighed a college career so Zach decided to apply for a factory job and leave college behind for the time being. He was offered a job at a local carbon fiber factory. After taking the job, he asked his high school sweetheart for her hand in marriage. They got married in June of 2008. Since becoming a married man he has gotten a new job in the same factory with Research and Development and has been asked to once more, attend college for the degree of his choice. He has chosen to get a Chemical Engineering Degree.

 He started fishing with his father at the rip ole age of 3.  Small game hunting began a few years later and gradually grew into deer hunting with the help of his father and uncle. In his teens, he began to duck hunt, but that whitetail fire still stayed strong. Soon he would put up the waders and pick the rifle back up for good.

Zach spends the majority of his time during the winter strategizing for his next hunt, checking game cameras, moving stands, and just enjoying the outdoors.  He spends his spring chasing long-beards, and his summer is spent in a bass boat trying to win winter hunting funds.  He has a strong heart for getting the children involved in the outdoors that are not familiar with the outdoor lifestyle He has recently started a non-profit organization called “The Experience” dedicated to getting those children into the outdoors.