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2 Digital subscriptions do not include data usage fees. MAIL FORM TO: Subscription Services, 9850 51st Ave. N. #130, Plymouth MN 55442-3271. subscribe or renew! Sorry - Cap offer only valid at our booth! GF. Outdoor News is also available in digital form! To subscribe to either the print edition or the new digital edition, visit us at or call 1-800-535-5191 24 hours Welcome to Ga m e Fa ir 2017! Game Fair 2017 features your favorite activities from past years plus new exhibits and dog events, and renovated grounds. Attend a seminar! Below you'll see seasoned experts who've been entertaining crowds for years, plus some exciting newcomers. Thanks for being here! Kevin Lovegreen Nora Ross Author of the one-of- A 34-time Amateur a-kind book series, Trapshooting Lucky Luke's Hunt- Association ing Adventures, All-American, Nora Kevin Lovegreen Ross in 1999 became uses his unique the youngest person Chuck and Loral I Delaney outdoor theme to ever inducted into inspire, teach, and the Amateur Trap- The owners and founders of Game Fair, Chuck and Loral I Delaney live on the grounds throughout the year entertain children.

3 Shooting Association overseeing their dog boarding and training facility at Armstrong Ranch Kennels. Chuck and Loral I have His seminar demonstrates how various Hall of Fame. One of her most impressive each been part of the outdoor sportshow industry for seven decades as performers and coordinators. They hunting calls sound, and he invites you to accomplishments occurred in 1990 when created America's original Game Fair in 1982, modeled after similar fairs in Britain. Loral I grew up on the participate in the World Famous Animal she became the first woman to break grounds of Game Fair as the daughter of Fred Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Ranch Kennels in 1926. Sound Challenge. Test your knowledge 100-straight doubles at the Grand Ameri- and see if you can name the animal and can Trap Shoot where she scored 120x120. For the past 36 years, Chuck has overseen all the operations of Game Fair. Both Chuck and Loral I enjoy host- whether it's a male or female.

4 In a shoot off to capture the championship. ing Game Fair too much to stop anytime soon and are thrilled to have you as guests again in 2017. She is an expert trapshooting instructor who is in high-demand across the country. Steve McComas Ross's twice daily seminars will focus on Owner of St. Paul sharpening trap-shooting skills. Dennis Cartrell Cooper Jeff Fredrick based Blue Water Sci- Anderson Owner of Big D's Dog One of the best ence, Steve McComas Best known as the Training, Cartrell turkey callers in the Todd Stelzer is better known to Owner and operator outdoor columnist Cooper is a highly country, Jeff Fredrick many as The Lake of Whisky River Gun- of the Minneapo- accomplished dog has turned his hobby Detective. Readers dogs in west-central lis Star Tribune, trainer who believes of making turkey of Outdoor News en- Wisconsin, Todd Dennis Anderson that every dog has calls into a successful joy reading his regu- Stelzer specializes has been involved the potential to be business.

5 Hailing lar tales of sleuthing in training flushing with retrieving dogs well behaved. His from La Crosse, Wis., as he uses his skills as an aquatic ecologist dogs for upland hunt- most of his life. For the past three decades, seminars focus on Fredrick has been and civil engineer to solve mysteries for ing, hunt tests and Anderson and his wife, Janice, has owned helping dog owners make that happen by the Wisconsin turkey-calling champion a lake associations, property owners, and AKC field trials. With and operated the breeding kennel British- focusing more on the canine thinking pro- dozen times. His seminar on turkey calling city governments. Hear some of his tales in 20 years of training experience, Stelzer in the St. Croix Valley. They cess versus the correction process. With and hunting will draw on his 30 years of his daily seminars and join his crusade to believes each dog's training is unique, and travel frequently to England, Scotland, and more than 40 years of training experience, experience pursuing and calling turkeys.

6 Battle aquatic invasive species. he uses positive reinforcement to create a Ireland each year and also host some of Cooper has a in animal behavior and Great Britain's top retriever experts. Learn is internationally recognized as a trainer, happy dog that loves to train and hunt. His about the differences between British and behaviorist, and instructor. behaviorist, daily seminars will focus on flushing dogs and instructor. Josh Miller from start to finish. American breeds as well as the varying Owner and lead training methods. The Gould Brothers trainer at River Stone Josh DeWitt Kennels in western Jon Thompson Aaron and Steve Randy Bartz Friends introduced Gould put on a Wisconsin, Josh Owner of Riverside Inventor of the con- Josh DeWitt to Miller is a fresh face Sporting Gear in jaw-dropping east-central Minneso- cept of goose flagging waterfowling during on the dog-training twice-daily shotgun ta, Jon Thompson is using the original his college years, and scene with a wealth trickshooting an expert at firearms T-Flag in the late that's where he first of experience.

7 With performance that training and certifi- 1980s, Randy Bartz witnessed a well- multiple NASHDA. fills the bleachers cation. He is an active is better known by trained Labrador Shed Dog World Championship titles to and has become a fan International Defen- his nickname The retrieving birds in an his name, Miller has accomplished a lot favorite. Their shooting feats will amaze sive Pistol Associa- Flagman. From his Illinois River slough. in a decade of training experience. Miller you plus you'll laugh hearing their stories tion action shooter with expert status in home base in Roch- Today he owns southeast Missouri-based combines a variety of techniques to meet of competing against one another with multiple handgun classifications and holds ester, Minn., Bartz has perfected the art of Brookstone Kennels, which focuses on a variety of training scenarios. His daily brotherly love. Minnesotans to the core, a rare Advanced Pistol Certification.

8 His flagging geese across North America. Bartz champion Labs of genetics. Over the seminars focus on introducing e-Collars to Aaron and Steve Gould have turned their daily seminars, co-hosted by Brian Cooper has been a stalwart of Waterfowler's Hill past 15 years, DeWitt has developed an edu- your dog in a way that is most effective and dreams of trickshooting into reality. of Eagle Mountain Trading, will focus on at Game Fair since the event's first year. He cation and natural training style that uses conducive to a happy, well-behaved dog. continues to design and perfect a superior positive reinforcement to build on the dogs' handgun fit and accuracy along with basic line of goose flags and will share what he's genetically innate abilities and talents. to advanced handgun shooting skills. learned and continues to develop in his His seminars will focus on the importance Ethan and daily seminars. getting obedience right in young dogs.

9 Jordan Keil Kat Pippitt Scott Threinen A Minnesota State The proud owners of Owner of Molt Gear, Standing Stone Ken- Inc., and a three-time Kurt Tom Dokken Champion Goose World Live Goose caller, Jordan Keil is nels in Kansas, Ethan Baumgartner Inventor of Dokken's also a waterfowling and Pat Pippitt, will Calling Champion, With more than 30 Deadfowl Trainer Scott Threinen has and owner of guide from western share their knowl- years of bowhunting been a professional Dokken's Oak Ridge Minnesota. He edge and experiences experience and a waterfowling guide Kennels, one of the pursues waterfowl about how to work lifelong career in the for the past two largest gun dog on a daily basis for at with your dog so it outdoors industry, decades in Rochester, Minn. Threinen's ap- training kennels in least eight months is both a solid hunter and a well behaved Kurt Baumgartner proach to goose hunting and master calling the United States, of the year, guiding others to magnificent family companion.

10 Ethan and Kat love is a wealth of knowl- techniques are the focus of his seminars. Tom Dokken has hunting experiences. His seminar focuses working with all breeds of dogs including edge for seasoned He is the creator of the Bad Grammar Call- been part of Game Fair since the beginning. on coaxing waterfowl reactions to your pointers, flushers, and retrievers. Both of and beginning archers alike. His daily ing instructional series and also the Goose Author of the book Retriever Training, calling via natural sequences that attract them believe in positively developing dogs bowhunting seminars will focus on deer Society Instructional hunting series. Dokken has made seminar appearances ducks and geese. so they can reach their full potential. vision and ways that hunters can avoid being detected during the hunt. Baumgart- across North and South America and is featured on numerous outdoor television Dick and Dawn ner leads Game Fair's Archery World Tom Poorker and directs the Game Fair $1,000 100-Yard programs.