Birch Run Huntin' Time Expo this Weekend

[twodogsphil]

Whitetail hunting will be among the topics covered in the free seminars which will be held throughout the three day Huntin' Time Expo show at the Birch Run Expo Center. Each of the seminar speakers are experts in their field and will present interesting and informative material. The following is the tentative schedule for all of the seminars.

Friday, February 6, 2004

5:30 pm......Ed Spinazzola................"Managing Food Plots"

6:45 pm......Denny Geurink..............."Tactics for Early & Late Season Turkeys"

Saturday, February 7, 2004

10:30 am.....Rod Benson..................."Advanced Turkey Calling"

11:45 am.....Greg & Fred Abbas........."Hunting 21st Century Whitetails"

1:00 pm.....Richard P. Smith.............."Hunting Michigan Black Bears"

2:15 pm.....Ed Spinazzola.................."Food Plot Management"

3:30 pm.....Dan & Guy Fitzgerald........."ABC's of Successful Deer Hunting"

4:45 pm.....Britt Huey........................"Thinking Like a Turkey"

Sunday, February 8, 2004

12:00 pm....Joel Harris......................"Tips & Tricks of Elk Hunting"

1:15 pm....Greg & Fred Abbas............"Turkey Hunting from A to Z"

Please check when you get to the Expo Center for last minute changes.

[bunji_hunter]

I'll see ya Saturday from around 1:00 to 4:30

[MuskyDan]

This is not an advertisement!!!! Any of you Michigan-Sportsman folk going to the expo this weekend stop in and say hey at the Hick's Tackle and Archery booth. Look forward to meeting some of you good folks.

[bunji_hunter]

MUSKY, sorry never saw your booth. But I am an avid Hick's man. Bought my Martin Prowler through you guys. Top notch service there also.

Now on to the good stuff.

First I'd like to thank TWODOGS for posting this thread. Without it I'd never have known it was going on.

The bear hunting seminar was good,

The hunting Fitzgeralds were real good at advertising different products while being more than entertaining. Also good spotlight on getting your kids active in the outdoors.

My highlight was definately Ed Spinazzola and food plots.
As I entered I saw the QDM logo and was thinking oh great I'm going to get plant Biologic and fertilize, then a 45 minute lecture on what I should hunt.
How wrong I was. Unbelievably wrong mentality to enter with.
Ed first came around the room for a quick hi-ya who and where ya from meet and greet. Then Ed proceeded to not only lecture the seminar but kept the audience involved by asking us questions. Showing us how to build better soil for our food plots. How to actually rid our properties of those darned pesky ferns. Killing them off so they do not come back. Showed and gave comprehensive data on what when and where to use different types of food in our plots.

(By the way Ed says a good source to plant.....Sugar Beets)

He showed protien differences between differing food types we put in our plots.



All around if you ever have the chance to see one of Ed Spinazzola's QDM food plot seminars...I highly recomend it. Even for those of you that think you know it all he'll teach you a new trick.


Overall it was a fun time.