Renfro Productions Deer and Turkey Expo
By Richard "The Bee" Becraft

Richard "The Bee" Becraft is U.S. Hunting Today's Product Review Specialist. He is an avid hunter, fisherman and outdoor enthusiast.

The 10th Annual Indiana Deer & Turkey Exposition fits right in with the largest indoor sports show in the U.S. (the Indianapolis Boat, Sport & Travel Show). The Deer & Turkey Expo brings exciting features and seminars from the top experts! From nationally renowned bow hunters and gun dog demonstrations to deer scoring and an indoor archery range, the Indiana Deer & Turkey Expo will bring the great outdoors to the heart of America!
 

Now I did get to put several faces with names and screen names familiar from years of posting on popular Indiana hunting and fishing message boards and their areas of expertise with out question held up to what I'd expected. I met Bud Fields at the Frogg Toggs booth and he spent quite a bit of time explaining the make up of this rain wear. I can't say I've used those, YET, but I can say the concept made sense to me. I'd sure like to try those out some time on a lake some where around Tennessee, Kentucky, or Indiana pulling in some stripers or wipers in this very early spring weather. Those just might come in pretty handy. Might even be a wash financially if it figured to save me a doctor bill from fishing all day soaking wet in the cold. Thing the wife will buy that?

I also made a pretty lengthy stop by the Turkey Tamer turkey calls booth where Mark Taylor put on an outstanding exhibition of slates and box turkey calls. I like these calls and they are made right here in Indiana by a native Hoosier turkey slayer and call maker. Now that what I'm looking for when I hand over a ticket to the Indiana Deer and Turkey Expo. Mark really made it look easy and sound as sweet as a couple of drum sticks plopping on the dinner plate. I know you are calling all that some pretty "golden gab" about right now so I'll cut to the chase, those Turkey Tamer calls were good enough for me to open my own wallet and plop down the cash for a purple heart wood box call to call my very own. That's about the best recommendation I ever give any thing. I'll let you know what the turkeys think of it in a couple of months but I've got high hopes of it spoiling their whole day.

The wall of fame where they had some awesome Hoosier deer mounts was worth the ticket price all alone. If any out of staters are reading this, those all came from Pike county IL. There's no deer in Indiana. The deer scoring area appeared to be a model of efficiency from where I was standing. Unfortunately that was way out side the scoring area with the rest of the hungry mob of coulda, woulda, and shoulda guys wishing we were getting a nice rack scored this year.

Well there is always next year, men, and here's wishing bigger, better, and more of them to us all. See you next year when I bring in MY trophy to get it scored.

Richard "B" Becraft