Joe McCarthy
Instructor
Slayer Elk Calls
4th Generation Idaho Native, Joe is a Retired 30 year Idaho law enforcement officer. While growing up, Joe’s father worked and retired as a hunting and fishing Outfitter working both in Idaho and Oregon. Joe and his brother Jim followed in those footsteps guiding hunters and fishermen in Idaho. Joe has hunted elk in Idaho since his football career ended on the blue turf at Boise State. He has hunted exclusively with a bow since 1988 and is often seen with his hunting partner and wife, Shellie. Joe has competed in elk bugling competitions, winning several, and landing in the top 5 the last 2 years at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundations World Championships in the Professional Division. His son, Cody, also competes in the professional division and won in that division in 2021.
Recently, Joe’s greatest joy hunting is being apart of Outfitters for Hope and Corey Jacobsen’s Elk camp taking young hunters who have overcome extreme adversity elk hunting.
Joe currently works with his son, Cody, in product innovation and production for Slayer Game Calls based out of Eagle, Idaho.
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Tom Schneider
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Don't get stuck in the rut
I have had an obsession with learning about wildlife even long before I was of age to hunt. When I finally hit the legal age to hunt in Idaho, I didn't waste any time and knocked down my first bull elk, and have been hooked ever since. The years of knowledge from my dad and his friends hunting and bugling bulls got passed down to myself and my other siblings, giving us an edge early in our teenage years. With that knowledge and our family's history in adapting to changing environments, time and time again, I continue to harvest big bulls on public land with Over the Counter tags in regions that don't have the "Big Bull" reputation. I am now 34 years of age and have taken 23 bulls total out of the backcountry, and I have called in multiple elk for my family and friends. With this knowledge, I want to share it with those who have a strong desire and passion to have consistent success, and pull more elk off the mountain every year."
https://www.stuckntherutmuledeermasterclass.com/us
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Jake Kremer
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Whitetail 101
Jake is a native-born Idaho resident; he has been chasing whitetails for the last 20 years in the mountains of Idaho. Jake has harvested 10 whitetails over 130 inches with modern firearms. Since retiring his rifle he has harvested 5 Pope and Young whitetails with his bow, the largest of which being in the top 10 whitetails of all time with a bow in the state of Idaho. I
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Wilson McSwain
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Turkey Hunting 101
Wilson has been successfully chasing turkeys all over the country for the past decade. His love for the Wild Turkey keeps him in the woods as much as possible. From big East Coast Eastern Turkeys to mountain Merriam’s Wilson loves it all.
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Turkey Hunting 101
Bruce McGlenn
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A holistic approach to beginning and expanding your hunting journey
Founder and lead instructor of Human Nature Hunting, Bruce McGlenn has nearly 40 years of bird and big game hunting experience in the Pacific Northwest. Passed down from his father, hunting has been a way of life for Bruce from the beginning. He sees as much importance in the experiences and personal growth gained from hunting as he does a source of healthy food and connection to nature.
A third-generation hunter/gatherer of the Northwest, Bruce has been helping people reclaim their hunting heritage since the 1990’s, officially with the Awaken the Hunter course since 2016. He has been teaching introductory hunting and shooting classes with the non-profit Washington Outdoor Women since 2001 and has guided fly fishing and whitewater rafting. He is a certified Master Hunter and shooting instructor, holds a Master’s degree in sustainable business and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Washington.
Bruce is a committed steward of the land and wildlife, primarily due to his understanding and appreciation of our ecosystem from engaging in it as a participant - a hunter. His desire to help heal and strengthen the human connection to nature is what inspires him to teach and pass on his skills so others can experience the journey of the hunt with confidence.
https://www.humannaturehunting.com/#introduction
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A holistic approach to beginning and expanding your hunting journey
Everett Headley
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HOWL for Wildlife
Raised outdoors in Montana, Everett has an undeniable passion for all things hunting (and angling) and helping others discover those same experiences. His pursuits span the spectrum upland to big game, archery to muzzleloading. When he isn’t in the mountains, Everett is involved in state conservation ]with Montana FWP as a council member working on education, access, and landowner-sportsman dynamics. He enjoys waterfowling with his Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Cane, and flying his peregrine falcon, Freyja. For the past several years he has spent his time creating and teaching hunter education programs as well as being a frequent guest on podcasts, workshops, and events with a focus on hunting ethics. You can find more of his work on his website or Instagram.
https://www.everettheadley.com/
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HOWL for Wildlife
Blake Abbott
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Sharing the Outdoors - First Hunt Foundation
Blake grew up in a multi-generational hunting family that kicked off the season dove hunting every year as a family. He completed hunters' education at a young age and was mentored by his father on harvesting and proper cleaning by age 10. He continued to hunt throughout his childhood and into his adult life. In his 20's, he became confident enough in his own abilities to begin unofficially mentoring other hunters, with the emphasis on respecting the harvest through proper preparation, harvesting and processing. In November 2022 Blake accepted the FHF Treasure Valley Chapter President role and in July 2023 he accepted the responsibility of the Idaho State Director. Blake's passion for sharing the outdoors with others continues through the mindset of preserving the heritage of conservation and aiding people in ethical knowledge of game and game preservation.
https://firsthuntfoundation.org/find-a-mentor/
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Idaho Fish & Game
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Idaho Fish & Game
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Sarah McGlenn
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For Women Only - Awaken Your Inner Artemis: Becoming a Wise Huntress
Sarah McGlenn is a midwife, mother and former vegetarian turned hunter. Together, she and her husband Bruce run Human Nature Hunting School (www.humannaturehunting.com IG: @humannaturehunting), where they help people connect more deeply with nature and gain the skills and confidence to experience the journey of the hunt. Sarah also offers holistic guidance for preconception, pregnancy and birth and helps women become the wise mothers they want to be through her online midwifery practice, Human Nature Birthing (www.humannaturebirthing.com IG: @humannaturebirthing). She and her family live in a cozy log cabin in Northeast Washington.
https://www.humannaturehunting.com/#introduction
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For Women Only - Awaken Your Inner Artemis: Becoming a Wise Huntress
Trevor Austin
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Pacific Custom Calls
Pacific Calls ?was founded in 2011 in Spokane, Washington by Alex Yerges and Trevor Austin. An American dream story, two guys in a backyard shed started hand turning duck calls. As time moved on they upgraded to a two-car garage, a small office, a manufacturing shop, and now today, a huge stand alone building in Post Falls, Idaho. We manufacture everything 100% in house with 100% American sourced materials. Proudly built right here in the PNW
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North Idaho Archery
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Archery Shoot Organizer
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Chris Jones
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Backcountry Medical for Hunters
Chris is a full-time Firefighter/paramedic in Spokane County and Co-owner and lead instructor for Response Ready Medical®. Chris started working in the fire service straight out of high school for the past 17 years. Chris has been working on wildland crews since his first summer out of high school and has vast experience in remote environments working as a line medic and off a REMS unit providing rapid EMS care and extraction for crews including utilizing helicopters. Chris has been a paramedic for 13 years, started out on an ambulance and now works as a paramedic for the fire dept. Chris works off a ladder truck for his fire dept and is on the Tech Rescue Team which provides rope rescue, confined space, building collapse, search, trench, and machine entanglements. Chris runs the county Rescue Task Force team which trains with the Spokane County Sheriff Office and provides Tactically trained paramedics for SWAT call outs and large-scale active shooter events. Through Response Ready Medical® Chris works with schools, businesses, large public spaces, and churches to provide risk assessments to better prepare public spaces for active threats. All of Response Ready Medicals instructors are full time paramedics or law enforcement. They provide active threat training, Bleeding Control, CPR/AED, First Aid, and Back Country Medicine. Lastly Chris works to provide Bleeding control kits and wall mounts to public spaces, schools, and public spaces.
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Backcountry Medical for Hunters
TJ Greaney
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Why our grandkids won’t be able to hunt, unless…
TJ is an award-winning outdoor adventure writer, radio show/podcast host, and past President of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association. He published a Texas lifestyle magazine with his wife Sandra for more than 25 years from their former home in Austin, Texas. TJ is an avid deer, turkey, elk hunter and hiker. If you ask TJ his passions he would tell you. Jesus Christ, his family, the ministry of KOZ, writing, coffee, bacon, and the cool air of the mountains. He is involved daily working with KOZ leaders, creating materials, fundraising, and mentoring.TJ & Sandra have three adult children with top-shelf spouses and a heard of amazing grandkids, They live on a small hobby farm in Smithville, Texas and loving the country lifestyle!
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Why our grandkids won’t be able to hunt, unless…
Northwest Hunt Fest
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Chris King
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Field dressing & Gear Up for Success
Chris discovered hunting on his search to secure the highest quality food on the planet. Little did he know he had stumbled across something that combined all of his passions - nature, backpacking, shooting, food, adventure, spirituality - into one incredible pursuit.
Chris experiences hunting as a way of life where one can find meaning, personal growth and a deep connection to the natural world.
Chris found hunting later in life. He did not grow up in a hunting culture or with mentors. He learned the hard way through intense study and lessons learned in the field. After a decade he feels grateful to have the skills necessary to consistently provide wild food for his family.
The only thing that makes Chris happier than hunting himself is sharing these life changing skills with others and shortening their own learning curve. He is a passionate teacher and speaker. Chris has a true gift for distilling complex subjects into bite sized pieces of actionable information.
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Penny Burciaga
Master of Ceremonies - Founder & Executive Director
Northwest Hunt Fest
Penny was born and raised in North Idaho, growing up in a family that lived off the land, hunting all their meat from the mountains she called home. Just two short years ago, a close friend introduced her to archery and took her elk hunting. Life was never the same after that. Penny discovered a love for chasing elk and whitetail through the mountains, and she embraced the endless pursuit of becoming the best hunter she could be, aiming to help others do the same. An educator at heart, Penny started Northwest Hunt Fest to live out her passion for hunting and to pass along hunter education to the next generation. Her vision for Northwest Hunt Fest is to see it grow into the premier hunting education festival in the US, serving thousands of hunters each year with the finest in hunter education.
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Sunny Aundrea Freeman
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Sunny Skies Retrievers
Sunny Skies Retrievers is located in the gem state in lovely Lenore, Idaho. Sunny Skies is a small kennel that is veteran-owned and operated. Sunny Skies' goal is to promote a great partnership with you and your hunting buddy/ family member. To do this we build the confidence of the animal by teaching the skills to be successful and continue reinforcing throughout the learning process. Once your dog has been trained, we like to train the owner as well, so that they know how to handle their team to the best of their ability. For us it’s all about the dogs and bringing out the best in them so they perform the tasks asked of them. Whether that is to be successful in hunt tests or being steady and quiet while the ducks come into your favorite hunting blind. Let's get it done!
https://sunnyskiesretrievers.com/
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Kate Small
Instructor
Western Wolf Academy
Kate Small, Co-founder of the Western Wolf Academy and former board member of the Foundation for Wildlife Management, brings a diverse background to the table, having worked as a registered nurse in Emergency Medicine and Neuroscience, as well as being an avid big game hunter with a specific focus on wolf management through hunting and trapping.
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