Randy Anderson - Randy understands the language of the coyote. Countless years of focused predator hunting have taught him how to reproduce their language. He knows what to say and when to say it. Where most predator hunters rely on distress calls to lure in coyotes, Randy speaks the language of the coyote to bring them in. Watching him work is amazing. Randy has custom designed a series of calls to his specs that will deliver the sounds he wants when he wants them for calling up predators.
Randy Anderson hales from Butte Nebraska. He’s an earthmover by trade, musician by default, and predator hunter by the grace of God. He is by far, the most passionate predator hunter we know. He called in and shot his first coyote at the age of 14 and he’s been hard at it ever since.

Seminar Topic: To Howl Or Not To Howl

Les Johnson: My childhood was spent on a farm in south-central Nebraska. My summers were filled with fishing for catfish, walleye, white bass, etc. Hunting and trapping were the major activities for me in the fall and winter. One of my greatest passions whenever I was about 14 was to decoy ducks into shooting range. I loved to call and shoot my limit of “greenhead” or drake mallards on a cold November morning. As the winters progressed and waterfowl seasons closed, my attention turned towards coyotes and other furbearers. Most of my take came from trapping, but I always had an interest in outsmarting ol wiley coyote.
I started calling coyotes whenever I was 16, but little to no luck. I didn’t put forth much effort and thus did not reap any rewards. As I grew older, my curiosity for outsmarting coyotes became a larger priority. As I pursued a degree in Animal Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I could be found hunting/calling on most every weekend in the fall and winter months. I remember one particular time in which I came home from college on a weekend in which we received about 5-6 inches of fresh snow. Wanting to know more about what makes a coyotes mind tick; I wanted to track coyotes in the fresh snow to see if I could get within shooting range without spooking them. On this particular day, I managed to successfully take 3 coyotes just from tracking them. 2 of them could’ve been shot with a shotgun as they jumped up within 10 yards of me.
I tend to be a goal oriented type of person, and this is the point in my life in which I decided that I set forth my life’s ambition and passion, calling coyotes. I loved to call coyotes, and my brother and I started to compete in competitions. Many, many friendships were made from all across the country, and that is primarily what keeps me competing at this day and age. To date in the competition arena, I have a World Championship, 2 Midwest Championships, and 5 National Coyote Calling Championships to my credit. Numerous 2nd and 3rd place finishes as well. I have accomplished all that I could’ve ever wanted in the competition arena, and my focus and goals have turned more towards my television show, Predator Quest. My show, Predator Quest, won 3 awards my first year of airing. From The Sportsman Channel, Best Show Open and Best Small Game or Turkey Episode, and I won a silver Davey Award in a national competition with my show open.
Currently, I have begun working on my own line of Predator Calling Products, of which will be my own line of hand calls. I hope to have those released by fall 07 along with more predator calling DVD’s.
Some of my personal best records in predator calling include my Triple Crown Championship. Winning the World, National, and Midwest Coyote Calling Championships in the same season. 4 ½ days of calling competition, 3 different locations, 42 coyotes total. My brother Jeff was my partner in two of these competitions, the Midwest and National. Jeff has been a great part of my success and will continue to be a huge asset to my television show. I would not be able to do it without him. I consider him to be one of the best hunters that I have ever had the opportunity of hunting with, so thanks for all that you do my brother!
I am currently 37 years old and thankful for everything that God has graced me with!

Tony Tebbe is a world known custom predator call builder, dedicated predator caller, moderator of Predator Masters, moderator and lifetime member of OPHA, a member of the Predator Pursuit Pro Staff, and most recently, an outfitter/guide/instructor of Predator University.

Tony was born and raised in central Illinois, where he called and killed his first coyote at age 14. From that moment on, his addiction to calling predators has become a life long pursuit, for the past 26 years. He has coursed, trapped, and called coyotes across the Midwest for the first twelve years of his predator addiction. In his late twenties, running dogs and traps fell to the wayside to focus 100% on calling and call building.

His passion for predator calling has taken him calling in 18 different states across the country. This has allowed him to learn about predator behavior in a variety of environments and terrains, and to adjust scouting, stand locations, and calling techniques appropriately.

Not only a seasoned predator caller, Tony is best known for building some of the finest custom predator calls in the world, TT Custom Predator Calls. Countless hours in the call shop have allowed him to consistently design some of the loudest, most realistic, and easiest to blow open reed calls in the world. His one piece designed horn howlers and distress calls are on lanyards in 48 States, and 7 Countries across 4 Continents.

In 2008, with the support of his wife and children, Tony has begun fulfilling his life long dream. He has taken his passion, experience, knowledge, training ability, and family to open up Predator University, a full time predator calling school and guiding service in West Texas.

Freddie McKnight grew up in the woods, fields and streams surrounding central Pennsylvania, a place he still calls home. He started writing an outdoors column in a local newspaper in 1993, and in 2003 walked away from a real world job to pursue a career in the outdoors. Today he owns and operates Working Man Outdoors, where he still writes but has added photography, videography and seminar speaking to his slate.

He has been able to travel extensively throughout much of North America, but predator hunting close to home is still one of the most cherished activities. He has learned the ways to hunt amid the growing human population of this area, taking numerous fox, raccoon and coyote along the way.

Penning a number of predator hunting articles each year, McKnight is frequently called upon for predator hunting seminars in his home state of Pennsylvania and beyond. He is best known for his extensive knowledge on hunting gray fox, a species that he feels gets largely overlooked by predator hunters in the east.

He has produced a DVD entitled Getting Started: Predator Hunting, aimed at informing want-to-be East Coast predator hunters with the knowledge they will need to get started in this exciting sport. He is also working on a night hunting production for future release.

McKnight currently resides in Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania with his wife Tammy where he can be found pounding away at the keyboard of the computer when not out in the woods or along the stream.

Jon Paul Moody, of Northwest Tennessee, is the reigning World Predator Calling Champion. Hunting most of his life, Moody specializes in hunting the Eastern Coyote. He is a highly sought-after speaker and conducts seminars all across America. Being a student of the Eastern Coyote, Moody has a wealth of knowledge regarding optimizing stand locations, understanding best times of the year to hunt, adapting to coyote habits, hunting pressured coyotes, using decoys, and perfecting calling techniques. During his seminars, those in attendance will be informed as well as entertained with many exciting hunts captured on camera of close encounters with eastern predators; most of which are taken with a shotgun.

Added to Moody’s accomplishments is his recent win of the 2009 West Tennessee Coyote Hunting Contest, in which 65 teams competed. Also, in 2001, Moody won the Hunter Division World Championship of the NRA Great American Game Calling Challenge. In 2005, he and his calling partner, Mark Prudhomme, won the Team Calling Championship of this same contest. This contest has been called “the Super Bowl of Game Calling.” Contestants are required to call seven different species consisting of Canada goose, wild turkey, barred owl, elk, mallard duck, whitetail deer, and coyote/predator.

Jon Paul Moody is founder of Harvest Outdoor Ministries, Inc., director of SonRise Adventures Youth Sportsman Camps, and pro-staff member of Flambeau/MAD Calls and Hevi-Shot. He, his wife, Erin, and son reside in Buchanan, Tennessee, where Moody is executive director of Covenant Ranch.

I shot my first coyote in 1959, since then I have called coyotes in 22 states and Mexico with many well known callers such as Gerry Blair, Les Johnson, Gerald Stewart and Byron South. With my son Tyler, I have appeared in 26 magazine articles, belong to 5 predator calling clubs, won 70 plus trophies and plaques for field and stage competitions, produced "Up Close and Personal", make and sell "Higgins Howlers". Tyler and I own and operate PredatorProfessionals.com, and I presently serve as President of Phoenix Varmint Callers Inc. and Program Director of Arizona Predator Callers. This year I received the Sportsman of the Year Award from Arizona Predator Callers.

Today my primary interest lies in understanding the nature of the coyote and I give seminars in "The Art and Science of Coyote Vocalizations and their Application to Calling", "The Four Social/Biological Seasons of the Coyote", and "Anatomical Features That Influence Behavior".

"The Art and Science of Coyote Vocalizations and Their Application to Calling"

Learn and understand the eleven vocalizations identified by Dr. Philip Lehner and Bill Austin.

Understand when and how to use these vocalizations and when and where NOT to use them.

I was born, raised and reside in North Texas. Even though no one in my immediate family hunted, I had a strong desire to hunt from a young age. I have always felt like "I was born to be a hunter". At the age of 13, my family and I moved to the country where the whole outdoors opened up to me. I soon became a "hound man", hunting rabbits and raccoons whenever the opportunity presented itself. Things would change at age 15 when I was introduced to predator calling by an older gentleman. This interest led to other hunting opportunities such as deer, turkey and hogs. Now I hunt everything Texas has to offer and more, learning to "call em in" instead of chasing them down. I have constantly looked for new ways to hunt and call predators, whitetails, turkeys and hogs.

Hog hunting came to me, I didn't look for it. I started seeing hog sign while coon hunting, but I didn't really pay much attention till I saw a field that had been plowed. It was obvious it hadn't been done by a tractor. A couple of years later while still hunting & stalking whitetails I stumbled onto some big hogs, I was so shocked at the sight of such beasts I didn't know what to do. A few weeks later while I spotted a group of hogs and was able to shoot a small hog. I was immediately hooked, beginning my obsession.

I have now taken hundreds of hogs by many different methods including callin' em in, night hunting, spot and stalk, flush and shoot, ambush, feeders, dogs and even traps. I spend over 200 days a year in pursuit of
one type of game or another. Specializing in hogs and predators; I strive to learn as much as possible about the nature of the animals, the sign they leave behind and what it means in an attempt to help myself and
others become more successful hunters. I feel blessed to be able to do so with my wife Michelle and our five children.

Glenn has appeared in predator hunting DVD's, on the Outdoor Channel hunting hogs and predators. He has written many articles involving hog hunting and predator hunting. He continues his obsession learning as he goes and sharing that knowledge at every opportunity with others.

Let me ask you a few simple questions:

Would you like to learn:
How Kill more fox?
How to select, and set up properly at your calling site?
Scent-control techniques?
The proper calling sequence?
The proper use of your headlight?
Little techniques to lure the fox in close enough for a shot?
How to use the buddy system?
How to make the final shot count?
How to be more efficient overall?

These are a few of the questions I receive in most of my calling seminars. They seem to be repeated over and over, no matter where I'm speaking. This leads me to believe there is a large segment of predator hunters who simply don't have sufficient knowledge on how to be an efficient predator hunter. Yes, anyone can blow on a call and "get lucky" and call in a fox. However, it's the true masters of the sport that know how to make the kill, consistently.

In my seminars at the World Expo, it is my passion to answer all the above questions, and more. I will be showing you exactly what I do in each of these situations. My goal is to have you leave there with the knowledge, and understanding, of how to confidently become a successful predator hunter.

With that said, I'd like to officially introduce myself to you. Most recently, I've been writing about fox calling for several hunting and trapping publications (The Trapper & Predator Caller, Predator Xtreme), sharing information, and learning from others along the way. I also perform fox calling seminars for trapping and predator hunting organizations.
I am also a pro-staffer with Flambeau.

Hunting has always been in my blood. At the age of 10, I received my first gun, a BB-gun. With my new weapon in hand, every spare minute was spent in the woods chasing chipmunks and squirrels, at least until my parents found out. I then moved up to bow hunting for deer at the age of 12. Shot my first deer at 13 using my Bear recurve set at 40 pounds. Heck, that doe was bigger than I was.

In high school, hunting was already firmly ingrained in my soul; that’s all I wanted to do. Bow hunting deer became a “way of life” for me. It now continues to this day. With bow and arrow, I’ve taken deer, elk, and caribou, not to mention all species of small game, and even a turkey.

I became interested in foxes while running my trap line in high school. I purchased a Johnny Stewart record player with rabbit and crow recordings and have been going strong ever since. After serving in the US Navy in the early ‘70s, I picked up right were I left off.

Last year I published a fox calling book (The Ultimate Outfitters Guide to Fox Calling) and am promoting it as an outstanding resource for fox callers. Simply put, I would get discouraged by the same repeated questions at all my seminars. I felt this was a way to reach all sportsmen who struggle with predator hunting in general. I will have the book available at the Expo. Stop by and say hello!

Mark Healy is a second generation Arizona native who was born and raised in the mountains around Globe, AZ. Mark started calling predators in 1986 and in 23 years has called thousands of coyote, fox and bobcat. Most recently, Mark has turned his attention to calling mountain lions (AKA cougars, and pumas). In the past three calling seasons, Mark and his calling partner, Dave Martens, have called more than a dozen big cougars and have shot three.

Most people believe that calling a cougar is a rare predator hunting gift that only happens when calling other predators. However, Mark, who is a business systems trainer and an expert in referral based business models, always believed that lion calling success could be increased through a systemized approach with proper field scouting and animal research.

After many hundreds of library and field research hours as well as gathering data from other successful lion callers, Mark and Dave have developed a proven method for locating, and calling mountain lions. Once an area is determined to have a lion population Mark uses a combination of prey distress sounds and mountain lion vocalizations on his Wildlife Technologies KAS-2030-ML to coax these big cats out of their hiding places.

Mark will be talking about his proven methods of calling, scouting and hunting, the Mountain Lion, the animal that many feel is the pinnacle of Predator Calling in the lower 48. Do not miss this seminar and learn how you can shorten your time in the field getting the big cat to come to your calling!

Mark currently lives in Chandler, AZ with his wife Tracy and son Harrison. He supports his hunting habit with his Allstate Insurance agency and his business training and software company Referral Strategies.

Mark Zepp grew up on a farm in the small rural town of Warsaw, OH. He followed a Redbone coonhound through the river bottoms and hills of southern Ohio, hunted, trapped, fished and called fox with an old predator call his grandfather bought for him.

Mark has spent his entire life working in the outdoor industry. After graduating from Marietta College he spent the next 10 years working in MO for Wick Outdoor Works and has spent the last eleven years in foothill desert country of Arizona. He and his wife Amber are the owners of Zepp's Predator Calls, a recognized name in the predator calling industry. He has hunted and given predator calling seminars all across the country, appeared in several trade magazines and recently featured on Gander Mountain's: We Live Outdoors television program on the Outdoor Channel.

In January 2008 he and Gary Kellar achieved an industry first. They became the first predator callers to successfully call, kill and film a Mountain Lion for Zepp's latest DVD, Free Grass and No Fences.

His industry hero's include Gerry Blair, Gerald Stewart, Dan Thompson and Major Boddicker. "When I was thirteen, I met Major Boddicker at the Western Stockman Show in Denver, CO and purchased a Crit'r Call and instructional cassette from him. The purchase of that call had a significant influence on my life"

Other hero's include include Realtree's Bill Jordan, Jim Shockey, my Dad, John Wick and The Bone Collector, Michael Waddell.

His national sponsors include Realtree, Leupold, FoxPro and Lowrance.

Mark lives in Vail, AZ with his wife Amber their son Wyatt.