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 Biology & Deer Behavior editor Bob Humphrey: In addition to being an award-winning outdoor writer and photographer, Bob Humphrey is a registered Maine guide and a certified wildlife biologist. This gives him a unique perspective and a breadth of knowledge on hunting and game animals that is unrivaled in the industry.
He has written about hunting and fishing for over a decade and published more than a thousand articles in many of the major outdoor magazines.
Past and present writing credentials include: Editor, Maine Bowhunter. Website editor, NRA Freehunters, Field Editor, Mossy Oak's Hunting the Country. Contributing Editor and Staff columnist: New England Outdoor Times, New England Outdoor Sportsmans Guide, Northwoods Sporting Journal, Maine Sportsman, and Big Buck News.
He has hunted with rifle, shotgun, muzzleloader and bow for more than 30 years throughout the U.S. and Canada. He lives on a 100-acre tract in southern Maine, which he actively manages for wildlife, and he guides turkey and deer hunting and striped bass fishing.
Bob lives in Maine with his wife, Jane, and children Helen and Ben.
www.bobhumphrey.com
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 Shotguns & Blackpowder editor Dave Henderson, a native of central New York, is well into his fourth decade as a professional writer, having won national and regional awards for magazine and newspaper work as well as photography, radio and television work.
The author of five books on hunting and shotguns, Henderson served three terms as the president of the U.S. Association of Shooting Sports Writers and was the media liaison for the shotgun sports at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
He formerly worked as a hunting guide in Idaho, as a taxidermist, was the outdoors correspondent for United Press International, spoke on the NRA's Great American Hunters Tour, produced and hosted radio and television shows, served as managing editor for two magazines and field editor/columnist for several other national publications.
He is currently a field editor for three national magazines, contributes to dozens of others, and is outdoors columnist for two morning daily newspapers in New York, does an annual series of seminars on shotgunning and is an amateur gunsmith, working on shotguns.
Henderson has hunted 26 states and 10 Canadian provinces; he has taken more than 100 white-tailed deer with a shotgun. He lives in Endicott, N.Y., with his wife, Debbie – an award-winning elementary school teacher – and their obnoxious beagle, Cujo. Their daughter, Dawn, is an engineer in Boston.
www.hendersonoutdoors.com
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 Bowhunting editor Dale Larson offers invaluable strategies on hunting trophy whitetails. His seminar entitled “Set-up Strategies for Big Bucks” will leave you with all the information you need to bag a mature white-tailed buck.
Dale, a native Kansan, has successfully hunted whitetails for more than 30 years. He has harvested numerous P & Y bucks, including “Dagger,” winner of Buckmasters Trophy Records’ prestigious Golden Laurel Citation. Dale’s “Four x Four” bucks are the only bucks of that magnitude taken by a single bowhunter in four consecutive years.
Larson also enjoys hunting bighorn sheep, antelope, elk and turkeys, fishing and photography. He has been featured in numerous hunting videos and TV shows, and is currently working with the “American Outdoorsman,” “Ghost Stories” and “Buckmasters.” Dale holds advisory staff positions with major manufacturers including Escalade Sports (Bear & Jennings), Realtree, Nikon, Jim Fletcher Archery, Double Bull Blinds, Winner’s Choice, Flex Fletch, Tink’s, Whitewater Outdoors, and Rivers Edge.
Larson has been actively involved in Quality Deer Management for 15 years and has managed commercial trophy whitetail hunting operations, with a 50-percent success rates. He currently owns Bruiser Whitetail, which offers the ultimate in trophy whitetail hunting in Kansas, as well as other hunting services.
www.bruiserwhitetail.com
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 Deer Ladies editor Kathy Etling has been writing about the outdoors since 1981. Hunting for trophy whitetails and mule deer are her passions. She's been an editor for Buckmasters Whitetail Magazine since its inception. She's the Field Gear Editor for Petersen's Bowhunting and the outdoors writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her books include “Hunting Superbucks: How to Find and Hunt Today's Trophy Mule and Whitetail Deer,” the two-volume set “Bears and Their Attacks,” published by Safari Press, “Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind” and “The Quotable Cowboy,” both published by The Lyons Press, “The Art of Deception: Rattling, Calling and Decoying Whitetails,” and “Bears: The Most Dangerous Game.” Soon to be published are “Bow Hunting's Super Bucks” and an as yet untitled biography about Denise Parker, the youngest American ever to have won an Olympic medal in archery. The latter four titles are published by Woods N' Waters.
Kathy has won many national awards for her writing, including the prestigious William Vogt Award, from the Izaak Walton League, the Western Outdoor Writers (WOW) Apogee Award as well as numerous awards from the Outdoor Writers of America (OWAA). She is a member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA).
pinetreepress@cs.com
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 Deer Sign editor Tom Fegely received B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from Lock Haven State College and Kutztown University, both in Pennsylvania, and taught junior high school environmental sciences for 14 years.
For more than 25 years, he served as the full-time outdoors editor for The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. His 4-5 columns and features per week ran across the Times Mirror and Associated Press Wires. He also produced and hosted 52 shows per year on “Call of the Outdoors,” an NBC-affiliate of WGAL-TV. He has served as columnist and/or field editor for two dozen publications and has written nine books on wildlife and deer and turkey hunting. His specialty is writing and photographing whitetails, wild turkeys and birdlife.
Since selling his initial article in 1968, Tom has received more than 125 awards for his stories and photographs in a variety of publications. His greatest honor is winning the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for his work on three occasions. The annual competition takes place among all newspaper writers across the state with only one award given.
In 2002 he was honored as the Conservation Communicator of the Year by the National Wild Turkey Federation. He also received a Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Fish Commission and three other recognitions from the National Science Teachers Association for his children's nature books.
www.fegelyoutdoors.com
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 Disabled Hunters editor David Sullivan is also the longtime director of the Disabled Hunter Services division of Buckmasters American Deer Foundation. He works tirelessly to create and promote hunting and outdoor-related activities for disabled, ill and terminally hunters of all ages and walks of life.
A motorcycle accident in 1973 at age 13 resulted in the amputation of David’s left leg below the knee. In 1995, he was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, which causes him extreme physical fatigue and pain.
Being young and naive when he lost his leg, he thought doctors would have the medical technology to make him a leg pretty close to the one God had given him and that he would just be able to get on with his life. Nothing was farther from the truth. Much of David’s life has been spent trying to get by on improperly fitted and poorly built prosthetics that caused him a great deal of pain and discomfort. David reports, “When you have never had a properly fitting prosthesis, you don't know the difference. You think what you are experiencing is the way it is supposed to be.”
During his rehabilitation, the reason for him to carry on with life was due to his passion for the outdoors and the support of his friends. Hunting, fishing and camping gave him a chance at feeling completely alive. In the 30 years that he has been an amputee, he has had an untold number of artificial legs built and has endured three complete stump revisions.
David says his greatest hope and acceptance of his disability came in 1987 after opening his heart to Christ. According to David, it was briefly after this decision that God inspired him to rehabilitate and begin reaching out to other disabled hunters.
Buckmasters American Deer Foundation’s (BADF) Disabled Services was established in 1993 after realizing the need for hunting opportunities among people with disabilities. An estimated 1.7 million people with severe physical handicaps enjoy hunting and shooting sports in the U.S. There are literally millions of disabled persons who would get involved in shooting and hunt sports if only given some encouragement and an opportunity.
www.badf.org
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