Blood Trailing Dogs presented by Sian Kwa
Seminars and guests speakers have always been a big part of the Dixie Deer Classic well at least all the ones I’ve gone to. This year they had return visits by Michael Waddell and Lee & Tiffany some great hunting personalities.
I decided this year to really make an effort to see some of the local presenters given that I know a number of them or at least converse with them on line from time to time. So I missed the main stage and focused on the smaller presentations but the information was great. They offered topics on GPS usage, videoing your hunt, treestand safety & tactics, processing your deer, use of blood trailing dogs, food plots, coyote trapping, to name a few.
On Saturday one of the seminars I attended was Blood Trailing Dogs presented by Sian Kwa a breeder of teckles here in North Carolina. I had met her at a blood tracking workshop she and her husband had sponsored about a year ago. She presented some great information on how to use dogs to blood track wounded game. Currently in NC there is a mix bagged of rules that makes tracking with a dog legal some places and illegal others. Currently a bill is making its way through the state that if becomes law will make the use of blood tracking dogs legal throughout the state.
H.R. Carver of Bioplots
Friday I went to the Food Plot Seminar presented by H.R. Carver of Bioplots. H.R. I met at last year’s show and we both frequent NCH&F. H.R is always helpful when someone has a question about food plots and his presentation didn’t disappoint. Whether you want to plant a number of acres or a small honey hole he covered it. The crowd was small so he was able to answer many questions from the audience which was a real bonus.
Overall the seminars were great and it is obvious we have some local folks that have a lot of knowledge. While Lee & Tiffany and Michael Waddell draw a lot of crowds the local presenters did a bang up job. So the next show you go to don’t overlook the smaller seminars who knows maybe the next big national headliner maybe paying his or her dues at the local level.
