2006 Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular and Shooting Sports Show

Terry Koper 262-242-3990

Release: Immediately Date: Jan. 6 , 2006

New Seminar Topics and Speakers Highlight Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular

An all-new roster of knowledgeable, well-known seminar speakers and a wide range of new topics highlight the upcoming 2006 Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular, Feb. 10-11-12, at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing. There's a wide range of deer hunting topics, deer habitat development and management subjects for private individuals, bear hunting, and turkey hunting, plus a venison processing specialist showing you how to butcher and process your own deer.

Speakers and their topics include: Art Helin , Turkey Decoy Setups - Why Some Work & Some Don't; Bill Hesselgrave, Venison Butchering & Processing; Glenn/Kevin Hisey, Pope & Young Club, How to Measure & Score Your Trophy Buck, Bull or Bear; Tony LaPratt, Time Management for Whitetails; Dave Samuel, Latest Deer Research Findings: Helping Your Hunting; John L. Sloan, Tactics for Early Season Bucks; Richard P. Smith, Binocs & Scopes: Good Glass Sees Game Better, Faster, Easier, and Bill Wiesner, Bear Hunters - Be Prepared.

Returning for 2006 is the ever-popular Byron Ferguson, the internationally known archery trick shot, who will give Saturday and Sunday performances at the Spectacular. Ferguson shoots wooden discs and pennies from the air, snuffs a candle with an arrow, shoots ricochet arrows into a target's bullseye, and bursts inflated balloons while shooting from all sorts of contorted positions. Ferguson is a veteran bowhunter and has taken more than 150 whitetails, plus black bear, mule deer, moose and game birds.

All seminars are free once you've purchased your admission ticket.

Show hours are 2 p.m. - 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10; 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, and 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. Tickets are $9 one-day adult; $16 two-day adult; $7 for Hunter Education graduates ages 12-18 who completed a course before January 2005 and who show proof of course completion at the ticket window (otherwise, pay adult price); $3 youth ages 6-11, children five and under admitted free when accompanied by adult.

Admission is free for qualified first-year hunters. Any first-year hunter, regardless of age, who received a hunter education certificate between January 1, 2005 and February 9, 2006, will receive free admission to the 2006 Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular when showing proof of course completion at the designated ticket window. On Friday Family Night, all youth ages 11 and under are admitted free when accompanied by an adult.

For details on the 2006 Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular, call 1-800-324-3337 or visit the show's website at (www.deerinfo.com).

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Michigan Deer & Turkey Spectacular Seminar Highlights