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Jack Fetter from Pennsylvania

Josh Medlin from Oklahoma

My name is Joshua Torrence Medlin and I was born and raised in Tulsa Oklahoma. I am 21 years old, have 4 younger brothers, and have a 4 year old chocolate lab female. I can still remember my dad and grandpa taking me squirrel hunting and fishing when I was 3 or 4 years old. This instilled the respect and love for the outdoors I still have today.

When I was 8 my step dad took me duck hunting and from the moment that first duck came in I knew I was hooked for life. Being able to inspect every mallard and wood duck that they shot while sitting on the bank of a timbered slough still lingers today when I shoot my own ducks, geese, turkeys, deer, or whatever game I may be chasing.

When I turned 16 and could go hunting on my own duck hunting went from being a hobby to a passion and addiction. I now blow in duck calling competitions for Betts game calls and in goose competitions for GK calls. I hunt for waterfowl 70-80 times a year and also turkey hunt in the spring and deer hunt in the fall before season and during breaks.

Overall I'm in the field over 100 days a year not including fishing. I mostly duckhunt in Timber and small potholes but also frequent large lakes, rivers, and marshes when duck numbers dictate. I also goose hunt quite a bit in wheat fields, soybean fields and on large watersheds. When not hunting I attend Oklahoma State University majoring in business management and marketing.

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Josh Edwards from New York

Chad Buehler from Ohio

I was born and raised in NW Ohio near Toledo which is on the SW shores of Lake Erie and its many famous bays and marshes including Sandusky Bay and Magee Marsh just to name a few. I am married with 2 daughters and 1 on the way. I had an interest in hunting at a very early age and began going along with my uncles deer hunting at the age of 13 as a spectator. At the age of 14 I began bowhunting with them. It was also that fall that a neighbor took me waterfowl hunting for the first time. From that moment on and that lone shot I fired to take my first duck, a hen wood duck, a waterfowler was born. During those first few years I began to obsess over geese and how difficult they were for me to hunt and started to dedicate myself to goose hunting. Today that passion for waterfowl still burns inside of me and it seems not a moment goes by that I don’t find myself having “Fowl” thoughts of some kind or another. I am in the field nearly every day of the season even if only for an hour after work. When goose season isn’t in you can find me duck hunting and when neither duck or goose season is in you can find me walleye fishing wishing it was waterfowl season.

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Wade Walling from Illinois