• BORN 1968 PARIS, MISSOURI
• MARRIED 1997, KATHLEEN
• SON, JAMES RUSSELL “RUSTY” BORN 2003
• HOME IN CENTRALIA, MO
• KNIGHT & HALE ULTIMATE HUNTING TEAM MEMBER SINCE 1999
• OWNER OF A GAME CALL MANUFACTURING FACILITY/KUSTOM CALLS WHICH WAS ACQUIRED BY PRADCO OUTDOOR BRANDS IN JULY 2002
• 30 YEARS OF HUNTING EXPERIENCE
• 29 YEARS OF COMPETATIVE CALLING
• THREE TIME WORLD CHAMPION 1994 & 2002 & 2009
• TWO TIME GRAND NATIONAL WINNER 2000 & 2001
• FIVE TIME GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS WINNER 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006
• TWO TIME WORLD ALL-CALL CHAMPION 2000 & 2001
• WORLD GOBBLING CHAMPIONS 2003
• 2ND PLACE US OPEN FRICTION 2002, 2003, 2004
• THREE TIME MID AMERICA OPEN CHAMPION 1993 & 2000 & 2009
• THREE TIME US OPEN CHAMPION 1999 & 2006 & 2007
• NORTH AMERICAN GOBBLING CHAMPION 2003
• TWO TIME WINCHESTER OPEN CHAMPION 1999 & 2002
• TEN TIME MISSOURI STATE CHAMPION
• KANSAS/MISSOURI STATE OPEN CHAMPION 2002
• TWO TIME KANSAS/MISSOURI STATE OPEN OVERALL CHAMPION 2002 & 2004
• KANSAS/MISSOURI STATE OWL HOOTING CHAMPION 2002
• INDIANA STATE OPEN OVERALL CHAMPION 2002
• INDIANA STATE FRICTION CHAMPION 1998
• KENTUCKY GOBBLING CHAMPION 2002
• CHICAGO HEARTLAND OPEN CHAMPION 2004
• HOSTED THE NEW TV SHOW ON THE MEN’S CHANNEL, ALL AMERICAN SPORTSMAN
HARVESTED NINE POPE & YOUNG CLASS BUCKS AND TWO BOONE & CROCKETT CLASS BUCKS.
COMPLETED A GRAND SLAM OF TURKEYS AND HARVESTED 196 ADULT GOBBLERS WHILE HUNTING 27 STATES.
APPEARANCES ON “TURKEY CALL/TURKEY COUNTRY”, KNIGHT & HALE’S ULTIMATE HUNTING SHOW”, “THE HUNTER’S JOURNAL” , SUMMIT’S HIGH PLACES and HARDCORE HUNTING TV.
APPEARANCE ON THE “HOWARD STERN SHOW” AND SURVIVED. APPEARANCED ON “THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW”.
LIFE MEMBER OF THE NRA.
BENEFACTOR SPONSOR MEMBER OF THE NWTF
HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE DESIGNING AND MANUFACTURING OF TOP-END DIAPHRAGM AND OTHER STYLES OF GAME CALLS