Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

THANKS for your efforts in 2016 -- you all continue to be my heroes for spreading our mission of "safe, responsible, knowledgeable and involved hunting and shooting practices and behaviors."

Looking ahead in 2017 -- We will have a lot more of the same on our plates, plus a whole lot of extra gravy!

• HE COURSES - 65,000+ students
  
• Online Registration System
  
• Hunting 101 Workshops
  
• R3 Planning/Implementation
• THEIA Partnership & Conference
  
• TYHP & Texas 4-H/Extension
  
• HE Outreach & Activities
• MORE * MORE * MORE
  

I hope you are as excited as I am to embrace a new year full of more of WHAT WE DO!

HAPPY, SAFE HUNTING over the holidays!

PHOTO:  Can't resist -- Sarah and her Christmas buck -- CONGRATS my lovely daughter!  A big thanks to Jim & Mariane Hall, my cousins, for allowing us the privilege to hunt at their place -- something we don't take for granted!

Steve Hall, HE Coordinator

THANKS for your hard work in 2016!

FY 16 HE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Students Trained - 65,642
• Field Activities - 16,066
• Students that Live-fired - 6,417
• New Instructors Trained - 389
• Active Instructors - 2,492
• HOURS Taught - 47,646
• VALUE of Service - $1,143,504
  
• Courses Held - 4,151

Actors (Hunters) Needed -  For a Game Warden K-9 story, TPWD Media staff needs 4 white males, in their mid 20’s (or looking like mid 20’s) and one white male about 14 or 15 years of age for a reenactment scene. The young hunters will be dove hunting and the youngest will hide his gun and ammo in the woods.  The K-9 will find the gun and ammo. The videographer will be riding with the K-9 unit which shows up after another Game Warden has already approached the group and suspected a gun of being hidden.  Faces of the hunters will be blurred.  Any willing, preferably free, actors to play the parts of the dove hunters? If so, please contact: Bruce.Biermann@tpwd.texas.gov

Instructor Stories - To reach more prospective hunters and continue to remind existing hunters to be safe in the field, Kalkomey's Hunter Ed is now featuring stories submitted by real hunter ed instructors on their blog and social media. They would love to get some input from hunters all across the country. Is there an instructor or two who might be interested in sharing his/her story with new hunters?

You can see an example of one of their popular posts here: http://www.hunter-ed.com/blog/letter-landowner-elk-hunt/

If you think YOU might have a good story to share, please send it to Megan Dyer; Content Marketing Strategist, Kalkomey, LLC at: mdyer@kalkomey.com