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Welcome to
ShoMeOutdoors.com!
ShoMeOutdoors.com Staff
Forum Name
MoHuntress
Dena Calkins is the owner of ShoMeOutdoors.com. She was born in Rolla,
MO and has lived in Franklin County, MO her entire life. “I absolutely
love Missouri. As an outdoorswoman, I can’t think of a better place to
reside, than in Missouri. There’s always something in season, we have
thousand upon thousand acres of public land available to hunt, and we
have some of the best fishing holes in the United States. I’m also a
huge fan of Missouri’s Conservation Department. In my opinion, they are
a top notch agency and are doing a fabulous job.”
Dena, 49, has been hunting and shooting since she was in her late teens.
“I’ve been fascinated with guns my entire life. When the neighborhood
girls were playing Barbie’s, I was sporting a holster with shiny, pearl
handled, cap pistols on each hip. Just down the street where I lived in
Sullivan, MO, there was an appliance store. The neighbor boy and I would
drag appliance boxes up the street to a grown up vacant lot. We would
both climb inside the box and cut small openings on all four sides so
that we could see out. We were hunters, he and I, and the best of
friends. Anytime a butterfly, bird, squirrel, or rabbit came in to view,
we would carefully draw our cap pistols and stick the muzzle end through
the slots we had cut in the sides of the box. Carefully and very
quietly, we’d pull the hammer back, take aim, and gently squeeze the
trigger. Then, we’d argue about who made the best shot. Well, there was
no way that I was going to let a boy outshoot me! No way! Over the
years, my love for shooting kept growing. In 2003, a very dear friend of
mine introduced me to competitive shooting with traditional black powder
rifles and pistols. I thought it was going to be easy, but was I ever
wrong. These matches are shot at distances of 25, 35, 50, and 100 yards.
All of the matches are shot at paper targets which consist of various
sized round bulls and an assortment of animal silhouettes on paper. The
matches are shot off hand, with open, iron sights, and I’m here to tell
you, it’s not an easy thing to do, to get a 40 caliber round ball to
leave your rifle or pistol and hit the ten ring at those distances.
Competitive shooting with black powder rifles and pistols is very
challenging and that’s one of the main reasons as to why I enjoy it so
much. In June of 2003, I shot in my very first National Muzzle Loading
Rifle Association sanctioned event near Kansas City; the Missouri State
Championship, and ended up winning second place. Also during 2003, I
shot in several other NMLRA sanctioned matches, including the Georgia
Territorial’s and various other local club matches. In 2004, I shot in
three state championships in Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia, and ended
up winning first place in all of those. Also in 2004, I shot a National
record score in the Georgia Territorial’s that to this day, has not been
broken. Since then, my shooting has took a back seat to other things. My
Dad and both of my Grandmother’s became ill, I became a Grandmother, and
along with some very awesome people from this site, we started hosting
events for Missouri’s youth. In 2005, 2007, and 2011, without any
practice sessions, I did go back and shoot in the Missouri State
Championship, and actually managed to take second place all three times.
I’m hoping to someday devote more time to my shooting, but as long as
there are deer and turkeys to hunt, that’s what I’ll be doing. Speaking
of hunting, I think that it should be mandatory that every person on
this planet, either go deer hunting in the fall or turkey hunting in the
spring, at least once in their life. If more people would give hunting a
try, just once, I’m pretty sure they’d be hooked forever.”
Thank you for visiting ShoMeOutdoors.com. If you haven’t done so
already, please be sure and register to the family friendly forums where
you can meet Dena and the rest of the ShoMeOutdoors.com Pro Staff team.
Forum name
Deerman
Hello, my name is Tim Shoffner, I was born and raised in the St. Louis
area but I spend as much time as I possibly can on the family farm in
Gasconade county. I am an avid hunter and fisherman, my greatest outdoor
passions are bowhunting whitetail deer, hunting turkeys in the spring,
and wildlife habitat management. Another passion is running trail
cameras year round. I also enjoy hunting small game and fishing in the
many rivers and lakes our fine state has to offer, as well as outdoor
photography.
forum name,
Angus
Shawn Gresham is a 38 year old outdoorsman from Salem Missouri.
Interests include archery, whitetail hunting, turkey hunting, along with
hunting for about anything else. His passion is managing and hunting
whitetailed deer and has done so since the age of 6 years old with
firearms and the age of 12 with archery equipment. He hunts his family
farm in Dent county Missouri, as well as a piece of leased property in
Knox county as well. He has the best hunting partner in the world; his
son Colton. Shawn also enjoys trucks and atvs, and four wheeling.
Forum Name; Falcon Girl
Bridget Ulrich is an 19 year old from Shawneetown, a
small town in southeast Missouri. She has been with SMO since February
of 2009. Bridget is a falconer, bowhunter, archer, fisher and avid
outdoors-woman. She has a great love for the outdoors and is attending
Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri to major in
Biology with an emphasis in Ecology and Wildlife Conservation. With this
degree she hopes to gain a career in a Wildlife Conservation-area field,
to help conserve, preserve and restore natural and native land and
wildlife. She has participated in fishing her entire life and has been a
bowhunter and archer since 2006. She began her falconry apprenticeship
in 2007 and has had 3 Red-Tailed Hawks she used to hunt Fox Squirrels,
Grey Squirrels, Cottontail Rabbits and Swamp Rabbits. She was upgraded
from her apprenticeship to general status in February of 2010. She has
trapped a female American Kestrel which she plans to use for hunting
House Sparrows and European Starlings in the summer of 2011. She is very
honored to be serving on the SMO Staff.
Forum name,
Carnivore;
Jesse is
a native Missourian, Who loves to Fish/Firearms Hunt/camp/Shoot and most
anything outdoors. I'm a factory worker, have a Daughter
and Son, And an awesome Extended Family here on Shomeoutdoors.com
Forum name;
Killmode
Jeff Roth is a 46 year old lifelong outdoorsman from Ste. Genevieve
County, MO.
His passions are hunting deer and wild turkey with both gun and bow but
also enjoys hunting small game, fur trapping, predator hunting, fur
handling, fishing, raising and running beagles, farming, wine making,
riding horses and managing property for wildlife habitat. Jeff considers
himself truly blessed to be have been able to enjoy the outdoors
throughout the years, especially with his two sons that have followed in
his footsteps as outdoorsmen. His youngest son, Travis holds the current
World Record for Eastern Wild Turkey, sporting 74 7/8 inches of beards
and scoring a whopping 199.9 NWTF scoring system, which Jeff had the
pleasure of calling in for his son that morning and sharing in the awe
and excitement of a truly unbelievable once in a lifetime hunt. Now that
his sons are grown, he looks forward to mentoring other youth as well as
adults that are new to the outdoors and hopefully someday mentoring his
own grandchildren.
Jeff call tell you some crazy stories around the campfire about his
experiences in the outdoors ranging from the morning he rolled his
pickup on a back road in the Mark Twain National Forest and then
proceeded to call in and kill a nice gobbler while he waited for his
brother to come help him flip it back on it's wheels to the time he
caught an 8 ft. 400 plus pound White Sturgeon in Oregon's Columbia River
on rod and reel, with hundres of pictures and a house chocked full of
taxidermy mounts to back the stories up.
Jeff is employed in the aircraft industry, currently building F-18 Super
Hornets for the U.S. Navy.
Forum name; MrsMOTourism
Kaylin Bade resides in Leslie, Missouri on her family's century farm
with her husband Kevin. When her duties at the farm are finished, her
favorite outdoor pastimes include tractor pulling at local fairs and
festivals with her John Deere 4010 and hunting small game. The Spring of
2011 brought her first turkey season. She recently returned to college
and graduated with an Associate of Arts in Teaching Degree in December
2011 and will continue for her Bachelor's Degree in Secondary English
Education when she returns from maternity leave in January 2013. She
enjoys playing the piano, cooking, baking, sewing, and doing embroidery.
Kaylin was named the official ShoMeOutdoors.com Ambassador in 2010 and
has enjoyed promoting the organization ever since.
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