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“Women in the Outdoors” Fall Turkey Hunt

        With “The Outdoor Channel” celebrity Brenda Valentine!

Randy Phelps and Mary Free-Phelps held a “Women in the Outdoors” fall turkey hunting event, October 23^rd and 24^th at Free Farms. The thirteen ladies arrived at between 4:00PM and 7:00PM Friday, the night before Kentucky’s opening of the fall gun turkey season. That evening, the next days hunting plans were gone over, with assignment of guide and participant and hunt locations, with an emphasis on hunter safety. Mary held a feather crafting class, where the ladies were instructed in making a turkey tail feather wreath. 

Opening morning started at 4:00 AM with a waffle breakfast. Guides arrived to pick up their assigned participant, and then off to their assigned hunting areas. Most ladies saw turkeys that day. Three participants, Joyce Austin of Louisville, KY, Linda Wilson of Belton, KY, and Rosie Wells of Lawrenceburg, KY harvested turkeys. Several other ladies fired shots, but did not make a connecting shot.

Brenda Valentine, the National Wild Turkey Federation’s spokesperson for the “Women in the Outdoors” program, guided Marilyn Biszmaier, from Louisville, KY.

Participants returned to Free Farms, for a class in wild game cooking and Dutch oven cooking. Participants and guides feasted on bear roast, wild hog pot roast, venison pot roast, roast beef, antelope soup, turkey white bean chili, and Dutch oven chicken and cobblers.

Participants had the option of retuning to the woods for a late afternoon hunt. Rosie Wells harvested her bird, during the afternoon hunt.

Those attending the WITO hunt were successful hunters Joyce Austin (Louisville), Rosie Wells (Lawrenceburg), and Linda Wilson (Belton). Also hunting were Marilyn Biszmaier (Louisville),  Tammy Van Meter (Leitchfield), Tina Haycraft (Leitchfield), Mary Cannon (Leitchfield), Debbie Hanna (Florence), Debbie Greer (Florence), Judith Gresham (Louisville), Annie Wilson (Latonia), Susanne Brown (Elizabethtown), and Teresa Brown (Louisville).

The guides that assisted those participants were Brenda Valentine (Paris Landing, TN) Alex Lea (Wilderness Trail Chapter), Larry Churchman (Derby City Chapter), David Gibson (Heartland Chapter), Rob Green (Heartland Chapter), Randy & Mary Phelps (Twin Lakes Chapter), Jarrod Haycraft (Twin Lakes Chapter), Ken Adams (Heartland Chapter), Freck Cannon (Twin Lakes Chapter), Kyler Cannon (Twin Lakes Chapter), and  Mark Austin (Georgetown, KY)

Landowners that shared their farms, for this WITO hunt, were Ricky Alvey, David Gibson’s family, Eugene Logsdon, and Randy & Mary Phelps.

BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY CHAPTER HOSTS WITO PHEASANT HUNT

By Mary Free-Phelps, Volunteer State WITO Coordinator

The Breckinridge County Chapter organized and hosted a Pheasant Hunt on February 28, 2009, at the Clover Creek Hunting Farm in Hardinsburg, KY.  Eleven women participated in the planned activities which included a one-day Pheasant hunt, a silent auction and lunch.  The weather held out, everyone had a wonderful time, and this event yielded successful huntresses as well.

The Breckinridge County Chapter would like to thank all the women hunters that participated: Cheri Lynch, Joyce Austin, Marilyn Biszmaier, Rita Beach, Tammy VanMeter, April Rogers, Vicki Richie, Betsy Miller, Linda Wilson, Rosie Well and Mary Free-Phelps.

The chapter would also like to thank Jeff Tate and Chris Barr (owner and manager of Clover Creek Farms), Matt Cannon and Leon Salman, members of the Breckinridge County Chapter, who helped in the field.