Team Members :
Besides being a
professional camera operator and field producer,
Kurt
Howard
is the resident
Whitetail guru for the Explorer's Big Game Journal.
Growing up
amongst the Big Bucks of Kansas helped to mold his success in
the field
into an all consuming passion for the outdoors. New challenges
fire
Kurt's drive to succeed and an overwhelming passion for screaming
Bull Elk drove him to relocate to Idaho to better hone his Elk Hunting
skills. His success on public land bulls is proof that he definitely has
what it takes. Kurt has harvested numerous Pope and Young animals
but
refuses to list them in the books. He says “hunting shouldn't be
about
the record books, it should be about the challenge and personal
fulfillment of the hunt itself”. It's a philosophy shared by all the
members of the Explorer's Big Game Journal team.
In an
area with an average success rate of only 15%,
Rex
Summerfield
has
become a stand out with his consistent success rate of well over 80% on hard
hunted
public land Elk. His success with Idaho's deep timber Whitetails is even
higher. “I
live for the next open season” Rex says, and with Idaho's liberal
hunting seasons for
Bear, Deer, Elk, Moose and Antelope he doesn't have much
down time. His law
enforcement career has earned him a reputation for honesty
and integrity and he
brings it to the table on each episode of the Explorers Big
Game Journal. As a
talented writer, professional camera man, field producer and
editor, Rex's skills
complete a well rounded list of competent team members on
the Explorers Big Game
Journal.
Byron Barfield
grew up among the good Ol' boys of the south east
and began shooting his “stick”
bow over 40 years ago. He quickly
developed an uncanny knack for hitting small
objects in the air.
His notoriety grew and groups, schools and sport show
organizers
began to request shooting exhibitions. Its something he has done on
and off for the last 20 years. Byron is also an accomplished hunter
having taken
big game animals across the US and around the world.
He said being charged by an
angry five ton elephant while wielding
only a traditional longbow was one of the
most memorable hunts of his life. He continues to have a heart for youth and
plans to do more work with the schools in order to promote the sport he loves so
much.
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Rockie
Jacobsen,
brings his Elk Calling expertise to the Explorer's Big Game Journal. Rockie is the owner of Bugling Bull Game Call Company
and the inventor of the “Palate Plate” diaphragm call. He won the 2007
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's World Championship Calling Contest,
making him a three time World Champion Elk caller in the Pro division. His
calling skill and notoriety bring a flood of requests for seminars each year
and he commonly gives 20 to 30 separate Elk Calling seminars each summer.
He uses his prominence and takes advantage of the captive audiences at his
seminars to promote sponsor products in front of hundreds of western hunters.
He also sells a complete line of instructional DVD's where he passes on the tips and secrets that have allowed him to shoot over 50 public land Bulls.
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