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NWTF
Aug 4, 2009 9:17:46 GMT -5
Post by birddog on Aug 4, 2009 9:17:46 GMT -5
Does anyone here attend the NWTF banquets that are held in your chapter each year? If you attend what does your chapter have? At mine the doors open at 5:30 pm and closes about 11:00 pm,then they have the auction of paintings etc.,then dinner and it's all over..period!!!!!
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NWTF
Aug 4, 2009 20:44:11 GMT -5
Post by mullis56 on Aug 4, 2009 20:44:11 GMT -5
Should be an hour to hour-half of social and visiting time to play games, raffles, silent auction, etc., then dinner and live auction. Good times with fellow outdoorsman. I encourage all to attend and have fun supporting the wild turkey and also a great place to network with fellow hunters and share stories, etc.
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NWTF
Aug 5, 2009 7:45:34 GMT -5
Post by birddog on Aug 5, 2009 7:45:34 GMT -5
mullis56,
I agree with what you're saying but I also think that the NWTF should be at the least having a speaker,movie or something about turkey hunting,instead one man shows up at each dinner,hands out a few small tokens to the veterans...which I do agree with!!!! and other than that they're done for the evening. Do you know how much each chapter makes off one of the dinners? I don't but I do know that it's VERY LOW considering what is done at each of these dinners.
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NWTF
Aug 5, 2009 10:07:39 GMT -5
Post by mullis56 on Aug 5, 2009 10:07:39 GMT -5
Okay, if you think it should be different you can do something about it! Get involved and the NWTF doesn't make much off of each dinner I'm personally inolved in 1, 2 or 3 every year of sponors chapter in the state and that is a lot of profit along with that we have corporate table sponsors always rank highly in the Gross Profit and it isn't much! However, if you feel strongly about it get involved that is what I offer....
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NWTF
Aug 17, 2009 19:15:14 GMT -5
Post by nsporleder on Aug 17, 2009 19:15:14 GMT -5
What are we allowed to change! From what I've been told most of the evening is set in stone.Could be getting bad info on my end but I would like to know the truth.Ran some ideas up the flagpole but got shot down every time. Not looking for a fight just info.I'm the pres. of the chapter and on the banquet comity and would like to find out the truth. I know you are a straight shooter so that is why I'm asking you now. Thanks again for all your help at the Freedom Hunt.Next spring I'll have you a better spot. ;D
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NWTF
Aug 17, 2009 20:48:16 GMT -5
Post by mullis56 on Aug 17, 2009 20:48:16 GMT -5
Right anwsers I don't know, our guy is gone and we have the 'other guy' you have now. We will see how that goes!
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NWTF
Sept 6, 2009 21:05:16 GMT -5
Post by birddog on Sept 6, 2009 21:05:16 GMT -5
Well here's my opinion on the NWTF here in the part of the state...IT'S NOT GOOD AT ALL!!!!!!!!!! First...As I now have the biggest turkey ever killed in Indiana you'd think that they..THE NWTF..would at least ask you to bring that bird to the dinner...wrong!!! I was contacted by Neil Kirby about two weeks before the dinner to be held at Versailles Indiana..why he called was really what threw me for a loop...he only ask me if I was attending and if I knew of anyone else that would be attending...nothing about me bringing the bird to show or anything like that at all...so I didn't go as well as I know of at least 12-15 other regulars that usually attend that didn't go either..and not for the same reason as me. All they want is your money for the auction and games and what is done with the money that they take in beats me..it's sure not used for say re-stocking or anyhting like that is it? ?? I also have talked with Steve Gage,president of the Indiana NWTF before and after the dinner at Versailles and got the same feed back...not a word!!!!!!Oh Tina Tucker at the same place as he is did ask me about the new state record bird and did put a couple of pics on their web site and that's been it...so until I see some changes and big changes with the NWTF I think I'll be staying a distance from them!!!!!!!!!!!! If this turkey that I killed had been the biggest buck taken in this state it would have been totally a different story!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NWTF
Sept 7, 2009 6:33:39 GMT -5
Post by freedomhunter on Sept 7, 2009 6:33:39 GMT -5
I wouldn't let it bother you too much, I couldn't get two members that would care enough to sign off on my record-class typical. It took forever to get my membership stuff, idk. There will never be the hoopla that surrounds a big buck, which is funny because only around 10% of the biggest bucks were actually taken by anything other than blind luck, usually by a novice.
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NWTF
Sept 7, 2009 8:27:29 GMT -5
Post by throbak on Sept 7, 2009 8:27:29 GMT -5
my opinion on the NWTF is that I see more of my dues money going for the good of wildlife than about any org. out there Indiana was given 120,000 $ for land purchased 1,586,788 from the NWTF super funds I have seen scholarships given by the NWTF in the Madison ind. newspapers at graduation time. Ive used the services of or biologist Randy Showalter Ive planted seed the nwtf local chapters have subsidised I am hunting Turkeys the NWTF played a big part in getting here i Have used drills the NWTF have purchased and given to the SWCDs.to use,collect the rent and keep AND THE LIST GO,S ON GLAD i am a member
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NWTF
Dec 7, 2009 19:52:23 GMT -5
Post by ridgerunner on Dec 7, 2009 19:52:23 GMT -5
Yeah I've been on the Comittee of our local chapter for 5 years..I love what they do and we always have a good turn out, but when a banquet is making $30,000 and the local Chapter only get $1000.00 if that, usually less 400 or 500 dollars...for $30,000 take in..it makes the local guys mad..What you have to remember is it's for the Greater Good of the NWTF and what we all love and charish....turkeys and turkey hunting...that's why we do it!....End of Story...The purchase land, habitat, offer seed to member at a discount, restore turkey populations, study turkeys, educate the public and Preserve our Right to Hunt..The NWTF does a great service to the Wild Turkey and the Hunter..Volunteer and get involved.
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NWTF
Dec 21, 2009 17:13:30 GMT -5
Post by gobblerstopper on Dec 21, 2009 17:13:30 GMT -5
When the chapter in our county started up, they had to have a banquet by the end of the year. The chapter started in the middle of summer, so this left a banquet in the fall. There are several other NWTF banquets this time of year, but mostly DU and the such.
They have a "harvest feast" each year as the meal. Not just the typical fried chicken catered meal. They have homemade wild game and veggies from the garden. I think it is a little different and definitly separates them from the typical banquets.
The atmosphere is pretty much the same as the others I have been too, but I see nothing wrong with that. There are only so many different things you can do to bring people in.
I know that at our meetings while planning for the banquet, all suggestions are discussed and usually voted on. When I was able to make the meetings regularly, everyone was able to discuss their ideas.
As far as the chapter only getting a small percentage of the profits, that is true. What that money is used for is also mostly good. Most of my donations to a chapter are specified for the JAKES program, that way the chapter gets to keep it all.
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