Ideas needed

[Maxxed Out]

We are going to be at the Central MN Sportsmans Expo in Sauk Centre the last weekend in August. They have asked us to do two daily, one hour seminars for the three day event.

That's a lot of time and I don't want to do the same thing over and over again. We will be talking about everything waterfowl on both land and water. I'm hoping you guys can give me some ideas on what you would find interesting and would want to be talked about if you were attending.

Thanks!

[eckum54]

As a fellow waterfowl hunter here are couple of things off the top of my head

Proper dog training

new technologies in shells

Land/water decoy spreads

recipes

Current flyway status

Hunting solo...ie techniques for when its just you and your dog...lite decoy setups, canoes, blinds

[carpshooterdeluxe]

We are going to be at the Central MN Sportsmans Expo in Sauk Centre the last weekend in August. They have asked us to do two daily, one hour seminars for the three day event.

That's a lot of time and I don't want to do the same thing over and over again. We will be talking about everything waterfowl on both land and water. I'm hoping you guys can give me some ideas on what you would find interesting and would want to be talked about if you were attending.

Thanks!

First thing you need to do is get a feel for the crowd. Have a loose outline of topics you want to cover, but if every guy that shows up to watch is a diver hunter, it does no good to talk about field goose hunting. I've been to a lot of seminars, and even helped work a few, and regardless of the intended topic of the seminar, you will delve off into other topics based on questions asked by the audience. I would go with 2 main topics, like "field hunting ducks and geese in MN" for the morning show, and "water hunting ducks and geese in MN" for the afternoon. or do just geese in general in the morning, and focus on ducks in the afternoon session. Leaving it broad will help you to steer the seminar in the direction that fits the crowd best.

Here is a trick a well known waterfowler told me one time at a show:

Plant a "ringer" in the crowd to ask questions to keep conversation going if things are slow.

Best thing you can do is be honest and allow others to answer questions if you don't know. Audience participation is what makes seminars fun to be at.