Derby City Game Calls

Derby City has a new treasure. We took our banner to Nashville and had it signed by many great people. Our friends from Osage Roost, great call makers and a few famous hunting celebrities signed this banner. Thanks to everybody for signing the banner. We will hang it proudly in our shop as a reminder of what a great time Derby City Calls had at the 2010 NWTF Convention.

Derby City would like to thank John Allen for supporting us at the NWTF Convention. Black Gold was the only dog food supplier at the show and was well received by the people. Many people came by the booth to say they feed Black Gold to their pets. For everyone who loves Black Gold,  go to their website and click on “find a dealer”. Enter your area code or zip code, the range of miles you are willing to drive,  and that should bring up dealers in your area . Do yourself and your pet a favor, pick up a bag of Black Gold.  Your pet will love it.  For more information on Black Gold, click on the link on Derby City’s home page.  Thanks again for your support.

There were many hunting celebrities at the NWTF Convention this year, just ask Brent.  He is still on cloud nine after meeting Tiffany Lakosky.  We had a hard time getting Brent back to our booth after meeting her.  Brent made it a point to meet most of the big name hunting celebrities, Lee & Tiffany Lakosky, David Blanton, Harold Knight, and David Hale.  The Hunter’s Specialties and Primos Pro Staffers were all very approachable and easy to talk with.  The Bone Collector crew (Michael Waddell, T-Bone, and Nick Mundt) were crowd pleasers as well.  The convention was a great way to meet a lot of people, not just hunting celebs.  We met all kinds of wonderful people (great callmakers, regular everyday hunters, business people, NWTF staff, etc…) and made some great cotacts.  The NWTF Convention was a great experience and we look forward to attending it for years to come.

I am still trying to figure out why Brent did not put his arm around Lee as well.  Did he even know Lee was in the picture?  Brent had better watch out, Lee looks to me like he stays in pretty good shape.  Just look at the pictures.

Many youngsters visited Derby City’s booth at the NWTF Convention.  These young kids made for some of the most memorable moments at the convention.  We loved to have them come by and play with our calls.  Some played them like a pro and others have some practice ahead of them.  The good things is that they all had a good time and all have an interest in hunting.  We would like to say thank you to all the parents for instilling a desire to hunt in their children.  The future of hunting lies in their hands, that is why we encouraged every kid who came by our booth to scratch on our calls.  The picture of the little girl in this blog speaks for itself.

We were pleasantly surprised at the response our calls received at the NWTF Convention this year.  Derby City placed 4th with our Aluminum Magnum in category 6.  The Tracker placed 3rd in the trough call division.  For a young company, we are extremely proud of these accomplishments.  However, it was not the medals that made us the most proud (although that helped a lot), it was all the kind and positive comments that we received from everyone at the booth.  Derby City would like to thank everyone who came to our booth.  We enjoyed talking, interacting, and making connections with everyone.  To everyone who purchased one of our calls, we hope they put many birds in your vest for years to come.  To everyone who just stopped by to look or chat, we enjoyed the opportunity to talk a little turkey with you.  We think the future looks bright at Derby City Calls.  Derby City…….Good Call.

Derby City recently sent some call building supplies to students at Muhlenberg County High School.  Under the guidance of teacher Scott Cronin, these students have been busy building turkey calls since the beginning of February.  Mr. Cronin, his fiancee Morgan, and all of his students came by and spent some time at our booth on Friday, Feb. 19th.  Scott teaches a wildlife management class and always covers a unit on wild turkeys.  He wanted to have his students build turkey calls, but needed some supplies to get started.  Derby City was fortunate enough to be able to donate the materials to build these calls.  We appreciated Scott, Morgan , and all of the students for coming by our booth.  They are a great group of kids.  We look forward to helping them again in the future.

Good friend and Customer Lanny Crawley of Greenwood, IN sent us this note along with some pictures of some Turkey’s he called using his Derby City Game Call.  This is in Lanny’s words.

” Jeff,

   I was working in an area that I knew held turkeys, so one morning I parked off the road, opened my window and started calling turkeys using your slate turkey call that I bought when I ordered my guitar.  As you can see the call works!  I called three Hens & two Jakes.  It took some time but eventually the three hens jumped on the back of my truck and one hen jumped up on the roof.  Dumb Indiana Turkeys!  I’ll see you when my guitar come in.

Thanks, Lanny.”

Lanny,  thanks for sharing this with us and good luck in Turkey Season!    Derby City

All the guys here at Derby City Game Calls have been working overtime to get ready for this years NWTF Convention.  We have a lot of exciting products for sell and to display.  From our Magnum and Spur designed Turkey calls, to our new Tracker Trough call. Along with these we are also bringing unbelievable sounding and gorgeous Old Growth Strikers, we even have our very first Special run “250 year old California Old Growth Redwood”. For those attending the show come by and say hello, we are located at Booth 1061.  Brent, Jimmy, Bob, Eric, Jeff and Dave are all coming down this year and we look forward to meeting a lot of new friends and having a good time.

See you there!

 Our good friends at Poorboys Outdoors came by the shop the other day and helped us by putting together a YouTube video to showcase our calls and strikers. Poorboys specializes in video production of outdoor hunts. They have a great website www.poorboysoutdoors.com check them out.

With all the fundraising going on during the Southwest Spurs 8th Annual Hunting Heritage Banquet they have a very special presentation that is one of the highlights of the evening.  The Stanley Boyd Memorial Scholarship.  This is an annual presentation of a $ 500.00 Scholarship and is awarded to recipients of only the highest standards and ethics.   This year’s recipient was Jake Hall.  Jake is a senior at Pleasure Ridge Park High School, he is a 3 year varsity baseball player, is on the Student Council, Beta Club and Honors Program.  He carries a 3.4 GPA.

Jake plans to further his education at Lincoln Trail College in Illinois were he will be attending college on a baseball scholarship.