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Outdoor writer Steve Hickoff includes in the Hunt Comfort FatBoy in Turkey and Turkey Hunting magazine’s website article A Few of our Favorite Things - Part 2

http://www.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/article/Favorites2

Some excellent turkey hunting content - check out the site:

 http://www.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/GeneralMenu/

Steve tells us that the FatBoy has played a valuable part in some memorable gobbler hunts this year.  A comfortable, relaxed sit sure helps with being patient.

Hunt Comfort Announces Design Challenge 2008
Hunt Comfort announces its first annual Design Challenge. Hunt Comfort is posting a $1000 bounty for the best, most innovative folding hunting seat design idea.
“Hunt Comfort is constantly improving its products by listening to the great ideas of hunting enthusiasts, and this annual contest is the start of a new tradition for us,” says David Robinson, president of Hunt Comfort. “We want to reward our customers’ great ideas with a paycheck.”
Since Hunt Comfort designs its products for dedicated hunters, the company is seeking creative folding designs with or without a frame that it can use to improve existing products or to develop a new product. The award may also be given for an enhancement or accessory idea.
If you feel like you have an idea that may be patent-worthy, please have someone witness and date your idea before you send it in. Hunt Comfort will advise any participant who sends in a patent-worthy idea. 
Put on your thinking caps and go for the green. All entries must be submitted with a clear drawing, model or photograph. 
Mail, fax or e-mail entries to Hunt Comfort with attention to Design Challenge 2008.
Deadline for submission of entries is September 2, 2008.
Check out blog.huntcomfort.com for competition guidelines and updates.
E-mail: sjm@huntcomfort.com
Hunt Comfort
112 Owassa Road
Evergreen, Alabama  36401
Phone: 888-757-3232, Fax: 251-578-3524
 

Writer and photographer Judd Cooney with a beautiful Iowa 10 point buck this past fall.  Clearly Iowa is growing some beautiful and heavy whitetails.  Check out Judd’s site at http://www.juddcooney.com/whitetails.htm .  Judd is toting a Hunt Comfort FatBoy. 

I could not believe my eyes and I could not keep the camera still.  We have been following a white deer since 1999 and when we saw three it was heart jumping exciting.  Luckily. I was able to get photos.  Monday I sent photos off to a couple of people and it was agreed that the deer were not albino because their eyes were not pink - right? Wrong!  Dr. Sid Wilroy, a dear friend and geneticist, corrected our common misconception that albinos must have pink eyes.  It turns out the an albino can have white pigmentation and blue eyes.  So… Albinos with the classic milky white skin and hair are often found with dark eyes.  The scientific name for this is tyrosinase negative and it is inherited as autosomal recessive.  Inbreeding of the herd??

Finally, another interesting piece of genetic science - a missing link from Dr. Wilroy: Another type is called piebald and these are inherited as a dominant meaning if a parent has this there is 1out of 2 that that parent will pass it on. 

And if you are interested in more White Deer check out this site sent to us from writers

Bob Humphrey and Lon Lauber:

http://www.senecawhitedeer.org/history/history.htm 

I met Paige Darden with www.mytopo.com this summer at a show.  They offer topo maps and aerial photographic maps and I have one on order.  The value of this service is that the map ordered is plenty large at 36″x48″ and it is a hybrid.  Mytopo can combine an aerial image with the topography overlayed (very nice having both).  Tic marks are included and resolution is user selectable.  The map I ordered is laminated.  We use maps extensively in wilderness areas and I am excited about this service.  Great idea.

Kim Wolhuter,wildlife photographer and filmmaker, wrote us about the Climb-On and his quote sums up the response we are after: “ Geez it sits well. Very comfortable. Usually my bum gets numb or get stiff legs but none of that on your seat.  Brilliant!”

Check out Kim’s world at www.wildcast.net speaking of brilliant!

If you are interested in the African wild or its animals then you have to check out Wildcast.  The link  http://www.wildcast.net/ will stay on our links.  The images and film clips from Kim Wolhuter are amazing.