Western Rivers (http://www.western-rivers.com) is blessing us with a free E Caller every quarter in 2009. To give away to you our members as we deem appropriate.
The callers they are giving us will be the Day Stalker MP3 Caller.
Since we have an annual contest for fishing, and give away Cabelas and BassPro giftcards boughten from funds in the FNF Bank (http://www.finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?board=39.0).....
and Turkey contests funded in the same manner, along with the Buck and Bow contests...were turning to you guys as our members for ideas on this Promo Give away.
What kind of contest would you like to see implemented to hand these callers out to you folks?
Let's hear some ideas. And to make it interesting and spark some interest, who ever comes up with the best idea and is the one we choose to run with, gets the first Western Rivers Day Stalker E Caller. :biggrin:
I dont know about other areas but here in good ole WV about all we can really use an ecaller for would be yotes and predators and crows so how about a predator competition and then have a crow competition would need a little more filling out the details for both but I only got 5 mins till I head home so will elaborate later
I would think as they are giving four of them, that at least 2 be raffled off to help out with the FnF bank fund. Some sort of coyote contest ie; biggest,most or prettiest. Possibly a photo contest or call maker's contest ie; biggest, most or prettiest.
I say give at least one of the callers to a youth hunter. Maybe a youth predator hunting contest? To qualify send a photo of the youth hunter with the kill. The photo could be with crows, hogs and other varmints to get participation up.
Assign each youth entry a number then once the contest deadline is up draw the winner from the entry pool. Or you could set up a poll for forum members to vote on the youth entries.
A youth hunt prize for sure,and the pics can be posted by a parent grandparent aunt or uncle.
One auctioned,or raffled off to help fund the FNF Bank.
One given to the hunter with the best colored coyote.That will be determined by a member vote
All adults who enter the contest must be an active member here on this board not someone who just pops in to take the prizes from everyone else
That should take care of The first 4
Bill
Bill those are all great ideas, well maybe not the colored coyote thingy, but...............hey that only accounts for 3. What ya got up your sleeve for number 4? :sneer:
Didn't ya read what Jim Wrote
He is gonna give me one for coming up with those ideas :biggrin:
Ah, I see now.
How about one for the best youth write up with pics no matter what the subject is hunting, fishing, trapping, spinning a call.............what ever as long as its a youth thing. Just put a time fram on it and let'm rip. Heck might even gets some youth signing up. And the members can vot eon it too? Like get'n the youth involved. Heck Jim give them all to youths. :biggrin:
Darn good idea Bill.
Essay.........IE A hunting adventure or story to be voted on by other members With pics.
Best wild game recipe......... with picks
FNF Shooting Comp...........We shoot, 1 custom target 5 shot group 400yds or something like that and send picks in for entry:biggrin:
Egg Shoot or something on video at long range :eyebrownod:
I think a minimum number of posts here for any contests. That should keep new members from signing up & winning then just leaving. Or at least a,, example>> "Member since Dec. 1st 2008" stipulation.
A Eastern contest AND a Western contest for predators.
At least one auctioned/raffled off for the FnF Bank.
On the Youth idea I would like to see hand written stories from the youth themselves about their BEST day in the field. It can be comraderie with an adult that takes the time to take the kids, a youths 1st coyote, deer, or even a squirrel. These can be scanned & voted on I think.
The one I would really like to see,, altho I have no idea how to do this one,, is 1 caller raffled/auctioned & the proceeds go to the Ministry Forum right here at the Friends n Family Forums.
HTH
I always enjoy the hunting stories folks write up. A caller doesn't really aply to fishing but who ever wrote up the most hunting stories in say the last 4 months should get one. You know they'll use it, and it could turn into an every 4 month thing. It will encourage folks to be more active and post some great stories. And I'll get to read them :biggrin: I'm not interested in having one myself (call maker) so if you use this idea you can give it to that little fella that was hold up that huge coyote, couldn't find the post but that was wayyyy cool!
I say a hotdog eating contest at the LBL. :eyebrow: :eyebrow: :biggrin:
Quote from: Bopeye on December 07, 2008, 02:09:17 PM
I say a hotdog eating contest at the LBL. :eyebrow: :eyebrow: :biggrin:
I think you'll win for sure.
QuoteI say a hotdog eating contest at the LBL. eyebrow eyebrow
I think you'll win for sure.
wv_yoter if they made it a father son team we wouldn't have a chance Bop and Semp would beat us all. :laf: :laf:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/BopeyeSemp.jpg)
Thats cheatin!! There's no mustard on them dogs!! LOL
My smilies don't work for me this evening.
:confused: :shrug: :biggrin:
I dunno!! They don't work for me on any of the boards I visit.
Keep those ideas coming, folks :biggrin: :congrats:
Surely some more of you have something to throw in here. :wo:
Hmmm...I'll have to go to work and think about this more tomorrow. I do my best thinking there ya know :wo:
Steve
How about giving them away by region, you know like southern state's, northern state's and CANADA. :laf:
Nice try Barry. :laf: But that sounds more like a field testing expedition. :wink:
....... just my 2 cents .... you could all ways pull a name out of a hat but i am shure there is a better idea :confused: :shrug:
When will we know more?
Quote from: alscalls on December 11, 2008, 04:52:55 PM
When will we know more?
Probably when one of us get's it right :pout:
Quote from: CCP on December 07, 2008, 03:50:11 PM
QuoteI say a hotdog eating contest at the LBL. eyebrow eyebrow
I think you'll win for sure.
wv_yoter if they made it a father son team we wouldn't have a chance Bop and Semp would beat us all. :laf: :laf:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Plumbrich/BopeyeSemp.jpg)
now now fellers dont go throwin in the hat just yet ya'll aint even seen me eat yet I feel confident I could hold my own with em I have yet to meet a hotdog i didnt like :roflmao:
as for the ecallers I believe that one should definatly got for a youth prize for best hunting story with photos can be any kind of hunting just as long as there are photos to go along with it I would hope that this would lead to more of our young hunters getting more involved here on the board and getting out and hunting with Mom and Dad alot more as well. then we could have a predator/crow hunting competiton with scores for each animal even throw in varmints to boot give the prize for best score total of course we would vote on proper scoring system before the competiton started here on the forum to be fair and of course all entries would require photos with the F&F Logo and then of course put one up for sale on the F&F forum fund raiser page with all monies going to the F&f bank but thats just all I was thinking of
Quote from: pitw on December 11, 2008, 05:18:45 PM
Quote from: alscalls on December 11, 2008, 04:52:55 PM
When will we know more?
Probably when one of us get's it right :pout:
Yeah right now you guys no as much as I do.
The callers are ours, once every quarter during 2009, I'm just trying to come up with good ideas to hand them out to the members, and get FnF some promotion in the process, such as maybe some new youth members, etc.
I've gotten a few ideas off of whats been posted, I'd like ya's to keep hammering em in though. :wink:
I agree with one going to youth and one for the FNF bank. Don't know about the others.
How about a "Young Hunter" forum for kids only to post their stories in? :shrug:
This is going to be tougher then I thought. :confused:
I really like the ideas on a youth only contest, but how do I call it when so many of you brought it up?
Should we use the caller that was gonna be for the best idea here and use it for a youth contest? Especially since no one persons idea is going to cover the entire 4 caller give away?
And then have three other contests open to everyone for the other three?...like maybe numbers, or species, or weights, or stories, heck we could use any three of those. :wink:
As much as I like the idea of auctioning one of for the FnF Funds, I personally would rather give them away in the contests then I would give one to the highest bidder of an auction. I'd feel guilty collecting money for something that was givin to me. :shrug:
Quote from: FinsnFur on December 12, 2008, 07:52:31 PM
Should we use the caller that was gonna be for the best idea here and use it for a youth contest?
Absolutly !!!!
Numbers is good,not everyone has the thingy to weigh one in,I always love a good story,species :shrug:
Do you mean Coyote,crow,fox, What ya thinking here Jimbo
As long as a youth gets one..........I don't see anyone arguing with that at all. Hunting stories with pics are very popular, I think but you got the stats see what we like The best and have the contests according to our favorite subjects.
How about this Jim. Lets figure out what to do with the 1st one 1st. Once this is settled we can work on the 2nd one. And so on. It's good to throw out ideas enmasse but I think we can be more versatile by better coordination.
Now if there were to be one given to a Member here I would like to see the contest go like this.
Everybody that posts a picture of a called & shot predator gets 1 ticket in a hat. Only 1 ticket for each member. Not 1 for each kill. This will make it fair for the folks that can't hunt as much as others or are in areas with fewer coyotes.
The picture will have to have something drawn up nicely referring to the Western Rivers E-Call Giveaway thru FnF. Make it on the computer or have a child draw something on cardboard with markers. So long as WR & FnF gets the glory for all to see. Make it bold or colorful so it stands out.
This contest can begin on Dec xx since the only requirement would be that you are a participating member of the FnF board as of Dec xx. The contest can end on March xx,2009. That should give everybody ample time to get in a lot of quality stands before the end of the contest.
Just some thoughts I've been toying with on my end. HTH
I like your thinking. I'm just wondering how good I am with crayons, and then it makes me feel bad for Bill :roflmao:
Ok, that was uncalled for I know :laf:
:laf: We're all somewhat adults here so I think Bill will understand. :wink:
If not then Chris can explain it to him!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Hey Bill!! Hows ya doin?? :biggrin:
I like that last idea of hammers best. It evens the playing field for all, oldtimer and beginer alike. One entry perhunter and there must be a photo and story to go along. Gotta have entertainment for the masses ya know.
Two for youth hunters. Promoting the sport of hunting period will help keep some out of trouble in the future. Same deal as above. Story and photo.
Last one to th LBL hunt to help us promote the sport and the hunt. Its free and it is given away free to the drawn name of one of the participants at t LBL. Just my thoughts on it. Jimmie
Don't worry about Bill Chris will get his crayons sharp and will draw Nothing :roflmao: no splaning needed
Hamer I like your Idea Thats about as fair as it gets
So you get to show as many pics as you want but your name is in the hat once,cool deal
Glen,
I like your idea, but I do have one question. Do you think the new cat that has come to visit around my house would count?
Jim,
Despite what everyone else says, I think you are a stand up kind of guy for not wanting to use one for the bank.
Jerry
I like Hammer's and Jimmie in KY's ideas. Those seem like they'd get the most participation and be the most fair to all. IMHO.
QuoteGlen,
I like your idea, but I do have one question. Do you think the new cat that has come to visit around my house would count?
Thanks Jerry. And Bill,Jimmie,& Jim. And Semp. :biggrin:
I think the cat could apply BUT,,,, I would have to hide the entry from Diane. You would have to prove depradation to anything on your property.
No decoys would be allowed to be seen in the picture. :doh2: Disregard that one. :innocentwhistle: :laf: :laf:
Jerry-- Did you hear there were 2 dead Bobcats found along the highways in I believe SE Ohio?? I forget how many sightings are being reported each year now but in the next 10 years we might get a draw for them in certain areas if we are lucky!!
Ok, well unless more folks log on and object or have other concerns with it, lets run with that for the first one HaMeR.
NOW, the big question. :eyebrow: Are you interested in heading this one up? :biggrin:
With my hosting stuff, maintaining the other sites, and currently building two others for clients, I don't know that I can devote the time needed to draft up a set of guidelines, lay it all out, launch it, and look over it all as it plays out.
Don't feel like you have too. I'm not dumping it on ya. I just thought I'd ask since you had a good head start already, thinking through some of the details, what not. :wink: and you could even line up a posse staff to help ya out and work with.
I'll still always be available, just restricted on time.
I'll give it a go Jim. I don't know how well it'll end up but I know I can count on the good folks here to help me with this one.
Glen I have faith in ya You can do it :yoyo:
Quote from: HaMeR on December 13, 2008, 12:11:56 PM
I'll give it a go Jim. I don't know how well it'll end up but I know I can count on the good folks here to help me with this one.
Anyone who can build a pen as awesome as you could do this in there sleep :sleep:. If I can help you in anyway let me know and if I'm able to I will.
sounds like a winner to me too if theres any way I can help out let me know always glad to lend a hand :eyebrow:
Thanks for the votes of confidence fellow FnF'ers!! I'll try to not let you all down. :yoyo:
Sounds great........Holler if ya need me. :wink:
I've enlisted 2 people to help me out with this. That should make things go off without a hitch.
Thanks Al for the offer!! :yoyo:
Thansk for the nice words on the pen & pencil Barry. I hope you enjoy them & I'm here if you ever have any trouble with it!! :wink:
Thanks for the offer Charles!! :yoyo:
I hope to have this up & running ASAP. Stay tuned for details. :biggrin: