Hunting Matters

Brandon Maddox, CEO and owner of Silencer Central, is recognized as a national thought leader on Class 3 firearms. What began as Maddox’s home-based Federal Firearms License (FFL) evolved into a Class 3 Dealership and has grown into the nationwide brand it is today. Maddox’s NFA expertise makes him a popular voice for the industry, and he speaks regularly at National Compliance Conferences. He recently joined the board of directors for Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, working to protect and advocate for the hunting and shooting industry.

Before his work with Silencer Central, Maddox practiced pharmacy and served as a marketing executive in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and holds a master’s in business administration (MBA) from Duke University. Megan, Maddox’s wife, is a 5th generation South Dakotan, and together they have two daughters. Maddox is passionate about varmint hunting and has spent more than a decade honing his expertise in the Western Dakota prairies.

Brian Anderson aka “The Tick Terminator” has had a lifelong fascination with the little blood suckers we call the “tick.” His interest peaked about 10 years ago due to his wife’s continued fear of them and with several friends suffering from Lyme Disease. This began the intense search for preventative ways to keep the ticks off from us. He has spent countless hours investigating, studying, experimenting, and loves to share his findings with audiences across the country.

He is now on a God given mission as a one of a kind “Tick and Lyme Disease Prevention Specialist.” This makes him a consultant, a conference speaker, author, and a provider of unique and cost-effective repellants. His enthusiasm and humor have landed him on several outdoor TV shows, radio shows, and podcasts during the last few years. He has also created a very unique and informative website with tips to help protect outdoor workers, hunters, hikers, backpackers, campers, and anyone else who goes outside at www.thetickterminator.com He lives with his wife in the Iron Mountain, MI area and they have two grown children and four grandchildren.

Dan Schultz is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Cuddeback. Prior to being at Cuddeback, Dan worked for WildComm as Vice President of Sales selling sponsorships for some of the larger hunting television shows including Crush with Lee & Tiffany, Whitetail Freaks, Hunt Masters, and others. Dan lives in Wisconsin and loves to hunt and fish.

Mark Olis is the Content Marketing Manager for Moultrie Mobile.

Mark grew up in the deep South hunting small game before eventually advancing to chasing deer and turkeys throughout the hills, hollows, and swamps of Alabama. After graduating from Auburn University with a degree in Journalism, he spent the next thirteen years in the outdoor industry working as an editor on numerous outdoor hunting titles (Whitetail Journal, Predator Xtreme, Southern Sporting Journal, Bowhunting World and more).

Mark is also a trail-camera enthusiast and has spent the past five years working in the marketing department for Moultrie Mobile. Mark enjoys spending time outdoors with his children hunting, foraging, and cooking all of the wonderful wild food.

Having spent 33 years as a game warden for Texas Parks and Wildlife, Danny has had the opportunity to serve Texans. Conservation of our natural resources has been his focus both professionally and personally. He and his wife Elaine have raised four daughters and one son.

Danny had the privilege throughout his career to hold many positions within the Law Enforcement division. He began his career in 1986 as a field game warden in Port Isabel and completed the final leg as Lieutenant Colonel (Director of Field Operations). Along the way he held the positions of lieutenant, captain and major. Danny spent five years as the director of training at the Game Warden Training Center.

He has invested the last decade of his career involved in conservation issues at the state and national level. He helped create a National Leadership Academy for conservation law enforcement professionals, held annually in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The curriculum that was developed challenges students to face the realities of resource management, exploitation of our natural resources and building impactful relationships with all our stakeholders.

Danny wants to become a catalyst for engaging Texans to intentionally help game wardens stop those individuals and groups who are stealing our resources. He believes that each and every species is irreplaceable and exists for our spirit and harmony of our world.

Kevin Ormston has been a member and active volunteer of HSC since 2008, and a Life Member in 2012. He has served on the HSC Board from 2011-2015, was 2015 Convention Chairman “Where the Wild Things Are”, he was on the HSC Finance Committee from 2011 to 2016, Membership Chairman from 2011 to 2014, Membership Committee member from 2009 to 2010, HSC Silent Auction Committee member in 2012 and Shoot For The Troops Committee member in 2012 and 2013. Kevin served as President of Houston Safari Club in 2016. After his president year, Kevin has stayed engaged with the club by regularly attending Board meetings and volunteering as the Convention Raffle Chairman for the last 5 years.

In addition, Kevin has supported the Club with sponsorships over the years for HSC’s Hunting Awards Program, HSC’s Sporting Clays Tournament and he has supported the Gazelles Luncheon with most recently a Gold Sponsorship and several Silver Sponsorships since 2013.

Kevin’s love for hunting and the outdoors started when he was 8 years old and he fully supports HSC’s mission in conservation, education, and hunters’ rights. He is in the construction industry and owns Rummel Creek Builders and Rummel Creek Pools. He has been happily married to Cheryl for almost 20 years and has two daughters Kayla and Kendall…all HSC members.

This week Joe and Ramon discuss the best movies about hunting and fishing. Also they discuss which movies are on repeat while in camp.

Nick Skally- Vice President of Marketing and E-Commerce

FORLOH, a new premium, technical hunting, fishing, and outdoor apparel brand with apparel that is 100% made in the U.S.A. FORLOH, in its 3rd year of business, has two flagship stores in Whitefish, Montana, and Austin, Texas.

Edward J. Hudson has traveled the world since childhood and recently decided to combine his love of nature, hunting, and international travel. During his childhood, Ed remembers stories of how there used to be more deer, more sheep, and more game. He grew tired of these stories and became an avid wildlife conservationist because of stories from the past like these. Since 2017, Ed has hunted the rainforest and savanna of Cameroon, the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, the Hindu-Kush and Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan, the Altai and Hangai Mountains of Mongolia, the Zambezi escarpment of Zimbabwe, the Austrian Alps and even the Danube Valley of Hungary.

Ed’s passion for conservation drove him to educate others in the creation of Wild Strongholds, a film production company geared to entertain and educate the public about conservation efforts around the world. Wild Strongholds offers a unique perspective on the conservation efforts involving local communities, hunting companies, biologists, professional hunters, and governments around the world. The majority of hunters are misinterpreted and portrayed poorly by a very loud, vocal, and small subset of the world’s population. People in this world tend to listen to the loudest voices and it’s hard to ignore someone that’s screaming in your face. Ed's mission is to sway public opinion and portray what beneficial impact hunting has on game around the world. It’s his hope that one day, there will be more snow leopards, more brown bears, more lynx, ibex, and sheep so that, one day when his daughter, asks him “Daddy is this how it used to be?” He can reply “No. it’s not. It’s much better now.”

Jens Krogh is the Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Walther Arms Inc. in the US. He has been an avid hunter and shooter since his early childhood. Growing up in Georgia, he mostly bird hunted and shot sporting clays. He did not start hunting white-tailed deer and other larger game until he went to college.

Jens has now worked in the firearms industry for fifteen years, working for several well-known manufacturers before landing at Walther Arms a little over three years ago. Jens is passionate about Second Amendment rights and hunters’ rights as well as passing both along to the next generation.