Hunting Matters

Larry McCoy is the Marketing & Media Director, for The Outdoor Group. Larry had a passion for the outdoors at an early age and cut his teeth in the industry behind the lens of a camera. His passion drove him to want to work even deeper within the outdoor space. He is currently the host of Respect The Game TV on Sportsman Channel. The Outdoor Group specializes in the development and manufacturing of premium quality archery and hunting equipment for the outdoor space.

Established in 2012, The Outdoor Group is the parent company of Elite Archery, Scott Releases, Custom Bow Equipment, Duel Game Calls, Winners Choice Bowstrings, Slick Trick Broadheads, Solid Broadheads, Clutch Outdoors and Perfect Form Manufacturing.

Tim Richardson is a Washington, DC-based public affairs, media, and fundraising consultant. Tim has been Government Affairs Director for Wildlife Forever since 1995. Prior to that, he worked for Texas’ U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in Washington and was a political journalist in Austin during the 1980s.

Tim is rural Michigan native who moved to Texas in 1979. After a decade in Texas journalism and two years on Capitol Hill, Richardson became the nation’s only private consultant to work on Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon restoration for grant applicants. Clients in Alaska and Texas have received over $500 million in oil spill funds for projects involving public and private stakeholders, partners, and natural resource agencies. In addition to oil spill restoration Tim has worked on myriad state and federal government affairs issues for over thirty years.

Jason Wilson has been in the optics game for nearly 25 years. As a fifth generation Wyoming kid, a competitive shooter, Professional Ballistician, with a head full of ideas, an engineering mind, made dangerous with a graphic design/marketing degree. Jason opened the doors on Lucid Optics in 2009 with a single item and focus.

Jason wanted to offer the absolute best quality in product at a price point everyone could afford. Lucid optics is proud to be different in the market today growing with new items and gaining a very loyal cult following.

QuietKat was founded in 2012 by twin brothers Jake & Justin Roach in Eagle, Colorado with a mission to design a better way to access the backcountry for hunters and anglers while replacing traditional ATVs and combustion-powered vehicles that were prohibited, too noisy, or simply didn't fit on narrow trails. Ten years later and QuietKat is proud to have joined the Vista Outdoor family of powerhouse brands including CampChef, CamelBak, Bushnell, Bell, Giro, Fox, Simms and more!

A lifelong hunter and shooter, Joel Hodgdon serves as Remington Ammunition’s Marketing Director. With previous experience at Federal Ammunition as well as the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, Joel started work in the hunting and shooting world with his family at Hodgdon Powder Company.

Helping lead the charge to revitalize Big Green’s Ammunition factory in Lonoke, Arkansas, Joel, his wife Kelsey, and faithful bird dog Leo live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Joel is a life member and supporter of multiple conservation and firearms rights organizations.

Hunting Matters Co-Hosts Joe and Ramon discuss the upcoming 2023 Houston Safari Club Worldwide Hunting Expo & Convention. Ramon gets a crash course in what it takes to put on the annual HSCF convention and what to expect this year. The 2023 Houston Safari Club Worldwide Hunting Expo & Convention runs January 20-22 and is open to the public. Expo tickets available at the door.

Banquet tickets may be purchased in advance at https://hscf.memberclicks.net/2023banquetregistration#!/.

A 3-day expo featuring hunting & fishing outfitters from around the world, gear, apparel, firearms, optics, taxidermy, artwork, jewelry, raffles and more. And featuring three banquets, raffles, silent auctions, live auctions & more. For more information: https://hscfdn.org/convention/attendees/.

Will Coggin is managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, which fights radical animal rights, environmental, and other activists who lobby to take choices away from Americans. The Center operates HumaneWatch, a campaign to expose animal rights activists and educate the public about their agenda.

Tony A. Schoonen is the Chief Executive Officer of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Tony was born and raised in Butte, Montana. He grew up working on the Big Hole river for his father’s guide service, first shuttling vehicles and later as a river guide, putting himself through college. He and a couple of buddies started a production company, Stoney-Wolf Productions, and produced the first ever video on elk hunting. The company expanded rapidly, eventually producing 2,000 programs filmed on five continents. The subject matter ranged from hunting and angling to documentaries and youth education.

Tony later worked with The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, developing a corporate partners program and eventually becoming the Vice President of Marketing and Communications. In 2004, several of Tony’s friends on the Board of Directors for Wonders of Wildlife, including John L. Morris, asked Tony to move to Springfield and help out with the museum and aquarium. Tony had a passion for Wonders of Wildlife since it was built in 2001, telling the story of conservation, providing a historical home for the American hunter and angler, and engaging and educating young people in and about the great outdoors. Tony served as Executive Director of the museum until he transitioned to the Boone and Crockett Club where he served as Chief of Staff and later the Chief Executive Officer.
The Boone and Crockett Club is the nation’s oldest conservation organization. Founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, the Boone and Crockett Club helped to establish the principles of wildlife and habitat conservation, hunter ethics, as well as many of the institutions, expert agencies, science, and funding mechanisms for conservation. Its contributions include enlarging and protecting Yellowstone, and establishing Glacier and Denali national parks, founding the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and National Wildlife Refuge System, the Pittman-Robertson and Lacey Acts, creating the Federal Duck Stamp program, and developing the framework for modern game laws.

Tony and his wife Jennifer are the proud parents of two girls. Tony hunts and fishes as much as time allows and includes his family whenever possible. All enjoy the great outdoors and share the same passion for wildlife and wild places.

Annie Farrell is a District Biologist for the National Wild Turkey Federation. NWTF is a conservation non-profit dedicated to the conservation of the wild turkey and preservation of our hunting heritage. Farrell has been with NWTF since 2017 and oversees conservation program delivery in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

Prior to her career with NWTF, she worked various technician jobs with universities and consulting firms in Georgia, Wyoming, and Louisiana. She was born and raised in Georgia and received degrees from University of Georgia (B.S.F.R.) and Mississippi State University (M.S.) where she studied wild turkeys. She currently lives in East Texas with her husband, Chris, twin one-year old daughters, and yellow lab, Otter.

Mark Hennelly, Vice President of Advocacy for the California Waterfowl Association.
Mark is a registered lobbyist and works primarily on legislative and regulatory issues that impact waterfowl, wetlands and hunting, including work before the State Legislature and California Fish and Game Commission. He has sponsored and helped pass several state laws and regulations affecting gamebird seasons and bag limits, water supplies for refuges and wildlife areas, hunting opportunity on private lands and the use of hunter-generated funds for game conservation purposes. Mr. Hennelly has also worked for the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance as its Vice President, the State Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee as an Associate Consultant and the Department of Fish and Wildlife as a Scientific Aide. He recently served as a panelist for Governor Newsom’s Advancing 30x30 initiative and is a fellow of the National Conservation Leadership Institute.

Mr. Hennelly is an avid gamebird hunter and spends much of his free time in the fall and winter hunting with his family and friends.