Alex Rutledge, a game caller from Birch Tree, Mo., will present a turkey calling seminar at Buchheits's of Jackson at 6 p.m. March 7.
Rutledge, who will be at the Jackson store from 5 to 9 p.m., has called many types of game animals, including turkey, deer and even predators.
Rutledge won his first major title in 1986, when he won the National Amateur Turkey Calling contest in Yellville, Ark.
In the same year, he was named Missouri State Turkey Calling Champion. Other major turkey calling wins for Rutledge, included the Grand National Gobbling championship Atlanta, Ga., South Central Missouri Ozark Turkey calling championship, and the Southwest Open Calling Championship, held in Little Rock, Ark.
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