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Predator Hunters: Hosts  Pat Cameron is a well-known and widely respected outdoorsman and predator hunter. Pat’s knowledge of precision varmint rifles
is rivalled by few in North America. Thirty years of predator hunting
experience can be obtained in only one way, in the field. Pat utilizes his
knowledge of precision rifles and predator hunting experience to elevate to
sport of winter predator hunting to an art form. Pat is at home in a wind
swept winter landscape as you are in your living room. Published author,
Benchrest competitor, Predator hunter. Pat’s zest for life and winter
predator hunting is contagious. Pat shot his first fox on February 28th 1974.
Thirty years later he is still pursuing predators with the same excitement and
enthusiasm as that frozen February morning so many years ago. John Summerfield is an avid outdoorsman and keen predator hunter who enjoys shooting predators with a video camera almost as much as with his custom Tactical .20 He hosted the television programs "Outdoor Sportsman" and "The Great Outdoorsman", seen across Canada and the U.S. on OLN; Outdoor Life Network, for eight years. This experience in the broadcast television industry has given him an unequalled knowledge of video production and technical excellence. Although an enthusiatic deer hunter with bow and rifle, John's true passion is predator hunting. He is a skilled predator caller, and during the winter months can be found plying the snowbound countryside for coyotes and foxes.Together, John & Pat make a potent team against the predators they hunt. A typical winter's day can find them pursuing coyote and fox using two distinct hunting techniques; calling and spot & stalk. Since they live in the East, calling can be challenging, particularly for coyotes. Eastern coyotes are quite reluctant to leave the security of the woods to cross fields looking for a supposed wounded prey animal. But, it does happen with occasional regularity. Red fox are more apt to approach a calling stand as they are far less shy than coyotes for some reason. The key is to hunt predators with the call by positioning the downwind area (where your scent will blow) into an open area adjacent to the cover so the coyote or fox must expose themselves as they try to reach the downwind position. Easily as productive as predator calling in the East, is the spot & stalk method of hunting. This simply entails covering country, constantly scounting the snow fields for predators. They may be sleeping in a field, on a fenceline or snowdrift, sitting or sleeping outside a fox or coyote den in late January or February, or they may be on the move; hunting along, mousing, eating a kill or just walking. You just keep your eyes open and when you spot a predator, put together a game plan on how to sneak up, cut him off or whatever it takes to place a bullet into him, putting a nice fox or coyote pelt on the fur stretcher. In general, becoming expert at these techniques, and skilled with a precision predator rifle is what has made John and Pat so successful at predator hunting the East. |