Kali Parmley

Kali Parmley is the Editor-in-Chief of GUN DOG magazine and Backcountry Hunter magazine. Growing up in rural Ohio, Kali was an avid outdoor enthusiast, but it was a run-and-gun turkey hunt that would help her find her passion for hunting. In her early 20s, she furthered her love of the outdoors and began her hunting career, serving as the Managing Editor for Petersen’s Hunting magazine. Kali has become an avid big game and bird hunter, focusing on do-it-yourself hunts on public land. After training her own Labrador Retriever, Lincoln, and Setter, Jones, to hunt birds alongside her, Kali now travels across the United States doing what she loves: chasing wild animals in wild places.

Kevin Steele

Kevin Steele is the publisher of Petersen’s HUNTING and the producer of Petersen’s Hunting Adventures. He is also the publisher and editor emeritus of Guns & Ammo. A veteran of the shooting, hunting and outdoor industry for more than forty years, Steele has written hundreds of articles on firearms, shooting and hunting.

He began his hunting career nearly a half-century ago atop his father’s shoulders as they ran beagle hounds on cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares. In the course of his career, Steele has hunted on four continents, including twenty-eight African safaris, and has taken more than seventy big game species.

David Draper

An avid hunter and accomplished writer, David Draper has traveled the globe in search of good stories and good food, yet his roots remain firmly planted in the soil of his family’s farm on the High Plains of Nebraska. As a young man, his dreams were fueled by daily trips to the original Cabela’s retail store, which stood a short four blocks from his childhood home. The ensuing years spent chasing his passion for adventure and the outdoors have taken him from the shores of Africa’s Gambia River to Alaska’s Brooks Range. He has hunted birds and big-game on five of the seven continents.

A 25-year industry veteran, Draper has worked in communications, writing and editing roles for the biggest names in the industry. In addition to bylines in scores of publications, he also served as the editor for the hunting journals of Dick and Mary Cabela and contributed to several books on the outdoors. Draper is Editor in Chief of Petersen’s Hunting magazine.”

Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen grew up in Iowa and currently lives in Minnesota with his wife of 22 years, along with their 17-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter—each are accomplished turkey hunters in their own right. While the outdoor lifestyle is all-encompassing, spring turkey hunting is a passion the family collectively shares. Allen has harvested well over 100 birds between 15 states with an ultimate goal to take one in all 49 states, complete with a full World Slam—he currently has three of the North American subspecies—still chasing the elusive Osceola. Even if those dreams never come to fruition, Allen is completely satisfied sharing the spring turkey woods with his family and friends.