Tom Bechdel

Pennsylvania native, Tom Bechdel, has been hunting for 40 plus years and trapping nearly 50 years. The last twenty years, he has been giving seminars on hunting, which include deer hunting with both gun and bow, deer calling, proper usage of deer scents, and the use of deer decoys. He also does seminars for spring and fall turkey hunting. These seminars cover locating turkey, spring and fall, use of decoys and calls. Within the last 10 years, he has become a predator hunter in earnest. He had fox and coon called earlier in his hunting career; mainly Eastern coyote hunting in the last 8 years. He has a very high success rate of harvest of the Eastern coyote. During the last 3 years, he has harvested 257 coyotes in PA. The largest was 72 pounds.  He covers all 12 months of the coyote s life, what he does, how he does it and why.  He explains the different color phases of the Eastern coyote as compared with a Western coyote. Tom Bechdel has done seminars for, or been a hunting advisor for, the following companies: Knight & Hale; Johnny Stewart Wildlife Calls; Flambeau Products Corp.; Hunter Specialties; Wildlife Research Center; Nightlite Corp.; Lohman Game Calls; Gadget Grabbers Outdoors ^TM; and Horton Crossbows.