Middle Creek Game Show

[achaundy]

I see the Pa Game Commision has a Show tomorrow and Sunday... at the Middle Creek Wildlife Area. Does anyone know what all they show, is it worth the trip? Skip

[Claude]

Here's the news announcement of it:

"Also on Sept. 20-21, the Game Commission’s Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area will host the 22nd Annual Middle Creek Wildfowl Show. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the Visitor Center, which is along Hopeland Road, two miles south of Kleinfeltersville, on the Lebanon-Lancaster county line.

Admission is free, but donations are graciously accepted and will benefit the Wildlands Preservation Fund, which has helped to preserve more than 46,000 acres in an 18-county area in eastern Pennsylvania, including more than 1,200 acres at Middle Creek.

The show features wildfowl carvings and carving supplies, artwork, collectibles, dog training supplies and hunting items from more than 60 vendors. Retriever demonstrations will be at 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday, Sept. 20, and at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21. Two different retriever clubs will display their dogs' abilities, both with water retrievals and upland retrievals. Demonstrations on Saturday will be performed by the Keystone Retriever Club, and on Sunday, by the Northern Piedmont Retriever Club.

Decoy competitions will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and winners will be announced at 4 p.m. Carvers may enter their creations into different categories to include decorative, working and shorebird gunning rigs. Each year, a different duck is chosen for the decorative competition. This year, the mallard was selected.

Pennsylvania State Duck and Goose Calling Championships will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The winner of the duck calling competition will likely go to the world duck calling championship in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and the winner of the goose calling competition will likely go to the world goose calling championship in Easton, Maryland."

Claude