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DAVE HENDERSON
RESIDES:
202 Prospect Street, Endicott, NY 13760
BORN:
1949 in Johnson City, NY.
FAMILY:
Wife, Debbie, an award-winning elementary school teacher.
Daughter Dawn, an engineer, lives in San Jose, California.
EDUCATION:
Graduated Vestal (NY) High School 1967; attended
Rider College, Trenton, NJ for one year (1969); graduated
Pennsylvania Institute of Taxidermy (1985); American Gunsmithing
Institute correspondence course, 2004.
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY: Journalist since 1967. After nearly 20 years
as full-time newspaper writer-editor-columnist, went free
lance to newspapers and magazines in 1986. More than 6,500
newspaper and 1,300 magazine pieces published on hunting and
shooting. Seminars on slug shooting and various other aspects
of shotgun sports at shows and NRA Great American Hunters
Tour.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Expert witness in legal cases involving firearms and hunting. Former professional hunting guide (elk, bear, deer) in Idaho
1990-1997; amateur gunsmith, golf club builder, video host-producer,
award-winning taxidermist.
Also worked in regional and national television and radio.
Appears regularly on Outdoors Channel cable hunting shows.
PROFESSIONAL
POSITIONS: Three-term president of American Association
of Shooting Sports Writers; served as press officer at Wolf
Creek Venue for shotgun competition at 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Member, 2008 Gander Mountain National Pro Staff
Columnist/Field Editor:
Buckmasters Whitetail Magazine, GunHunter, Gun Tests; North American Bear Hunter; member Shooting Advisory Staff of North American Hunter. Former positions:
Field editor-columnist for Canadian Hunting & Shooting,
Beards & Spurs Magazine, Whitetail Business, Predator Xtreme, NY Sportsman
and Northeast Outdoors; Technical Editor for Whitetail Slug
Hunter, Performance Shooting and Guns-Gear-Game; Managing
Editor of NY Outdoor Times, NY DeerHunter and Whitetail News.
Also former outdoors columnist for United Press International and Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette.
Contributed
to:
Outdoor Life, American Hunter, American Rifleman, Buckmasters,
Petersen's Hunting, North American Hunter, Deer & Deer
Hunting, Turkey & Turkey Hunting, Turkey Call, Guns&Gear,
GunHunter, Guns & Ammo, NRA Shooting Illustrated, Whitetails
Unlimited, Rack, Bass Pro Outdoor World, Realtree Outdoors,
Remington Country, Mossy Oak Hunting the Country, (Harris)
Waterfowler, (Harris) Deer & Big Game Rifles, Nikon Outdoors
Annual (Harris), Shooters' Bible, Texas Hunting Directory,
Maryland Deer Hunting Annual, Gun Tests, Ontario Out-of-Doors,
Whitetail Fanatic, Blackpowder Hunting Annual, Predator
Xtreme, Canadian Hunting & Shooting, Beards & Spurs
Magazine, Southern Outdoors, Whitetail Business, NY Sportsman,
NY Game & Fish, Pennsylvania Sportsman, Michigan Outdoors,
Ohio Outdoors, Northeast Outdoors; Whitetail Slug Hunter,
Whitetail Shotgunner, Performance Shooting, Guns-Gear-Game,
NY Outdoor Times, NY DeerHunter, Whitetail Journal, Predator
Xtreme
Currently:
Outdoors columnist for Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton,
NY), Ithaca (NY) Journal
BOOKS,
AUTHORED
White Tales: A Modern Look at Deer Hunting (Outdoors Today
Publications, 1996)
The Ultimate Guide to Shotgunning (Lyons Press, 2003)
Shotgunning for Deer (Stoeger Publishing, 2004)
Gunsmithing Shotguns (Lyons Press, 2004)
Modern Shotgunning (Stoeger Publishing, 2006)
BOOKS,
CONTRIBUTOR
Complete Book of Whitetail Hunting (Stoeger Publishing, 2000)
Hunting Record-Book Bucks (Creative Publishing, 2002)
Hunting Trophy Deer (Lyons Press, 2002)
Gun Digest Book of Deer Guns (Krause Publishing, 2004)
Shooter's Bible (Stoeger Publishing, 1999, 2005, 2006)
HONORS
Four national awards for writing and radio; 15 regional (NY
and PA) awards for writing, photography and television. Rifle
champion of 1996 Buckmasters National Deer Classic.
MISCELLANEOUS
Hunted 29 states and 10 Canadian provinces; Has taken more
than 100 whitetails with shotguns. |
