Well all the circuit teams have come back together for the final event in the Campbell Campbell Cameras Professional Video circuit. Teams will be filming archery whitetail hunts at Campbell Illinois Whitetails in southern Illinois. Audio Technica is the naming rights sponsor for this event. In addition to the circuit championship where teams are competing for over $100,000 in cash and prizes, HSO will have a 3D pop up tournament going on all week-end. Prizes for this years circuit include a brand new special edition realtree John Deere Gator and a 27 ft enclosed Campbell trailer with a complete Motion target 3D shooting system. Teams are set to get into the field, here is the line up:
Team Ranger Joes: David and Tina Peavey and Big Kelly
Team One Brick Shy: Ernie Wojtysiak and Brian Krumwiede
Team Rivers Edge: Larry Sims and Brian Ball
Team Mill Creek: Terry and Julie Fitzgerald
Team Almost Heaven: Dennis Johnson and Chris Clerk
Team Kluckys Outdoor Adventures: John Klucky and Tom Bibeau
Team Tompkins: Steve Boullion and Bill Harrington
Bowhunting.com's Team Farm Credit: Justin Zarr and Mike Willand
Team American Bowhunters: Kurt Wahl and Laura Santucci
Team Rascal: Spencer Brown and John Gilmer
Excaliber's Team Perry County: Robert Skinner and Tony Thomas
Team Red White Blue: Stewart West and Byron Tabor
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Four teams were successful today filming doe hunts: American Bowhunters, One Brick Shy, Rivers Edge and Farm Credit. Lots of bucks are being seen as well and a cool down is in the forcast for Friday!!
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Team Klucky came in with a filmed doe hunt today and we had a few close encounters with some really nice bucks by several of the teams. On another note the doe hunt that was submitted by Rivers Edge yesterday was the highest scoring videod whitetail doe hunt on record for the Campbell Outdoor Challenge. Great video and the doe weighed a massive 170 lbs!!
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Another awesome day in the woods. Team Farm Credit filmed a nice 10 point buck hunt, Team Almost Heaven, One Brick Shy, Rascal, and Perry County. Teams are seeing some awesome deer and the chase phase has kicked into high gear here in southern Illinois.
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Weather is really good right now and most teams have been seeing chasing going on but nothing has been brought in yet. Only 1 day left and it's still wide open for all the teams.
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On the last evening Kluckys came in with a 2nd filmed doe hunt. This put some pressure on the other teams going into the last morning.
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The last morning two other teams submitted 2nd filmed doe hunts, making this a very close challenge and an even closer circuit championship. Team Rascal and Almost Heaven made it happen the last half day of the event.
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This was our absolute best challenge season ever and the most intense race for the circuit championship. Congratulations to our champions, Bowhunting.coms Team Farm Credit who not only won the whitetail championship but also took the victory of the 2008 Campbellcameras.com challenge circuit!! Team Farm Credit took home over $40,000 in cash and prizes over the course of the circuit this year! Special thanks to Karen Demaris of the Hunting Simulation Organization (HSO) for hosting a 3D pop up invitational shoot to coinside with the finale of the 08 circuit. Thanks to Steve from Code Blue for offering his products to the challenge teams and putting on a seminar for the teams. Lastly, thanks to all of our incentive providers, offering cash incentives to the winning team if they used their products, (Tinks, Windevice, Montana Decoys, AudioTechnica, Muddy Outdoors, and Hunter Safety Systems). Looking forward to next year already!!
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Special thanks to all our circuit teams. This has been a long rewarding year and we couldn't be happier with the calliber of teams we have in the circuit. All 10 teams in the circuit have rights back into next year and the remaining 5 spots are available to the top three teams in the qualifier, leaving two spots open for anyone wishing to compete next year. Top prize for the circuit 2009 is a 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 pickup (Official truck of the Campbell Outdoor Challenge)
