Thank you for making the 2025 NWTF Convention and Sport Show a success! We look forward to seeing you next year! (details forthcoming)

The National Wild Turkey Federation Convention and Sport Show is a celebration of a year of successes in delivering on the mission and bringing people together through the life-changing power of the outdoors. And, this year was bigger than the last with new events and chances to win, a bigger Sport Show with more vendors and experiences, and more ways to honor and celebrate NWTF volunteers leading the way in their communities! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Relive the 2025 Convention in Photos

Dates for the 2026 Convention and Sport Show:
Feb. 12-14, 2026

Convention and Sport Show Schedule

Plan your 2026 Convention and Sport Show experience ahead of time by learning the dates and times of your favorite events, seminar, auctions and more!

Our first convention event starts Wednesday, Feb. 11, and the last event is tentatively set for Sunday, Feb. 15 (worship service). The exhibit hall is open Thursday, Feb. 12 — Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026.

View the Sport Show and Exhibitor Map (Coming Soon)

Book a Room

The convention is inside the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. We highly recommend staying at Gaylord Opryland hotel so you will have everything you need under one roof. We usually sell out of rooms, so we encourage you to book early.

Our first 2026 convention event starts Wednesday, Feb. 11, and the last event is tentatively set for Sunday, Feb. 15 (worship service). The exhibit hall is open Thursday, Feb. 12 – Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026.

Gaylord Opryland Reservations

• Book Your Room

  To receive room-block pricing, please complete your reservation on or before Wednesday, December 31, 2025.

 

2026 Convention Overflow Hotels

• Coming Soon

Exhibitor Information

Be one of the companies to showcase your products and services in our 90,000 square feet of exhibiting space during one of the biggest shows in Nashville, TN. Promote your business to more than 55,000 individuals who attend the weekend’s festivities. Our available booth spaces disappear as quickly as those free promotional items you hand out.

Grand National Competitions

Test your calling, callmaking and taxidermy skills against some of the best competitors in the nation right here at the NWTF Convention and Sport Show. Contests are open to entry level and advanced individuals. This is your chance to support the NWTF and gain national recognition by competing in exciting and challenging categories and divisions. Showcase your talents and compete to receive trophies, medallions, ribbons, cash prizes and championship rings.

NWTF Grand National Calling Championships

Callers of all ages compete for more than $25,000 in cash and prizes in eight divisions. Competitions are held in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. The best callers in the world use natural voices, latex mouth calls, pot and peg friction calls, box calls, owl hooting tubes and more to yelp, cluck, putt, gobble and hoot their way to the top spot on stage.

Adult competitions are sponsored by: Primos and TETRA
Youth competitions are sponsored by: Mossy Oak

Register for GNCC Here

2025 Tentative Schedule of Events:

• Thursday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: GNCC Team Air and Friction Challenge
• Thursday, 3 – 7 p.m.: GNCC Friction Preliminaries
• Friday, 7:30 – 10 a.m.: GNCC Gobbling and Owl Hooting Championships
• Friday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m: GNCC Senior Preliminaries
• Friday, 4 – 7 p.m.: GNCC Poults, Juniors and Intermediate Championships
• Friday, 4 – 5 p.m. Hall of Fame Meet and Greet (Near Exhibit Hall Entrance)
• Saturday, 8 – 11 a.m.: GNCC Friction Finals
• Saturday, Noon – 3 p.m.: GNCC Senior Finals
• Saturday, 4 – 5 p.m.: GNCC Hall of Fame Inductions

2025 Winners
GNCC Gobbling Championship
Sponsored by: Primos and TETRA

Winner: Russel Andrews, Tuscaloosa, AL 242
1st Runner up: Joe Slaton, Linden, CA 241
2nd Runner up: Wayne Dozier, Dickinson, AL 240.5 (call off 243)
3rd Runner up: Kerry Elliot, Paris, KY 240.5 (call off 241.5)
4th Runner up: Brett Ladeau, Hartland, VT 238.5

GNCC Owl Championship
Sponsored by: Primos and TETRA

Winner: Matthew Presley, Front Royal, VA 243.5
1st Runner up: Dustin Fashing, Centralia, MO 240.5
2nd Runner up: Hudson McGarity, Hartwell, GA 239
3rd Runner up: Kaleb Payton, Central City, KY 238.5 (call off 240)
4th Runner up: Tyler Presley, Front Royal, VA 238.5 (call off 239)

GNCC Team Air & Friction Challenge
Sponsored by: Primos and TETRA

Winner: Tyler Presley and Matthew Presley, 566
1st Runner up: Dave Owens and Zach Conaway, 561
2nd Runner up: Bo Bartlebaugh and Matt Van Cise, 558.5
3rd Runner up: Richard Gunn and Wayne Dozier, 555.5
4th Runner up: Bruce Saale and Coedy Gipson, 552.5

GNCC Friction Championship
Sponsored by: Primos and TETRA

Winner: Dustin Jones, Beaver, OH (466.5 – call off, 463.5)
1st Runner up: Zach Conaway, Guyton, GA (466.5 – call off, 460)
2nd Runner up: Jason Conrad, Union, MS (466)
3rd Runner up: Michael Strawn, Aliceville, AL (465.5)
4th Runner up: Matt Van Cise, Brookville, PA (465 – call off, 466)

GNCC Senior Division Championship
Sponsored by: Primos and TETRA

Winner: Dave Owens, Cedartown, GA (578.5)
1st Runner up: Matt Van Cise, Brookville, PA (569.5)
2nd Runner up: Hunter Wallis, Greenfield Township, PA (569)
3rd Runner up: Tyler Presley, Front Royal, VA (565.5)
4th Runner up: JR Lanham, Bunker, MO (556.5)

Youth Grand National Turkey Calling Championships
Sponsored by: Mossy Oak

GNCC Poult Division Championship (10 and under)

Winner: Levi Pruitt, Reidsville, NC (373.5)
1st Runner up: Rayce Lamb Sylvania, GA (373)
2nd Runner up: Ben Dozier, Dickinson, AL (363.5)
3rd Runner up: Jaxon Wale, Independence, LA (361)
4th Runner up: Sawyer Debord, Waleska, GA (359)

GNCC Junior Division Championship (11 to 15)

Winner: Bo Bartlebaugh Armagh, PA  (381)
1st Runner up: Hudson McGarity Hartwell, GA (372)
2nd Runner up: Aden Dively Duncansville, PA (365.5)
3rd Runner up: Gavin Bryan Ruffin, SC (364)
4th Runner up: Mason Johnston, Purlear, NC (360)

GNCC Intermediate Division Championship (16 to 20)

Winner: Ethan Jones Beaver, OH (370)
1st Runner up: Lane Cathey Birmingham, AL (368)
2nd Runner up: Gracie Herman, Wahoo, NE (365.5)
3rd Runner up: Isaac Willow, Richfield, PA (354.5)
4th Runner up: Jackson Kirker, Searcy, AR (354.5)

Taxidermy Competition

Gobblers strut, big chests and beards puff out, attracting attention. Spring hens nest hidden in shadow-casting edge cover. Predators attack the wild turkeys we love, engaged in dramatic duels. Walk through the Grand National Wild Turkey and White-Tailed Deer Taxidermy Competition display at the NWTF’s annual Convention and Sport Show, and you’ll experience unrivaled artistic renditions, crafty design elements and supreme efforts to re-create moments from times afield like you’ve never seen before. After all, wildlife taxidermy aims at putting a memory on the wall you can return to whenever you want, just by looking up there. – Steve Hickoff, “Mounting Talent,” Turkey Call

This annual taxidermy competition held at the NWTF Convention and Sport Show is sponsored by: HuntStand

Enter the competition today at taxidermy.nwtf.org/

2025 Winners

People’s Choice Award

Winner: Nick Walker

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Wild Turkey Master of Masters Division

Winner: Josh West

Wild Turkey Masters Division

Best of Show: Brett Miller
Best Standing: Brett Miller
Best Strutting: Russell Coble

Wild Turkey Professional Division

Best of Show: Dustin Vaine
Best Strutting: Brad Wirgau
Best Standing: Dustin Vaine

Wild Turkey Commercial Division

1st Place: Sean Wright

Wild Turkey Youth and Amateur Division

Winner: Natalie Coble

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White-tailed Deer Master of Masters Division

Winner: Butch Irwin

White-tailed Deer Masters Division

Best of Show: Rusty Ferguson
Best Open Mouth Deer: Rusty Ferguson

White-tailed Deer Professional Division

Best of Show: Dustin Vaine
Best Open Mouth Deer: Dustin Vaine

White-tailed Deer Commercial Division

Winner: Brendon Miller

White-tailed Deer Amateur and Youth Division

Youth: Eli Daniels
Amateur: James McCowan

Callmaking Competition

The NWTF’s Grand National Call making Competition is the premier competition of its kind in North America. A panel of experts in the fields of call making, calling and hunting evaluate entries and present more than 80 awards. A weekend filled with perpetuating the fine tradition of this folk art is celebrated by a competition, live auction and silent auction.

This annual competition held at the NWTF Convention and Sport Show is sponsored by: Redneck Blinds

The Custom Call are available at customcalls.nwtf.org.

Auctions

Convention is the best way to find one-of-a-kind NWTF merchandise, firearms, hunts, vacations and more! Begin bidding today to find those items you can’t live without, while supporting the mission of the NWTF!

Grand National Live and Virtual Auctions

Browse and bid on one-of-a-kind hunts and experiences. There is something for everyone in our Grand National Live and Silent Auction with more items being added daily. So, be sure to check back often.

2025 National Convention and Sport Show Auctions

(Coming Soon)

Raffles

All raffle packages are being sold through the event registration portal.

(Coming Soon)

2025 Convention Sponsors