"It's the challenge that lies within the wild that truly calls us to become sportsmen. Through this challenge and the entire outdoor experience, we can find the truest essence of nature, and many times we will also find the essence of ourselves."

This has been echoed many times throughout the northeast at countless seminars, sportsman shows and other outdoor events by Joe Judd. Joe's journey as a sportsman began at the young age of 10 years old while following his father and grandfather through the woodlands of the northeast. He quickly took to the sport of hunting and by the age of 18 was deeply entrenched in the entire outdoor scene. In 1976 while turkey hunting during the early years of Vermont's turkey hunting programs Joe met Dick Kirby who had just founded a company called Quaker Boy Game Calls. Ten years later, with much success and knowledge having been acquired by both men, Joe was asked to join the now prestigious pro-staff of Dick Kirby's company and thus another segment of his outdoor career had begun. Since that time Joe has traveled throughout the country working with the Quaker Boy staff producing outdoor videos, instructing at seminars and clinics while at the same time honing his own outdoor skills along the way. Joe has pursued everything from Maine moose to Alabama mallards. He has appeared on the Quaker Boy Video Series and has assisted many celebrities as well as countless sportsmen in their turkey hunting adventures. His expertise as an "Over the Edge" turkey hunter is well known throughout the northeast. Joe has been a member of the Mossy Oak Camouflage Company's Advisory Council for the past 8 years. His outdoor column, "On the Ridge" as well as his local cable TV show of the same name is a widely read and watched series in Western Massachusetts. Joe has also served 2 terms as the president of the Massachusetts State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.