SHOT Expo stage presentations 2024

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER

SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER

Paul Boag – Paul Boag’s Outdoors

A third-generation sambar hunter who is busy raising the fourth generation, Paul Boag is Australia’s best-known and most accomplished hunter educator. Paul loves the hunt, but for him, the spoils of the hunt are just as important.

Paul promotes the consumption of wild shot venison with an evangelistic zeal – he raises his large family almost exclusively on wild shot or caught protein, he gives homemade venison smallgoods as gifts to his friends, and he is at his happiest when he is sharing his skills with new (and not so new hunters).

At SHOT Expo, Paul will be demonstrating the breakdown of a deer in his no-nonsense, easily understandable and highly entertaining way.

Dave Cann – Cleaver Salumi Cabinets

Demonstration Details

Join Dave Cann, founder and owner of CLEAVER Salumi Cabinets, for an introductory demonstration into basics of salami making with game and wild caught meats.

Start your salami making journey or expand your knowledge base with tips and techniques regarding meat selection, preparation, process, salts and spices, and maintain the correct curing environment.

They will also be an opportunity to ask questions and pick Dave’s brain and experience too.

About Dave Cann

CLEAVER Salumi Cabinets are the brainchild of Dave Cann, a self propelled foodie/ business owner with a MacGyver like resourcefulness.

Dave has worked and owned small businesses in the food, wine and hospitality sector for over 25 years. Starting in a local Italian restaurant as a ‘dish pig’ at age 14, by 19 he had half a winemaking degree and owned the restaurant with his family. He has a good nose for both flavour and opportunity.

He currently runs an award winning retail and appliance store, cooking school and spice wholesale business with his very tired wife, in Warragul, Victoria.

Somewhere between importing pepper and offering DIY butchery classes in the cooking school, came the genesis for CLEAVER Salumi Cabinets.

After joining traditional salami making weekends with local chef friends, and fortuitously finding the right people to work with in manufacturing, Dave went about trying to engineer a reliable, safe way to cure artisan quality charcuterie at home all year round.

CLEAVER launched the world’s first range of purpose built domestic salumi cabinets on the market in 2016 and since then Dave has become rather the authority in the DIY salami making community.

CLEAVER Salumi Cabinets remove the seasonal barriers to producing homemade smallgoods and are beloved by cooks, hunters, farmers, independent butchers and restaurateurs across the country.

Recently Dave and his team launched a range of premium salami and sausage making spice kits in collaboration with Spice Oddity and Dave regularly hits the road to demonstrate salami making across Australia & New Zealand.

Rob Fickling – Moroka30 and Beyond The Divide

Rob Fickling has left a mark on the Australian hunting scene over the past couple of decades, just like a few others have done. Rob’s manufacturing and retail business, Moroka30, is an established innovator in clothing and equipment tailored for the Australian backcountry hunter. This innovation is strengthened by Moroka30’s more recent tie-in with first responder outfitter SORD.

Rob is also the creative force behind the groundbreaking, multi-award-winning Australian television program, Beyond the Divide. Beyond the Divide brought hunting adventures from across Victoria, across Australia and across the world into suburban lounge rooms for the first time.

At heart, Rob is a backcountry sambar hunter – at SHOT Expo 2024 Rob will be sharing his passion, his experience and his expertise with our guests.

Ben Vander Veen – Hunt the Night

A pioneer in the Australian thermal and night vision hunting scene, Ben’s business, Hunt the Night, is the leading retailer of thermal and night vision equipment.

With a focus on testing, development and education, Ben is an expert on this emerging and ever-developing technology, and his no-nonsense talks avoid all of the jargon and focus on giving hunters the knowledge that they need to make an informed decision before investing. Ben’s presentation is not to be missed by buyers as it will help you to select the optic that suits you in, what is, a saturated market.

Kurt Murphy – Game Management Authority of Victoria (GMA)

The Game Management Authority (GMA) is the independent authority responsible for regulating game hunting in Victoria. We regulate through education, research and enforcement to achieve responsible and sustainable game hunting in Victoria.

Hunting’s future depends on you! We’re lucky to have such great hunting in Victoria. Maybe you went hunting as a kid, or you now go hunting with your kids. Maybe you’re new to hunting or an old hand happy to share some know-how. Whoever you are, one of the key traits of being a good hunter is respect.

The hunting community has formed a partnership to promote standards to ensure respectful and responsible hunting. This will help raise awareness and maintain the highest standards of behaviour for all involved in hunting.

At SHOT Expo, staff from GMA will be discussing the importance of this partnership and of hunters putting respect at the centre of everything we do.

Working Gundog Association of Australia

The Working Gundog Association of Australia (Victoria), established in 1998, is dedicated to the breeding, training, promoting and trialling of working gun dogs. The club holds retrieving trials, field trials, demonstrations, field assessment days and duck opening practice days, as well as monthly training days. Most club members are keen hunters, and their dogs are used in the field as hunting companions. Training days are held on the third Sunday of the month. Working Gundog Association of Australia is accredited with the Victorian Government as an organisation able to conduct field trials during open game season in Victoria.

Fady Khalife – SSAA Victoria

If you’re brand new to shooting or just have a passing interest, there is professional guidance in firearms use and getting a firearms licence.

SSAA Victoria RTO Manager Fady Khalife has been instructing new shooters under the Association’s Practical Firearms Training Program (PFTP). He will explain the steps to take and things to consider when becoming a firearms owner.

Fady’s work in developing the PFTP has been recognised by Victoria Police and the Introductory Course run under the program is an alternative to the Firearms Safety Course, which must be successfully completed to obtain a firearms licence.

The course also provides instruction on handling, cleaning, and accurately using a firearm, and Fady’s presentation will introduce you to the course content.