Posted By: cessna
Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 4:00 AM
Congratulations to Mark for being one of the five finalist for the 2018 Conklin Award. That is quite an honor sir, so a big congratulations to you. To be considered for this award is to reach a very high pinnacle in itself. Well earned by Mr. Hampton.
Posted By: billa
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 4:16 AM
Mark - Congratulations on being a finalist. You are truely an elite big game hunter.
Posted By: sixshot
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 6:40 AM
Congratulations Mark, very deserving!
Dick
Posted By: Randy M
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 7:33 AM
Very cool and well deserved. Congratulations!
Posted By: Mark Hampton
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 1:31 PM
Thanks for the kind words. Honestly, I'm not sure how I got there!
Posted By: 500WE
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 2:19 PM
Wow, Mark. Congratulations on this great news. To be so recognized by Dr. Conklin's Foundation as a nominee is much deserved by you, and also a recognition of the viability of handgun hunting.
Posted By: 45MAN
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 2:40 PM
NOT KNOWING ABOUT THE CONKLIN AWARD, I GOOGLED IT. THE 2018 AWARD WAS GIVEN OUT AT THE DALLAS SAFARI CLUB GATHERING EARLIER THIS MONTH. A PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, BUT ALL THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN RIFLE HUNTERS. DO NOT KNOW WHY MARK DID NOT WIN IT THIS YEAR BUT HE IS CERTAINLY DESERVING OF THE AWARD.
Posted By: tradmark
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 2:50 PM
Congrats mark, u certainly DO deserve that award!
Posted By: s4s4u
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 3:38 PM
Good on ya, Mark. You are in rare air there.
Posted By: Mark Hampton
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 5:44 PM
Thanks again for the kind words -- I'm most grateful and appreciative.
Posted By: jamesfromjersey
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/18/2018 9:43 PM
Mark Hampton for president.....................
Posted By: ruger4570
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/19/2018 1:26 AM
Wow, very impressive. Congrats...
Posted By: Gregg Richter
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/19/2018 5:48 AM
Mark Hampton for president.....................
Y'all know that Mark was in politics at one time, eh?
I would certainly vote for him.
Posted By: Dekker
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/20/2018 12:16 AM
Congratulations!!! well deserved.
Posted By: JDK
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 01/21/2018 3:57 PM
Congrats for sure! I have a very well worn copy of Hunting for Handgunners filled with pics of you and stories of your exploits.
Posted By: Igor
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 02/02/2018 1:09 PM
Congratulation Mark - you are right person for 2018 Conklin Award, hope you will win it!
I also think that members of this forum should be proud to have person like you amongst us. I found your articles very inspiring and often I use them as sanity check for my own, personal opinions/ideas. Tnx for that
Posted By: junebug
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 02/02/2018 4:22 PM
Congratulations Mark! Very deserving of the award.
Posted By: Gregg Richter
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 02/03/2018 4:03 PM
NOT KNOWING ABOUT THE CONKLIN AWARD, I GOOGLED IT. THE 2018 AWARD WAS GIVEN OUT AT THE DALLAS SAFARI CLUB GATHERING EARLIER THIS MONTH. A PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, BUT ALL THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN RIFLE HUNTERS. DO NOT KNOW WHY MARK DID NOT WIN IT THIS YEAR BUT HE IS CERTAINLY DESERVING OF THE AWARD.
Sorry guys, but soap box time.
This kind of gets my blood roiling... I do not have a problem at all with rifle hunters per se, as indeed I also qualify as one myself because I hunt with rifles, handguns, shotguns, bow and arrow. etc. I am pure and simply: A HUNTER.
BUT...It almost seems like we as handgun hunters as a group are looked down upon. I sincerely hope that I am not correct that this "disparaging" view of a person that hunts with a handgun had anything at all to do with the decision for that award to go to a rifle hunter, but I really gotta wonder.
Mark, since you were one of the five finalists, putting you on a par with the rest of them, you should have received that award; if for no other reason than the fact that a handgun is the more challenging weapon.
Don't get me wrong, I do not want to take anything away from the hunter that received the award, I am just venting.
Posted By: TomC
Re: Congratulations Mark Hampton - 02/03/2018 7:23 PM
I met Mark years ago and he was one of the nicest guys I have ever met. A class gentleman.