Lance Homman Options

[Lance Homman]

Lance was born in 1964 in his native Kansas where he has lived, hunted, trapped and fished all his life. As a third generation coyote hunter, Lance cut his teeth on coyotes standing on the front seat of his dad's pickup truck following his grandpa's dogwagon as they coursed coyotes with sight hounds. At age 13, Lance made his first foray into predator calling having attended a seminar by F. Robert Henderson and Major Boddicker which would later become the basis for the first trapper education programs in Kansas.

As a trapper and avid caller all through high school Lance graduated and pursued his B.S. in wildlife biology at Kansas State University where he served as both Vice President-Wildife and President of the K-State Chapter of the Wildlife Society. During his tenure at KSU, Lance worked for and conducted studies on birds of prey, specifically developing a foster parenting program for orphaned raptors that would circumvent the adverse effects of social imprinting in great horned owls. In 1986, he was the youngest speaker to make a presentation at the Raptor Research Foundation's National Conference at the Univ. of Florida in Gainesville. Information and results gleaned from his work, and that of the facility where he worked, have since been incorporated into reintroduction programs for the California condor, the peregrine falcon and golden eagles in Kansas. It was during the Florida meeting that Lance did one of the stupidest things he can ever recall doing; after his presentation, he was approached by and offered a full sponsorship to McGuill University in Canada to do gradaute work on raptors by their then-Department Head, Dr. David Bird. He respectfully declined, citing his desire to go out and "not be in school for a while."

Dumb ass.

Throughout his lifetime, Lance has served in several positions with the Kansas Fur Harvester's Association, including helping in reorganizing them in the late 1980's. He is a free lance outdoor writer whose work has appeared in numerous trapping and calling-related magazines, including Trapper & Predator Caller where he is currentlya field editor, Predator Hunting, Predator Extreme, Fur Fish Game, Buckmaster's Whitetail magazine, The Fur Taker, American Trapper, Trapper's World, numerous small newspapers, and one time in Ocean, Field and River, an Australian periodical regarded to be the equivalent of our Field & Stream.

Lance currently works full time for the U.S Postal Service and is tolerated by his wife Lisa, son Dalian, and daughter, Tabor. Despite his accomplishments and the things he's done as a caller, Lance is wuick to point out that the best thing about his life of calling is the many friends he has made across the country, many of whom make up the "Who's Who" of predator calling.