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Our Mission

Here at Southbound Outdoors, our mission is to enhance your time in the outdoors by designing, developing, and producing innovative products for outdoor enthusiasts.  We strive to give you better results, improve your comfort, and make every outdoor experience more memorable.  We recognize time spent in the outdoors is rare and valuable.  By using the latest technology, creative ideas, and exhaustive field research, we deliver products with world class performance.  Our passion for excellence will always drive us to deliver these products with quality, style, and aesthetic appeal that makes you proud to be part of the SBO community.

Our Process

When you’re in the great outdoors, you need your equipment to perform consistently.  The SBO process is designed to deliver the best products possible.

Creating a game call with realistic sound, high-end aesthetics, and best-in-class ergonomics requires a repeatable, consistent process.  As we were developing our line of game calls, we turned to technology early to ensure repeatable quality in our calls.  All parts of the call are modeled in CAD and cut on a CNC-style machine.  By using a CNC-style machine, we can achieve very consistent quality in our calls.  The aesthetic profiles, ergonomic finger grooves, fit tolerances, and sound boards are all cut on the CNC, meaning you’ll get calls with consistent sound, feel, and look.

Although we rely on technology to provide you with consistent product quality, we still hand-finish and hand-tune each and every call.  Rest assured, no call leaves the SBO shop without being carefully tuned and polished by our experienced call maker.  If we won’t put it on our lanyard, we’re not going to sell it, period.  By the time a call goes out our door, it’s beautifully finished, comfortably contoured, and delivers sounds as close to nature as you can find.

Our Founding Team

Here at Southbound Outdoors, we love being in the outdoors.  Hunting, fishing, hiking, boating, camping, it’s all we think about.  However, given the constraints of life, the amount of time we get to spend in the outdoors is limited.  Therefore, we strive to make each and every minute of outdoor activity the best it can be.

This led us to start Southbound Outdoors.  We want to combine our passion for the outdoors with our creativity and ingenuity to create products for people like us.
– People like us love the outdoors, but can never spend enough time there

– People like us enjoy getting others into the outdoors (kids, friends, etc.)

– People like us are constantly coming up with ideas for ways to improve the products we use during our outdoor excursions
We want to help you boost your outdoor experience by providing innovative products which boost your results, increase your comfort, and make every outdoor activity more memorable.  By using the latest technology, creative ideas, and exhaustive field research, we deliver products with world class performance.  Our passion for excellence will always drive us to deliver these products with quality, style, and aesthetic appeal that makes you proud to be part of the SBO community.
Dave Jordan, southbound outdoors extraordinary hunter

Dave Jordan

Chief Executive Officer/Master Call Maker

David Jordan was the catalyst that started Southbound Outdoors.  He is a North Carolina native and spent his younger years living in the eastern part of NC before moving to central NC around the age of 12.  He was lucky enough to have a father that began taking him duck hunting at the age of 4, along with plenty of other hunting and fishing mentors through the years.  Dave realized early in life he was passionate about the outdoors and has alway spent his free time in the woods or on a boat.  He is fortunate enough to have a wife and two children that share his passion for the outdoors.

Dave has a true engineer’s mind and has a degree from NC State in Electrical Engineering.  He has always enjoyed inventing and making things from furniture to circuits.  A few years ago, he was looking at a turkey call one day and said to himself “I bet I can make that.  Not only can I make it, but I bet I can figure out how it works, and make it better!”  Dave walked out to his wood shop, and Southbound Outdoors was born.

Brian Burress, southbound outdoors extraordinary hunter

Brian Burress

Chief Financial Officer

Brian has spent nearly all of his life in Tennessee.  He grew up in the North West part of the state and was lucky enough to learn duck hunting on Reelfoot Lake.  He also spent as much time as possible deer hunting river bottoms and bass fishing on Kentucky Lake.  Brian attended the University of Tennessee, where he received a degree in Computer Engineering.  Later, he attended Lipscomb University to get his MBA.
In 2005 Brian married his high school sweetheart, who understands and even supports his hunting and fishing addictions!  They live in middle TN with their three young sons.  Brian is now passing on his love for the outdoors to his three young sons.

Brian and Dave met through work several years ago.  They soon realized they shared many interests including hunting and fishing.  As Dave progressed into making awesome game calls, they decided to team up and form an actual business.  Brian manages most of the legal, accounting, and other aspects of the business so Dave can focus on manufacturing and new product development for the SBO community.  Brian also manages the SBO Field Staff and SBO Pro Staff programs.

Chase Baker

Chief Marketing Officer