The other day I was talking with my buddy Muskrat about the friends of the NRA banquet that is coming up in May.  We talked about a lot of things and he said that a lot of people call him lucky because he wins so many guns and things from those banquets.  He said it doesn’t hurt to buy a whole lot of tickets for those drawings to up your odds.  And he is right.  If you shoot enough times at something you are bound to hit it eventually.

Occasionally a person can just purchase one ticket for a drawing and have it be the lucky one drawn, but more often than not, it won’t happen that way.

Recently, a local wildlife group called the United Wildlife Cooperative,

http://www.unitedwildlifecooperative.org/_WELCOME.html

were offered six fully guided and furnished turkey hunts for six lucky youth hunters.  The UWC spent countless hours marketing those six tags and took donations of $20 for each ticket in the bucket.  I heard they sold something like 80 tickets.  The drawing took place and they announced the lucky winners names “slowly” throughout one day on their Facebook page.  All except the last name.  They held out on that one until they had over 400 likes on their Facebook page, or Adam Eakles “Roughing it Outdoors” show that was aired on KSL, April 28, whichever came first.

They also were donated a bunch of other prizes to be given away to the youth that didn’t get lucky enough to draw a turkey hunt and one of those prizes was a Mossberg Bantam 500 shotgun!  Other prizes included turkey calls, decoys and other assorted turkey hunting related items.

What a fun thing for them to do for some lucky youth hunters!  I commend them and those who donated the prizes!  Thank you sincerely from me.

The winners of prizes were Brian Robbins, Preston Vorhees, Terry Cunningham, Tanner Gagnard, Amy Barton and Solomon Dittmar.

Winners of the guided turkey hunts are:  Cody McNicol, Michael Christensen, Morgan Keel, Kaytlin White, Dustyn Woodard  and my very own Grandson, Conner Zundel!

The turkey hunts will be split between two different weekends in May, the first being May 4-6 the second May 11-13.  Three days, two nights.  The kids will be accompanied by one adult, either a parent or guardian.  They will sleep in tent accommodations for the two nights and meals will be provided (I would expect dutch oven meals).  There will be lessons given on turkey habits, calling techniques, hunting the wiley birds etc.  They say there will even be some live entertainment!  What a wonderful event.  Also, the local TV show called “Roughing it Outdoors”, with Adam Eakle will be there to video  some of the happenings and it will air on the show sometime this year.

Thank you all once again for offering this wonderful event and I sure hope you made a bunch of money doing it.  To the outfitters who will be guiding these youngsters, a special thanks to all of you.  And to the other sponsors, it’s just not that easy of a thing to do and I commend you as well.  Thank you!

A special GOOD LUCK to the lucky winners of the turkey hunts!  May the turkey Gods smile on you all with 10 inch beards and inch and a half spurs!

Maybe some of you will even see one of these special dream catchers come your way!

Bears Butt

April 18, 2012