This past weekend we hosted 5 disabled vets on a Texas hunt.
This is the second year we have done this. I spent 2 years before that getting local ranchers on board with my ideas. The lodge I'm affiliated with provides most of the funds thru grants. The first year I had 1800 acres, this year I had 5500 acres opened up for my project. The idea is to bring disabled vets in for a hog hunt. We furnish a place to stay, a couple meals, and various odds & ends.
The ranchers have declared they are overrun with doe and would like them thinned out, also. The ranchers are very supportive of our event and they have their neighbors and friends wanting to get involved. I think I'll have over 10,000 acres next year to divide a new group of vets up for. Some of the ranchers guide the vets, some just open up for whatever we want to do. It is growing big enough now that I can't do it all with 1 helper, so I brought in a local retired vet to help this year.
We declared this hunt a success Sunday evening with some hog and deer backstraps cooked on the grill.
I'll add some pics later. The tally was 5 doe, 2 bucks, 12 hogs in 3 days. Also, countless hours of camaraderie. I get an enormous amount of pleasure from this opportunity to give a little something to the guys that paid a price for my freedom.
This is the second year we have done this. I spent 2 years before that getting local ranchers on board with my ideas. The lodge I'm affiliated with provides most of the funds thru grants. The first year I had 1800 acres, this year I had 5500 acres opened up for my project. The idea is to bring disabled vets in for a hog hunt. We furnish a place to stay, a couple meals, and various odds & ends.
The ranchers have declared they are overrun with doe and would like them thinned out, also. The ranchers are very supportive of our event and they have their neighbors and friends wanting to get involved. I think I'll have over 10,000 acres next year to divide a new group of vets up for. Some of the ranchers guide the vets, some just open up for whatever we want to do. It is growing big enough now that I can't do it all with 1 helper, so I brought in a local retired vet to help this year.
We declared this hunt a success Sunday evening with some hog and deer backstraps cooked on the grill.
I'll add some pics later. The tally was 5 doe, 2 bucks, 12 hogs in 3 days. Also, countless hours of camaraderie. I get an enormous amount of pleasure from this opportunity to give a little something to the guys that paid a price for my freedom.