Youth Pheasant Hunt

October 20th was the Youth Pheasant season opener and we hosted the hunt again. I think it was year 12 or 13. Need to check on that. The flood made us change our location to the home place and public ground but it worked very well. The hunter safety review, breakfast, trap shooting and lunch was held at home and the pheasant hunt was on the public ground just to the North of us. We had 9 youth registered but due to other circumstances only 6 participated. We have so many people to thank; Please forgive me if I miss someone: Tracy Lott, Doug Brown, Chris Wall, and Bill Barraks handled the education, trap shooting and field mentoring. Shelly Singleton at Caseys furnished the pizza, donuts, milk and water. Jeff Henke and Walker Bolander presented the bird identification. Clint Henning and his GSP Roxie presented the pointing demonstration. Our awesome utility dogs were handled by Denise Heath (Lucky), Russ Bardenhagen (Gero), Terry Huebbe (Diesel), Lori Tyler (Sage), Jeff Swope (Ruger & Tess) and Lauren Wall (sorry I missed the name). Walker Bolander set the birds for us. Jerry Houtekier donated the Pheasants and even picked them up for us! Lonna of Where’s Lonna cooked lunch for us. (Burgers, Soup, Chips, Apples, Cookies) The chapter was very fortunate to be awarded a grant from NAVHDA’s youth program to help defer the expenses. REC help by donating safety glasses and ear plugs. The chapter provided all the guns, shells, hunting and safety equipment to the hunters. Highway Tires, Wapello help us with a cash donation. Jeff and I donated the house property and shed.