… SCI Youth Hunt …
As many of you LIG readers know, my grandaughter had a brain tumor the size of an orange removed in February 2011 by the great team at Doernbeckers. She’s doing AMAZINGLY well & thanks for your prayers. I put her name in for the SCI Youth hunt at Clover Creek Ranch this year. She, ( and several other ifish member’s children) were selected to participate. If I said she had a great time I would be the master of understatement!!!!!
Our team included a pair of long time friends, Chris M. & Jeff W. They treated her like she was golden! Chris guided and Jeff ran the video camera. Early the first morning, they got her on a nice Corsican ram. One shot from “my” 7mm-08 and he took two steps and fell over dead as puppy love. (The reason MY is in quotes is she told her grandma on the phone, “Grandpa doesn’t know it yet but I’m going to inherit that gun.”)
We’d talked about how she would handle the death of the animal on the ride over. As soon as she made her shot I ran down to her. She jumped up, hugged me, and said, “See Grandpa, I told you I’d be okay with it”, smiling from ear to ear. We took photos & video, then loaded her ram in Chris’ truck & looked for another animal for the other youngster Chris & Jeff were guiding. After a walk and no animals we went back to the skinning shack and she jumped right in with the knife her grandma, “the Admiral” & I had given her as a birthday ( next week) present.
As soon as she was done with the dressing of her animal, she started asking if she could hunt deer with me & her uncle, “Elk Camp Rodge” this year…Jeff, who is also ECR’s boss, told her that if ECR would not take her, all she had to do was tell him and he’d give him lousy shifts & duties until he did…She glowed thinking of the power she’d hold over her uncle. With all that she had been through, it was wonderful to see her so happy!!!!!!!!
Her mother told me that she talked non-stop for over two hours when she got home! Her mom was also very grateful that she got to keep the meat….they are going though some very hard times financially & will put it to good use. Though I am not a member anymore due to limited retirement income, SCI does AMAZING things for hunters & has obviously brought another gal into our family of hunters. I strongly urge you to become a member & become involved in their conservation projects. (All of the ten youth were given bat house plans & asked to put up two in their neighborhoods for their contribution).
All of the youth hunters were also donated a hunter orange vest & a FREE shoulder mount of their animals! So thanks must also go to those taxidermists who donate their time to mount the animals. Kyrah has the Portland SCI banquet on her calandar and is looking forward to going & seeing her new friends, Jeff & Chris again as well as “Dabbad” & his son, “Rockhound” who were in charge of this years hunt @ Clover Creek Ranch, cooked our (WONDERFUL) first meal at the ranch and 1000’s of other unseen duties!!!!!!
Written by: SCI Portland Chapter
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
