MN Pheasant Hunt

We put on a pheasant  hunt for disabled in Minnesota called the MN broken wing.  It is a free event for the hunter and guest for 3 days.

For more info contact:

Doug Bermel
Coordinator MN Broken Wing
dabermel@hotmail.com
612-750-2826

WV Hunt
I am a forestry faculty member at  a small college in West Virginia.  Our

college operates two farms, and we would like to have a small (6-10 hunters)

challenged hunt on one of our farms.  The hunt is tentatively planned for Oct

31.  If there is any information or assistance you could provide I would greatly

appreciate it.
 
Thanks,
 
 
Jeff Jones
Assistant Professor of Forestry
Potomac State College of WVU
101 Fort Ave  Box 78
(304)788-6986
jwjones@mail.wvu.edu

I started Handicapable Hunters in Iowa over 10 years ago. I have moved to Battle

Creek, Iowa and am now the pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church. If you know of

anyone with a disability in Iowa who wants to go deer hunting feel free to give

them my contact info. I can be reached at pastorpotluck@yahoo.com. There is no

cost for the use of our adaptive equipment. The rules are simple. The hunter is

responsible for transportation, all licenses and tags, lodging, food, firearm (

we only have equipment for shotguns and muzzleloaders for quads), bow if they

have upper body capabilities, and whatever medical care they might need. We

provide a place to hunt on public land and supply a blind, the equipment for

shooting if needed, help to drag out the deer, butcher it (boned out steaks,

roast, and deer burger) and fellowship. Oh yeah they’ll need an ice chest to

take the meat home. If you know of anyone have them give me an email and we’ll

get them hunting.
 
Randall D. Cormeny
Iowa
pastorpotluck@yahoo.com

Streamlight Challenged Hunter of the Year Award

If you would like to nominate a disabled or ill hunter for the Streamlight Challenged Hunter of the Year Award please get your application at http://www.badf.org/Resources/PDFs/tabid/163/Default.aspx

The winner participated in the 2010 Buckmasters Life Hunt Classic in January.

Ducks Unlimited honored U.S. Army Soldier Adam Herold and the killed and wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Nebraska at a dedication ceremony for the Fallen Heroes Marsh. The memorial is located on Ducks Unlimited’s Verona Complex, a key wetland area in the Rainwater Basin. The marsh is a place where friends and families can come to hunt, watch, photograph or simply listen to ducks and remember the sacrifices made by U.S. military veterans from Nebraska.

Jacob Ray and his family in McCalla, Alabama are offering to allow our disabled
hunters to attend his dove hunt again on opening day September 5th.
We can start shooting after noon.  Lunch will be served and Jacob says
there are a lot of doves there right now.  If you want to attend
please email all of your info to dsullivan@buckmasters.com.  Please
include your disability, address, contact info and if you’ll have an
attendant with you.  Your attendant can hunt with you from your
location.  Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to
attend, the number is limited.

An email from David Sullivan at BADF

There have been a lot of requests for info on vision impaired hunting
devices and techniques lately.  I want to include an article in the
magazine about it.  Please send me some quality digital photos of your
set-ups and text with your technique and contact info so we can help
others.  I’ll put this on the website (www.badf.org) too.  Send to
dsullivan@buckmasters.com

 
August 9, 2009
Contact:  Teresa Baum-Farrow
Panama City, Florida
baumt@bellsouth.net  850-685-5683
 
 
WAITING . WAITING . WAITING . . on our HealthCare System
 
Random Act of Kindness renders 30 yr old Bay County, Florida man a quadraplegic -
Michael Harris waits for a Spine Rehabilitation Hospital who will accept him.
 
 
“This could have happened to any one of us”, says Michael Harris’ Mother, Darlene, who has been by Michael’s side at Bay Medical Hospital day or night for 120 days now.  The irony of this situation is that for the better part of Michael’s adult life, he has worked tirelessly on behalf of terminally ill and disabled children and adult veterans through groups like Buckmasters and The Way Outfitters.  He arranged many complimentary trips for the children and their families to come here to Bay County to fish and swim at the beach and to hunt in Alabama.  Now, he is one of them, and all he desperately needs and wants is to go to a specialty Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Hospital for the rehab treatment he needs to help him get off of the breathing ventilator and learn the new mobility skills he’ll need  for his new life as a disabled person. 
 
Michael’s C-5 and C-7 vertebrae were broken and his spinal cord was injured while helping a friend unload large sheets of plywood at his home.  The stacked plywood fell like dominos and Michael was standing in its path.  It crushed him and in an instant his life was changed. 
 
“The nurses and doctors at Bay Medical have been wonderful to Michael and to our family”, says Johnny Harris, Michael’s father.  “Michael has had a few set-backs since the injury, but he is getting stronger every day and is anxiously awaiting rehabilitation”.  It is a critical next step for him.  Darlene Harris, a humble & caring woman, who just happens to be a nurse, has been through so many ups & downs since the accident.  “It is easy for my husband, Johnny, and I to lose faith – but just when we get down someone new walks into our lives and a new door opens, and this gives us hope and the strength to keep going”.
 
There are fourteen specialty Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Centers in the country.
One of them is Boston Medical Center where Christopher Reeves was treated and rehabilitated.  These types of injuries are fragile & complicated and can be layered with ancillary health problems at any stage of recovery.  Sometimes it is two steps forward and one step back and this can be very hard for the patient and the families. 

What’s the hold-up?  Finding the right Center who will accept Michael’s case. 
Michael, like millions of Americans, didn’t have health insurance when this happened to him.   He’s just another number stuck in our healthcare system now – which doesn’t wear a watch, by the way.   “He’s a very determined young man, says Darlene, and we aren’t giving up”.  We were told this week by Medicaid that one of the best facilities in the country, Shepherd Hospital in Atlanta, didn’t have enough dollars in their reserve healthcare
Account set aside (for cases like ours) to take our son.  We waited over 4 weeks to hear this very bad news.
It has been a major set-back for us & now we have to start the process all over again.  But, we have also heard that other states won’t work with the Florida Medicaid system.  We need help from our government officials,
starting right here in our County and all the way up to Governor Charlie Crist, and we’re not going to stop until we get some help. 
 
In writing this story, I find this ironic that the very day the Harris’ are given this bad news, FOX News airs a piece on “Managing the Wild Mustang Horses” and indicated that $700 million dollars of our hard earned tax money is being spent on this cause!  Go figure. 
 
“No matter how broken we are, we can’t give up for Michael’s sake”. “ He can’t speak for himself, so we want to share his story in hopes that he will be given the chance to go to SCI Rehab and live the best quality life he can possibly have when he comes home”.   And then, maybe we can help make it easier for others who are going through similar circumstances to work through the system like we have had to do.  Maybe they won’t have to wait.

NEWTOWN, Conn.–In response to an announcement today regarding a National Parks Service program encouraging hunters to voluntarily switch to alternative ammunition, the National Shooting Sports Foundation rejected NPS’s categorization of traditional ammunition as a health threat. NSSF is offering to work with the National Park Service to develop measures to educate hunters about steps they can take to prevent scavengers from ingesting lead fragments of spent traditional ammunition. The park service is proposing to ban, at a minimum, the use of lead bullets, shot and sinkers in the park system by NPS personnel.

While no scientific evidence supports restricting the use of traditional ammunition containing lead components, the firearms industry believes that establishing voluntary measures is a more reasoned step than banning traditional ammunition, a drastic policy decision unsupported by science. NPS has raised concerns that lead bullet fragments found in game meat could cause lead poisoning in humans, a charge not borne out in scientific studies, including a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

“While we’re not opposed to voluntary measures, we maintain there is no need for them,” said Steve Sanetti, president of NSSF, the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry. “The firearms industry supports science-based decisions about wildlife management. Under current regulations, there is no scientific evidence showing that the health of wildlife populations and humans is at risk from the use of traditional ammunition.”

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