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Events Page In God We trust WE HAVE SOME EXCITING EVENTS PLANNED HERE IN NY. FOR 2008 Come join us for some family fun times Check these out "Triple Bird Hunt " Hunter Helping Kids, Inc Northern New York Chapter offers GUIDED YOUTH
WEEKEND, DUCK, PHEASANT ,GOOSE HUNTS You must be 12-15 years of age with a valid hunting license
accompanied by a Parent or legal guardian. Prizes for all participating youths. Please bring a lunch & drink as youths will be hunting in groups, each group will be hunting at different locations. Click the link below to download your entry Drawing date September 1st,2008 ____________________________________________________
FUND RAISER Tickets are $5.00 ea. or 3 for $10.00 Encore 209x50 Stainless steel with Composite
Buttstock and Forend. Fund raisers like this one helps us continue providing hunts and events for kids FREE of charge __________________________________________________________________________
Ten children will be chosen from different states for this hunt. There will be five girls and five boys chosen. Each child will receive a rifle with scope, a full set of camo, boots and a bag of accessories, food and lodging, licenses and all hunting fees. If your child is chosen, the child and two family members may attend with meals and lodging included . IT'S FREE! (No transportation provided) Click on the link below to down load entries Ultimte Kids Hunt 2007 Photos
_________________________________________________________________________________________ Target shooting at our range Spring Youth weekend Turkey Hunt Ultimate Kids Hunt in NC. Pheasant Hunt Duck & Goose guided hunts Fall turkey hunt And possibly a guided doe hunt this fall Guided Fishing Trips
2008 Spring Youth Turkey Hunt Weekend was Huge !! The Northern New York
chapter of Hunters Helping Kids, Inc. held their 3rd annual Youth Turkey Hunt
weekend event on April 26 & 27th, 2008.
Youth Turkey Hunt Photos Just click on the link DVD Youth Turkey Event Spring 2008 A special thanks to all the companies supporting our Youth Turkey Event Sandy Pond Sportsman Assn. Cabela's Widrick Implement Oswego Co Federation of Sportsman National Wild Turkey Federation Essay Contest winner My First Turkey!
First, I would like to thank you for having this wonderful hunt and all the GREAT prizes, also giving me this opportunity to get a bird! I loved being able to be in the great outdoors and just about having heart attacks when a gobbler goes off 20 feet from you! So Saturday Grandpa Ralph and Jay Stuckey and I went turkey hunting. Grandpa was there to see me get a bird [he gets more excited than me any way], Jay came to call them in [Thank you] and I was there to shoot the gobbler. So we had been hunting around Saturday and finally got a turkey in our sights! I took a shot at it with a 12 guage but my shot was low and hit it in the crest. It lay down a few seconds so I didn't shoot again then it ran away with a broken wing and got away! From this I learned that I need to make sure they are really dead. So Sunday we went to my great uncle Everett's land were we saw turkeys the day before. So right when we got out of the truck a Jake started gobbling from his roost. Then we went up ahead of him on the gas line and got the decoys set up and took cover in a juniper bush. Jay started calling the birds in on his call and about 4 gobblers started gobbling. The Jake that gobbled first started to come but turned back to another hen. Then a nice mature gobbler stepped out and a hen out in the field area got ticked off that he was headed to the decoys and started calling him but that didn't work. He was committed to the decoys. He started strutting his stuff I pulled up that 12 gauge sight on his head and eased the trigger. BANG I hit the turkey and he turned around and started his "Helen Keller" like run to the woods so I pumped the gun back and put some more lead in him, DOWN HE WENT [After Saturday I know to let those turkeys have it]! Grandpa was just saying he might have a hard time getting up but when the turkey hit the ground grandpa was jumping over my shoulder headed to the turkey [he was first to get there]. So that is how my turkey came to be! Again thank "Hunters Helping Kids", "Sportsman Club", "Jay" and the best grandparents this world has ever come to know! Thank you! Dallas's essay won him a new ground blind. My Turkey Hunting Essay
By: Danielle of PA. First I want to thank the hunters helping kids chapter for allowing me to come and participate in the spring turkey hunt. I would also like to thank Dick Worden and his family for welcoming me and the other members from Hunting the Backwoods who came on the trip with me we just want to say thank you for the hospitality and for treating us just like family we really enjoyed that. I had a really great time in New York hunting for turkey. When we first arrived at the cabin were me and my hunting group were staying at, we all were over whelmed by how the turkeys were every where, but once we all got in the woods and did some scouting it was even more amazing to hear turkeys gobbling everywhere. To hear so many turkeys gobbling at one time is a sound like no other you will ever hear and it sure does get your knees knocking. So here is how my hunt went. Saturday we got in to our blind we had set up the night before and just called all morning long and we had turkeys gobbling every where. So my dad got up in this tree stand that sits about 35 feet in the air to let us know where the birds were coming from, so my dad spots some, we get out of the blind to go check it out and we spot them, so we lay on the ground so they don’t spot us ,but it was too late, we were spotted and they were too close so we could not move, when we get back to the blind we come to find out from my dad that the turkeys circled around and went past our blind when we were not even in it. So the turkeys outsmarted us that time, but they didn’t Sunday. So its Sunday the last day, we get into where we are hunting and find that the blind we had set up was missing, so that’s ok no worries just gives us a chance to get a jump on where the turkeys have been coming out of, so we sit along this big open field and wait, well we start calling the turkeys and we have them calling every where, then we hear someone shoot right behind where we are sitting, so we start to figure the day is done because that’s what usually happens. Later we start to call the turkeys again, we only get one to answer and by that time my dad gets on the radio and says that we have birds in the field headed towards the rode we walked in on, so we get up and go after them so we can cut them off, well it worked. My turkey caller guy and I sit and wait for them. Then we see them come in and I start to shake so Troy (my turkey caller) tells me to take a deep breath. So then the three birds start to walk out to where I can get a shot at them and the first one walks out, then the second, then the third and wammm the third one goes down. Yep that’s right I got my first turkey in Sandy Creek New York and I have got to say there is no better feeling in the world than seeing that bird go down and knowing that you just got your first turkey. Also when I went up to retrieve my turkey Troy says that he can’t get up because he tucked his foot underneath him when we went to sit and wait for the birds to walk in that will teach him to do that again. A Special thanks to: I want to thank everyone who made this possible for me to come and enjoy hunting with the Hunters Helping Kids organization in New York. I want to give a special thank to and his family for inviting me to come up and hunt. I also want to thank Dale Dodson for taking time out of his busy schedule to come and help with the whole thing. I want to thank everyone once again for everything they did to make this hunt possible I really enjoyed it and don’t worry I will be back.
School report by a young lady from Fulton NY on her experience at the 2007 Ultimate Kids Hunt Justine’s Hunt
We left Fulton at approximately four am. It was still snowing quite hard and really big flakes and it was about four degrees. We saw many beautiful sites along the way. We traveled through the states of New York, Pennsylvania, as well as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. The further south we got the better the weather got. Oh yes the snow stopped before we even got to Syracuse. When we were in Maryland and the Virginias we seen were they had gotten a snow storm. We saw where people had gone in to the ditches along route 81. The snow was only about two or three inches deep but that is a lot to them. While we were in a restaurant the waitress commented about us, thinking we were from there, and how there was not any school. There was barely two inches of snow and the green grass was still showing. We all thought that was funny. The Blue Ridge Mountains were beautiful, we were on one mountain side driving and could look out across a big valley and see the other mountains. The temperature was forty degrees when we got to the hotel in Lenoir North Carolina where we were staying. The room was very nice and we started to bring all of our stuff to the room. We then had pizza and drinks, watched TV, and played on the computer and went to bed quite early, it had taken about twelve hours to get there and everyone was tired. We slept in until about eight thirty. The Hunters Helping Kids group was a really great bunch of men as well as women. The fun did not stop then, the hunters took us out to a shooting range and taught us about safety and let us shoot at targets. We then returned and got ready to meet that evening that was when we got our other things. They gave all of us many great things. They gave each one of us, a rifle with a scope, and a shirt, pants, boots, jacket, and a hat. They gave us each a nice folding knife, a fishing pole with a reel, a backpack, socks, and other things too. It was really like Christmas. It was just great. We then went back to our hotel and got a good nights sleep I had to get up early four o’clock in the morning. My guides name was Mr. Gary he was very nice and he took me and my Papa out to our box. Mr. Gary had a heater to keep me warm and lots of snacks. He told me and my grandpa lots of fun stories and told us things about nature. He was very tired because he did not get a lot of sleep for a few days trying to get things ready for all the kids. Mr. Gary and I fell asleep a few times. My Papa and Mr. Gary were talking and I seen two deer come into our area. I got all set to shoot and fired the gun at the deer. I did not get the deer but I sure had fun. We seen two flocks of turkeys and watched the squirrels play. It was really nice sitting out there with nature. I would have liked to get a deer but I still had a good time. We took a break for lunch but the rest of the time we stayed in the box watching for more deer. We left the box at dark. Papa and I went back to the hotel and got granny and we all met at the fire department for a really big seafood dinner. It was delicious. The Hunters Helping Kids people but on a auction, and gave out awards. To the guides and some to the kids. Everyone that was there went home with gifts. We then went back to our room. Granny and I slept in. when we got up we packed our stuff and headed for New York. The ride home was not very nice at all we drove through a bad ice storm and it rained really hard too. We finally got home and everyone was safe. Everyone was so nice and a lot of people said to come back down sometime. I want to it was nice there. Maybe we can go hunting with Mr. Gary again and this time Granny can go too. A lot of people think that hunters are bad people, that is not true. Everyone that I saw this weekend showed me that hunters are really nice and fun people to spend time with. I can’t wait to go out again. I really couldn’t thank everyone as much as I wanted. Hunters Helping Kids are great. All I can say is thank you everyone. I will always remember this weekend and I know the hunters will always remember how to spell “Justine from UP-State NY”.
By: Justine Short note from a young man from Florida Thank you HHK, once i got back from the hunt in North Carolina me and my father put up a tree stand on my uncles neighboring property and harvested a 168lb. 8pt. just 25 yards from my stand. the reason I'm telling yall this is because I used all the products you gave and shot the buck with the ammunition and weapon you provided us with. once again, thank you! Cody Kent I have to add to this part, This young man Cody was a winner of the 2007 Ultimate kids Hunt. When he was notified of his win he insisted he would like to give his hunt to Jonathan Guerrero a friend thats not as fortunate as himself that really wanted a hunting experience. With that kind gesture we decide to have both young men participate in the hunt. And with the Lords help Jonathan harvested his first deer. and what excitement that brought to both boys and their moms.
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