[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT:Fwd: Fw: Blind hunter bags two trophies

  • From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 06:53:38 -0500

Hi Lora,

I have done some shooting. I find it interesting. I do my shooting with my son-inlaw and my neighbot. My neighbor enjoys shooting and has a large number of different kinds and calibers of guns.

When I am shooting It is generally the stationary target kind of shooting. I let my neighbor stand behind me. He directs my aiming so that I am at least in the general range. Our targets are small and are more than a hundred feet away.

Actually though, the most fun I have is operating the clay pigeon launcher for them. I am able to change the angles at which the birds are thrown. I have learned the kind they have the most trouble with so I let them get feeling good about hitting so many. Then I send out one they aren't expecting. ;-))

My favorite gun to target shoot with is just a small 22 caliber hand gun or else a 9 mil Glauck. Glauck is probably spelled differently.

Enjoy it if you get the chance.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Cindy,

Oh, thank you for the article!!!!  It's fun reading about others who have
done this. Like you, I don't want to hunt. I love the taste of wild game,
but have no desire to shoot it myself.  I'd love to just get the feel of
shooting different guns, from a little .22 to a big rifle, just to say I've
done it.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 1:29 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT:Fwd: Fw: Blind hunter bags two trophies

Louise sent me this article, and, Lora, I immediately thought of you and
your desire to learn to shoot. Go, girl!! You may not want to kill anything
(I wouldn't) but target shooting would be fun. Maybe you could even skeet
shooting. I imagine if you knew enough physics to know how far a clay pigeon or whatever they release could fly, and in what direction, and height, from
the sound of the release you'd be able to hit the pigeon, once you learned
to shoot. SOUnds like fun.

Cindy




The Houghton Lake Resorter, Michigan USA Thursday, November 30, 2006

Blind hunter bags two trophies

- with a little help from his friends

Caption: Roscommon High School student Nick Bennett, 16, earned his
hunter safety certificate this fall and didn't waste anytime bagging
two trophies.

In September Nick shot a 371-lb. feral hog at the Vaunderosa Ranch,
St.
Helen. In October, Nick used the same 30-30 Winchester to bag an
8-point buck at Anscheutz Whitetail Way in Spruce. Such success at
that age is one thing, but the special aspect of Nick's success is
that he is legally blind.
Through special regulations in the Michigan game laws, visually
impaired people can obtain a hunting license and a hunter safety
certificate.

Nick's hunting career began when he started attending Roscommon
Baptist Church and started to hang out with Dan Holbrook of Roscommon
and Mike Ritchie of Higgins Lake.

"Dan was teaching me about reloading ammunition and I was teaching him
about hunting," Ritchie said. "And Nick pipes up and says he wants to
go shooting with us. Just what the world needs - a blind teenager with
a gun. We laughed!"

Nick began with a pellet gun and shot so well that he advanced all the
way up to a 50 cal. muzzleloader.

"We would line up the shot with a shooting bench and with a laser site
on the rifle, then we would have Nick take off the safety and squeeze
the trigger" explains Holbrook.

After hitting the target time after time, Nick asked "When can I go
hunting with you guys?"

After that Nick was enrolled in a hunter safety class with lead
instructor Richard Keissel of Eldorado. Kissel has been a hunter
safety instructor for
32 years and has instructed thousands of students young and old, but
has never had a challenge quite like Nick.

A volunteer mentor was assigned to Nick to help him through all the
hands-on activities and finally to take his test, they didn't have a
copy of the test in Braille. Nick's aide at school typed up all the
notes in Braille and lecture tapes were acquired from the DNR.

Nick's mentor was Mark Copeland who is the manager at Jay's Sporting
Goods of Gaylord. Mark attended all four sessions with Nick and
administered the test orally with Nick missing only two questions out
of 50.

With the hunter safety certificate in hand, Nick held Dan and Mike to
their promise.

"We told Nick if he would pass hunter safety we would buy him a hunt
at Vaunderosa Ranch" Ritchie said. "Our church puts on a wildgame
dinner in March and we always shoot a boar for the dinner."

With the help of Mark Copeland, Nick shot a monster feral hog that
tipped the scales at 371 lbs.

Richard Keissel was so impressed with Nick and his accomplishment, he
contacted Diane and Floyd Moore, officers in the Safari Club
International of NE Michigan, and they arranged to take Nick bear
hunting in the Upper Peninsula, all expenses paid. With clothes
donated by Jay's Sporting Goods and determination, Nick hunted hard
for four days but had no luck shooting a bear. Diane and Floyd shared
the experience with a fellow SCI member, Alpena businessman Bruce
Anscheutz, and their disappointment at not getting a bear for Nick.
Anscheutz offered to let Nick hunt at his private ranch where Nick
shot an 8-point buck that weighed 150 pounds dressed out.

Nick expressed his appreciation to the Moores, Anscheutz, Keissel,
Charles Vaughn of the Vaunderosa Ranch, the Safari Club NE Michigan
chapter, Copeland, the Michigan DNR, Ritchie and Holbrook for helping
him achieve success.

"In 32 years of teaching hunter safety, I never have had a student
touch my heart like Nick," Keissel said. "He is truly a special young
man."

Nick said his dream hunt would be "to go to Africa and hunt big game.
Then give the meat to the orphan children and tell them about God's
Love."

Nick Bennett is a special hunter indeed.

(Dr. Ritchie is a Higgins Lake resident and contributed this article
to the
Resorter.)



http://www.houghtonlakeresorter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17532942&BRD=2053&P
AG=461&dept_id=382905&rfi=6





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