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DSC NEWSLETTER VOLUME 31,Camp ISSUE 8 TalkSEPTEMBER 2018 DSC Heartland Chapter Gets Kids Outside n late July, DSC Heartland hosted a youth IHunter Education certification course in IN THIS ISSUE Nebraska. This was done through a joint effort with the Nebraska Game and Parks doing most Letter from the President .....................1 of the advertising for us and providing us with Outdoor Youth Event .............................4 all the teaching materials necessary along with Photo Contest .........................................5 the test form. Papillion Gun Club in Papillion, Auction Donations .................................6 Nebraska was our host providing facilities for Convention Registration ....................22 Hotel Reservations ..............................25 a classroom setting and kitchen. Lunch was DSC Foundation ...................................27 provided for both kids and parents. Trophy Awards .....................................28 At their top-notch trap shooting facility, the DSC 100 Photos ....................................28 chapter held a youth clinic for the kids that chose Obituary ..................................................29 to stay and participate after the hunter ed course Texas Game Warden Graduation....30 was completed. Instructors took each of the kids DSC New Mexico Gala ......................31 one by one to the trap shooting range and taught Happy Hill Farm ....................................32 them proper shooting techniques. They live-fired After a youth Hunter Ed course, DSC Heartland held a Membership Drive ...............................33 12- and 20-gauge shotguns multiple times at clay clinic on the fundamentals of shotgun shooting. Weatherby Foundation ......................34 pigeons. Many targets were hit by the first-time Wildlife Conservation Camp .............36 shooters, putting smiles on the faces of all the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DSC 100 Meeting .................................38 kids, parents and grandparents present. New Member Dinner..........................39 Reloading ...............................................40 Obituary ..................................................42 New Members .....................................43 Member Bulletin Board .....................44 Thanks to DSC Heartland, 42 new certified hunters are ready to enjoy their heritage. www.biggame.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/dallassafariclub UPCOMING Meetings Twitter: RSVP: members.biggame.org DSC Media @DSCNEWSCENTER Monthly Meetings are $35 per person, $45 day of event and for walk-ins Dallas Safari Club @officialdsc SEPTEMBER 20 OCTOBER 18 NOVEMBER 15 Instagram: Larry Weishuhn Blake Barnett Shane Mahoney @officialdsc Double Tree Galleria Royal Oaks Country Club Hilton DFW Lakes 4099 Valley View Ln 7915 Greenville Ave 1800 TX-26 Farmers Branch, TX 75244 Dallas, TX 75231 Grapevine, TX 76051 CampTalk LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT CAMP TALK PRODUCTION STAFF Jay Ann Cox, PhD, Publisher & Editor in Chief Karrie Kolesar, News Editor Terri Lewis, Associate Editor The Outdoor “Classroom” Terry Blauwkamp, Reloading Editor Cameron Kuenzer, Social Media Manager Kathy Gunnels, Art & Production n this issue of Camp Talk, you will find a few articles highlighting outdoor Chuck Cole, Art & Production education. There’s a story on the cover about kids who participated in hunter ed Nieman Printing, Printing & Distribution Safari Classics Productions, Online Media Services Iand trap shooting with DSC Heartland. There is a story from the Wildlife Society’s conservation camp in West Texas, and one about the recent successful youth event DSC STAFF Administrative by Trinity Oaks Foundation. Even the Game Warden class graduation shows the Corey Mason, Executive Director Barri Murphy, Executive Assistant/Grants Coordinator other end of the outdoor education spectrum. All of these activities are in some Jennifer Italiano, Receptionist way, large or small, funded and supported by DSC as a part of our mission. Auctions Lori Stanford, Auctions Manager Why? Because any outdoors enthusiast knows there is something magical about Chapter Development being outside. People who spend time outside understand why it is important to Kim Rappleye, Development/Management Corporate Sponsors practice wise use of natural resources, why hunting and fishing matter, and more Kamille Martin, Corporate Sponsors/Convention Events importantly, why hunters, anglers and outdoorsy people care. There is something Events Crystal Allison, Events Manager wonderful and irreplaceable outside – it cannot be manufactured or packaged. We Exhibits must protect and conserve that! Terri Lewis, Exhibits Manager Tatiane Brazil Upton, Exhibits Assistant I included the Game Warden graduation to highlight a couple of things. For Publications Jay Ann Cox, PhD, Director of Publications & Media one, every one of those cadets, now peace officers, serving our state started out as Karrie Kolesar, News Editor/Awards Coordinator a kid in the outdoors. If you polled them, you might find one or two of them who For advertising opportunities and rates, contact came to love the outdoors late in life, but to the last person, they love the outdoors Jay, [email protected], (972) 980-9800 so much that they have committed their careers to protecting our wild spaces, OFFICERS 2018-2019 our wildlife and the people who enjoy it. That level of commitment cannot be Karl Evans, President Craig Nyhus, Immediate Past President bought! The second reason is somehow a secret but shouldn’t be – DSC pays the Scott Tobermann, President-Elect life insurance premiums for game wardens in Texas. Next time you talk to a game John Eads, Treasurer Rebecca Evans, Secretary warden, ask them if they know that. Some don’t! September 15 is the S.A.F.E.T.Y. Extravaganza that DSC sponsors for students DIRECTORS 2016-2019 2017-2020 2018-2021 in the Outdoor Adventures program in surrounding area schools. The Outdoors Charlie Barnes Tori Nayfa Amy Callender Tomorrow Foundation is another of the organizations funded by DSC as part Mark Little John Patterson Ravin Reddy Jim Tolson Vacant Bob Scott of our mission to promote outdoor education. Our volunteers love this event so much and show up again and again, every year. If you read this article online VICE PRESIDENTS Tim Danklef David Hood Michael Vernone before Sept. 13, you may still have time to join us at Greystone Castle as a Ken Heard Daniel McGehee volunteer. Contact Events Manager Crystal Allison, [email protected], for more APHA LIAISON info. David Oakes I look forward to seeing members old and new at the steady slate of activities CHAPTERS LIAISON throughout the fall – monthly meetings, DSC 100 meetings, etc. Come up and say Tim Gafford hello! Bring a friend! Show them what DSC is all about. CONSERVATION SOCIETY LIAISON Cameron Kuenzer DSC-PAC CHAIR M. Lance Phillips GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ADVISOR Steve Weinberg Karl Evans, DSC President 13709 Gamma Road • Dallas, TX 75244 USA Phone 972-980-9800 • Fax 972-980-9925 Email: [email protected] • Website: biggame.org Advertising inquiries, letters and stories are welcome. Dallas Safari Club reserves the right not to publish, or to edit for content and length. The views expressed in Camp Talk are expressly those of the author and are not necessarily those of Dallas Safari Club, its members, employees or assigns. BIGGAME.ORG SEPTEMBER 2018 | 1 CONTINUED FROM COVER The chapter members most responsible for this event were Chuck Kopocis, a certified instructor for Nebraska Game and Parks, also the secretary for the chapter, Rick Allely chapter director-at-large, and Tom Kroll, a member of DSC Heartland. Forty kids and two parents took the class. When the test results were announced, all had passed and were given a big round of applause. All are now ready to continue the hunting heritage. A great addition to this event was the Sensory Safari trailer, on loan from the Iowa SCI chapter to help promote youth education. CT Instructors taught shotgun skills by shooting trap. 2 | DALLAS SAFARI CLUB NEWS BIGGAME.ORG GRANTS IN ACTION Outdoor Youth Event in South Texas hat if there was a youth shooting and outdoors day, and no one showed Wup? Fortunately, Trinity Oaks Foundation has never had that problem. In fact, they were faced with the opposite! In July, Trinity Oaks opened up registration for their youth shooting and angling event. Modeling their event on similar activities to DSC’s S.A.F.E.T.Y. Extravaganza, they thought they would get some interest and probably fill up the roster with 50 kids, maybe. To everyone’s pleasant surprise, the roster topped 142 by the time kids and parents began showing up for the Saturday event. With plenty of cool water and warm Demonstrating the sight picture and the encouragement, the hot July day was filled trigger squeeze, this volunteer may be with big smiles, excited whoop-whoops putting this youngster on the road to a lifetime of great shooting and hunting. and loads of fun. The venue, Bexar County Community Shooting Center, was able to accommodate everything including a pool full of catfish to catch, BBQ grills for the hamburger and hot dog free lunch, five stations, and a big shade tent. Guest speakers filled in at the cool-down breaks, from game wardens to game meat sampling to deer rattling with Larry Weishuhn, co-host of “DSC’s Trailing the Hunter’s Moon” on Most of the volunteers are expert marksmen Pursuit Channel. CT who gave pro tips to budding young nimrods. Larry Weishuhn enthralled the kids with deer behavior during the rut, and why rattling works. “Show