DSC NEWSLETTER VOLUME 31,Camp ISSUE 9 TalkOCTOBER 2018 Artist of the Year and Capstick Award Winners Announced The Capstick Award he Peter Hathaway Capstick Hunting Heritage Award Committee IN THIS ISSUE T has selected Bill and Suzie Brewster as the 2019 Award Recipients. Letter from the President .....................1 The Brewsters will be presented with the prestigious award at the DSC Hunting Moments ..................................2 Convention and Expo, Mogambo, at the Saturday evening banquet on The Power of Social Media ................4 Jan. 19, 2019. Auction Donations .................................5 To pay tribute to Peter H. Capstick, award recipients show long-term Membership Drive ...............................18 support and commitment to our hunting heritage through various S.A.F.E.T.Y. Thank You ..........................20 avenues such as education, humanitarian causes, hunting involvement, Hunt Report ...........................................22 and giving. Convention Registration ....................28 This year’s award winners, Bill and Suzie Brewster, epitomize these values and set a fine example as stewards of our hunting heritage, due to Bill and Suzie Brewster when Hotel Reservations ..............................29 Suzie won the DSC Outstanding Happy Hill Farm ....................................30 both their individual accomplishments and combined dedication. Hunting Achievement Award in Texas Elections Matter ......................32 DSC Executive Director Corey Mason said, “The Brewsters are role 2016. Trophy Awards .....................................34 models in the very best ways, for their citizenship and service to our Trophy Room Tour ................................34 country, for their tireless work that comes from their deeply held values, and for their constant engagement DSC Voted Member of FACE ............35 with the hunting world. In a time when it might be easier to bend and sway with political winds, Bill and Expanded Hunting and Fishing ........36 Suzie have stood firm for hunting and conservation. It just doesn’t get any better than that!” DSC Dove Hunt .....................................38 See the full release on the Brewsters in Fall Game Trails or on the DSC News Center. Hunting Laws Under Reform ............39 Grizzly Hunt Cancellation ...................39 Reloading ...............................................40 Artist of the Year New Members .....................................42 n a first for DSC, sculptor Raj Paul has been selected as the Artist of the Member Bulletin Board .....................44 Year for the 2019 Convention, Mogambo: Dagga Boy Danger. IRaj Paul is a longtime donor and exhibitor with DSC, going back 16 years to the first work done for DSC – the Peter Hathaway Capstick Hunting Heritage Award. Paul works primarily in bronze casts and has created many pieces over the years for DSC’s awards program as well as imaginative work that he has donated to the live and silent auctions. Paul says, “The inspiration for my art comes from nature. Just like in landscape design, I find it very exhilarating to have an image of a beautiful garden or a sculpture in my mind and then recreate it in living form and have the result as I had imagined and hoped.” Raj has donated some gorgeous pieces that will be featured in the upcoming auctions at Mogambo. His work will also be showcased on the cover of the Convention issue of Game Trails, due to hit mailboxes around December 10, 2018. 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You Nieman Printing, Printing & Distribution Safari Classics Productions, Online Media Services Iprobably started out hunting because someone invited you along. Remember how great that felt, to be shown a world you had wondered about but had not yet DSC STAFF Administrative experienced? It’s the best! Corey Mason, Executive Director Barri Murphy, Executive Assistant/Grants Coordinator Hunters who have satisfied a lot of that urge to hunt, ticked things off a list, Jennifer Italiano, Receptionist added a few stamps to the passport begin to look around them and think of who Auctions Lori Stanford, Auctions Manager they could take with them on the next hunt. Spouse, son, daughter, grandkid, Chapter Development neighbors, neighbor kids… it doesn’t matter. Seeing the thrill of a beginner is as Kim Rappleye, Development/Management Corporate Sponsors exciting to a seasoned hunter, if not more than hunting on their own. Kamille Martin, Corporate Sponsors/Convention Events I was thinking the other day that becoming part of DSC is pretty much the same Events Crystal Allison, Events Manager process. Someone invites you to attend a monthly meeting, or go to the show, and Exhibits you quickly learn about a world you’ve never quite seen before. You volunteer to Terri Lewis, Exhibits Manager Tatiane Brazil Upton, Exhibits Assistant learn more, and soon, you are spending a good portion of your week volunteering Publications Jay Ann Cox, PhD, Director of Publications & Media for DSC! Karrie Kolesar, News Editor/Awards Coordinator Of course there are many different ways to engage with DSC and its members. For advertising opportunities and rates, contact A weekly commitment isn’t necessary to get the benefits of camaraderie and Jay, [email protected], (972) 980-9800 dedication to the mission. At the S.A.F.E.T.Y. Extravaganza last month, we saw OFFICERS 2018-2019 some of our friends who come out once a year, like clockwork, to volunteer. Same Karl Evans, President Craig Nyhus, Immediate Past President with the convention—it’s a big reunion of friends, some we’ve seen throughout the Scott Tobermann, President-Elect year, some only at the show. John Eads, Treasurer Rebecca Evans, Secretary This is the best part of DSC, for many of us—the DSC 100. That network of friends who provide the personal touch makes a huge difference in the outcome. DIRECTORS 2016-2019 2017-2020 2018-2021 People flock to our show, exhibitors are delighted, and the money to drive our Charlie Barnes Tori Nayfa Amy Callender mission and programs is raised. Whether you are an every-week volunteer, or a Mark Little John Patterson Ravin Reddy Jim Tolson Michael Vernone Bob Scott once-a-year, or somewhere in between, we need every minute of every volunteer hour to make DSC the unique organization it is. VICE PRESIDENTS Tim Danklef David Hood Daniel McGehee So, sign up for a shift at the show, come to a monthly meeting, bid on an auction Ken Heard James Jeanes item, invite a friend to come with you, go hunting. All of these are great ways to APHA LIAISON support DSC. My personal thanks goes to everyone who does. You make this club David Oakes great. CHAPTERS LIAISON Tim Gafford CONSERVATION SOCIETY LIAISON Cameron Kuenzer DSC-PAC CHAIR M. Lance Phillips Karl Evans, DSC President GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ADVISOR Steve Weinberg 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 OCTOBER 2018 | 1 HUNTING MOMENTS My Cousin Bob BY MONTY HUDSON, DSC LIFE MEMBER have three friends named Bob, and I gear to supply a Carrier Battle Group on Somehow we managed to navigate our am convinced that none of the three a seven-month deployment. They had way to camp in Namibia, and the hunting isI playing with a complete deck. This is a apparently unloaded a Cabela’s warehouse was nothing short of superb. Every hunt, story about Bob No. 1. and had two of everything but hand every safari is special, but sharing the Bob and his twin brother Richard are grenades. Their baggage filled the eight- experience with family who are seeing actually my cousins who accompanied my foot bed of my Ford F-350. An hour later, Africa for the first time is a gift I will brother Mike and me on a plains game we had the bags paired down to a heavy always cherish. If you haven’t done it, do safari to Namibia. The twins are lifelong but acceptable level and began our epic it now. Find an outfitter and book your outdoorsmen and terrific marksmen, journey. safari. There is no try. There is no maybe and they have hunted and fished together In Atlanta, we checked our bags and next year. You are going to croak with since leaving the womb. They can knit a rifles for the long flight to Johannesburg money in the bank and vacation time cast net or cast to a largemouth that I can’t and hustled to security. Bob was uneasy, on the books. A number of exceptional even see with equal skill. They steal each clearly reluctant to take off his belt, telling hunters have said, “Life is short, hunt other’s food, drinks and ammunition.